Piezoelectric inertia motors—also known as stick-slip motors or (smooth) impact drives—use
the inertia of a body to drive it in small steps by means of an uninterrupted friction contact. In …

Tribology is the study of interactions between surfaces or interfaces in relative motion
(“tribos” means “to rub” in Greek). It includes the phenomena of friction, adhesion, and wear …

The introduction of scanning/transmission electron microscopes (S/TEM) with sub‐Angstrom
resolution as well as fast and sensitive detection solutions support direct observation of …

In situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) nanomechanical testing has benefited from a
number of recent technical developments related to both how deformation is imaged and …

Recent advances in instrumentation for transmission electron microscopy have pushed the
resolution limit, leading to remarkable instruments capable of imaging at 0.5 Å. But, when …

With the ongoing trend of miniaturizing electronic devices, the dimensions of metallic
materials used in these devices decrease continuously from sub-microns to a few …

From the first observation of moving dislocations in 1956 to the latest developments of piezo-
actuated sample holders and direct electron sensing cameras in modern transmission …

Probing mechanical properties in the micrometer regime is of current interest in materials
science. A focused ion beam microscope was employed to fabricate miniaturized …

The purpose of this article is to present the design and capabilities of two in situ scanning
electron microscope (SEM) indentation instruments covering a large load range from μN to …

Fig. 1 demonstrates our fully quantitative approach 2. The loaddisplacement curve (Fig. 1a)
corresponds to a single load-unload cycle of a Berkovich-geometry indenter on a submicron …