Annealing Effects on the Structural Properties of FIB Prepared Cu Nanopillars-an in situ TEM study

D Kiener, Z Zhang, S Sturm, S Cazottes… - Microscopy and …, 2013 - cambridge.org
The unexpected mechanical size effects when reducing single crystal samples down to
several µm dimensions or below has attracted considerable interest over the last couple of …

Tensile deformation of electroplated copper nanopillars

AT Jennings, JR Greer - Philosophical Magazine, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The results are presented of uniaxial tensile testing of single crystalline electroplated copper
nanopillars with diameters between 75 nm and 165 nm fabricated without the use of a …

Microstructure versus Size: Mechanical Properties<? format?> of Electroplated Single Crystalline Cu Nanopillars

AT Jennings, MJ Burek, JR Greer - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
We report results of uniaxial compression experiments on single-crystalline Cu nanopillars
with nonzero initial dislocation densities produced without focused ion beam (FIB) …

Size Matters: size-dependent strength and nucleation-governed deformation mechanisms in nano-scale Cu pillars

J Greer - APS March Meeting Abstracts, 2011 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Uniaxial compression and tension tests on single crystalline micro and nanopillars have
revealed a strong size effect. For face-centered cubic metals, this size effect is characterized …

Microstructural and geometrical effects on the deformation behavior of sub-micron scale nanocrystalline copper pillars

DV Badami, Z Jahed, BB Seo, MJ Burek… - … Materials Transactions A, 2016 - Springer
The effects of microstructure, sample dimensions, and cross-sectional geometry on the
deformation characteristics of electroplated nanocrystalline copper sub-micron pillars are …

Advanced nanomechanics in the TEM: effects of thermal annealing on FIB prepared Cu samples

D Kiener, Z Zhang, S Šturm, S Cazottes… - Philosophical …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The effect of focused ion beam (FIB) fabrication on the mechanical properties of miniaturized
mechanical tests has recently been realized, but is not well documented. In this study, the …

Critical dimension for the dislocation structure in deformed copper micropillars

XX Zhao, J Wu, YL Chiu, IP Jones, R Gu, AHW Ngan - Scripta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Although the effect of specimen size on strength has been well documented for metal micro-
samples significantly larger than~ 1 μm, less is known about the deformation induced …

Effect of surface roughness on the deformation of micron-sized specimens of Cu

M Buechsenschuetz-Goebeler, CA Volkert - Verhandlungen der Deutschen …, 2009 - osti.gov
A variety of studies on deformed small scale metal specimens (100 nm to 10 {mu} m) have
shown that dislocation storage becomes rarer as the crystal size is decreased. This implies …

Investigation of geometrically necessary dislocation structures in compressed Cu micropillars by 3-dimensional HR-EBSD

S Kalácska, Z Dankházi, G Zilahi, X Maeder… - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mechanical testing of micropillars is a field that involves new physics, as the behaviour of
materials is non-deterministic at this scale. To better understand their deformation …

Influence of inclined twin boundaries on the deformation behavior of Cu micropillars

PJ Imrich, C Kirchlechner, G Dehm - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2015 - Elsevier
In situ micromechanical compression tests on Cu pillars were performed to evaluate the
influence of twin boundaries on the mechanical behavior. The 1 µm sized Cu samples on a …