Measurement of Young's modulus of anisotropic materials using microcompression testing

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 27, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 2752-2759

  Choia, In Suk ^a,b   Gan, Yixiang ^a,c   Kaufmann, Daniel ^a   Kraft, Oliver ^a   Schwaiger, Ruth ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MATERIAL; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; INDENTATION MODULUS; MICROCOMPRESSION; SINGLE CRYSTALLINE SILICON; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SUBSTRATE DEFORMATION; SYSTEMATIC FRAMEWORK; THEORETICAL VALUES; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ASPECT RATIO; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY;

ELASTIC MODULI;

EID: 84868555121     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2012.18     Document Type: Article

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