… of the different FIB induced defects on the plasticity of micropillars. In summary, the effect
on plasticity of FIB induced damage during the fabrication process of micropillars was examined…

… used to fabricate micropillars to study small-scale plasticity and size effects in uniaxial … To
investigate the effects of FIB damage on mechanical behavior, we tested Mo-alloy micropillars …

… Assuming that Ga ion beam induced damage was introduced in all the NWs tested, we tried
to roughly estimate the Young's modulus, E 2 , of damaged layer from the calculation based …

… 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. …

… ., 2007) have also shown that most of the ion induced damage is driven out of Ni crystals
during … to the ion beam inside a FIB workstation to study the effect of the ion-irradiation induced …

… -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 …

… For the given number of applied Ga+ ions, the number of implanted ions for microparticles
is … that of micropillars. Thus, our microparticle might be more damaged than the micropillar. …

… Compression experiments were performed using a nanoindenter with a flat-ended punch
on aluminum micro-pillars fabricated by focused-ion beam milling. The flow process was jerky …

… [1–4] HIM has several advantages, when compared with the widely used gallium ion microscope
(often cited as focused ion beam, FIB) for the fabrication and examination of micropillars…

… 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 …