Micro milling cutters or micro mills are unique and important micro tools for fabricating
miniaturised devices with sufficient geometrical and dimensional accuracy and machined …

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are evolving multi-component metallic systems, wherein
generally five or more principal elements tend to provide strong solid-solution strengthening …

The development of xenon plasma focused ion-beam (Xe+ PFIB) milling technique enables
site-specific sample preparation with milling rates several times larger than the conventional …

Heat input is one of the most important process parameters during additive manufacturing
(AM). It is of great significance to understand the effect of heat input on the microstructure …

The development of sputtered coatings with improved hardness-toughness property
combination is widely sought after. Multi-element ceramic carbide (Hf-Nb-Ta-Zr) C coatings …

In the past two decades, small-scale mechanical testing has become ubiquitous for
mechanical measurements, offering new opportunities to quantitatively probe the …

Focused ion beam (FIB) milling is an increasingly popular technique for fabricating micro-
sized samples for nanomechanical characterization. Previous investigations have cautioned …

Multi-principal element (MPE) alloys, sometimes also known as high entropy, complex
concentration or multicomponent alloys, have attracted significant attention due to their …

Physical vapour deposition combined with atomic layer deposition was exploited to design a
model system of UFG aluminium with a narrow grain size and shape distribution, including …

We introduce a new nanoindentation method to continuously measure the hardness while
sweeping through orders of magnitudes of strain rates within a single experiment. While …