Recent advancements and some emerging trends in the methods and instruments used for
surface and near surface characterisation are presented, considering the measurement of …

Experiments have shown that nanoindentation unloading curves obtained with Berkovich
triangular pyramidal indenters are usually welldescribed by the power-law relation P= α (h …

This article presents an attempt to explain in a simple way, understandable to a broad
spectrum of readers, the unusual combination of the mechanical properties of the recently …

Residual stress in a thin film was analyzed by the nanoindentation technique. Two dominant
effects of residual stress to indentation were summarized as the slope change in loading …

The mechanical properties and atomic bond structure of Si incorporated into tetrahedral
amorphous carbon (ta-C) films were investigated. The films were deposited by a filtered …

A new method is described to measure the in situ residual stress state in a thin fixed-fixed
beam structure used in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The methodology can be …

Nanoindentation, a modern technique for investigation of mechanical properties of materials
using a modified scanning force microscope (SEM), has been employed to examine two …

A series of molecular dynamics simulations has been performed to study high-speed
nanoindentation of a hard pyramidal tip into Al substrates. The effects of several process …

Using a novel organo-metallic chemical vapor deposition plasma immersion ion processing
technique, titanium carbo-nitride (Ti–C–N) coatings were deposited from an organo-metallic …

Residual stress is a dominant obstacle to efficient production and safe usage of device by
deteriorating the mechanical strength and failure properties. Therefore, we proposed a new …