Evaluating the effects of pillar shape and gallium ion beam damage on the mechanical properties of single crystal aluminum nanopillars

Y Yang, SY Wang, B Xiang, S Yin, TC Pekin… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Springer
… -focused ion beam (FIB) milling from a bulk sample. During the FIB process, the choice of the
pillar shape and the energy of the Ga ions can significantly impact the … of micropillars in the …

[PDF][PDF] Exploring Plasticity and Size Effects in Diamond-structured Crystals at Micro-scales using Micromechanics

M Chen - 2019 - research-collection.ethz.ch
… The decreasing size dependence in BCC micropillars is due to the restricted mobility of the
… previous micromechanical testing is the surface damage from focused ion beam (FIB) milling. …

Orientation selected micro-pillar compression behavior of heavy-ions irradiated RAFMs

Y Chen, C Zhang, Y Yang, Y Song, G Luo - Fusion Engineering and Design, 2023 - Elsevier
… of the fabricated micro-pillars. By utilizing a Ga … damage caused during the Focused Ion
Beam (FIB) milling procedure, a concluding polishing step utilizing a 2 keV gallium ion beam

[HTML][HTML] Size-dependent plasticity and activation parameters of lithographically-produced silicon micropillars

M Chen, J Wehrs, AS Sologubenko, J Rabier… - Materials & Design, 2020 - Elsevier
focused ion beam (FIB) plasticity has been observed. However, typical drawbacks of this
methodology are FIB-damage … number of <100>-oriented Si pillars with various diameters in the …

Focused ion beam-induced displacive phase transformation from austenite to martensite during fabrication of quenched and partitioned steel micro-pillar

EJ Seo, L Cho, JK Kim, J Mola, L Zhao, S Lee… - Journal of alloys and …, 2020 - Elsevier
micro-pillars by using a focused ion beam (FIB) technique. The BCC phase produced by the
FIB damage … scan of the surface with the Ga + ion beam. Use of a low acceleration voltage …

[HTML][HTML] Achieving micron-scale plasticity and theoretical strength in Silicon

M Chen, L Pethö, AS Sologubenko, H Ma… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
… testing is the effect of surface damage from focused ion beam (FIB) … beam diffraction conditions
in the small volumes of the 0.5 μm pillars, because the region of interest in the micropillar

[HTML][HTML] Effect of ion irradiation introduced by focused ion-beam milling on the mechanical behaviour of sub-micron-sized samples

J Liu, R Niu, J Gu, M Cabral, M Song, X Liao - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
… The development of xenon plasma focused ion-beam (Xe + PFIB) milling … focused ion-beam
(Ga + FIB) technique. As such, the effect of higher beam currents and the heavier ions

In situ micro-pillar compression to examine radiation-induced hardening mechanisms of FeCrAl alloys

Y Cui, E Aydogan, JG Gigax, Y Wang, A Misra… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
… A focused ion beam (FIB) mill with 30 keV Ga + ions was used to etch the micropillar … current
of 50 pA and a voltage of 5 keV, in which FIB-induced damage is minimized. An FEI Tecnai …

[HTML][HTML] Deformation behavior of aluminum pillars produced by Xe and Ga focused ion beams: Insights from strain rate jump tests

Y Xiao, V Maier-Kiener, J Michler, R Spolenak… - Materials & Design, 2019 - Elsevier
… Micro-compression testing of focused ion beam … Al micropillars, which was attributed to
Ga segregation at GBs [59]. In this work, the same deformed and cross-sectioned micropillars

… Micro-Tensile Specimens Using Plasma-Focused Ion Beam and Femtosecond Laser Ablation and Investigation of the Size Effect Phenomenon Through Mechanical …

B Huang - 2023 - macsphere.mcmaster.ca
… The fabrication routes studied in this thesis project use the combination of the fs-laser and
plasma focused ion beam (PFIB) to machine the micro-tensile specimens. (100) single crystal …