Standard nanoindentation tests are “high throughput” compared to nearly all other
mechanical tests, such as tension or compression. However, the typical rates of tens of tests …

Nanoparticles are commonly used in various fields of applications such as electronics,
catalysis or engineering where they can be subjected to a certain amount of stress leading …

Nanoindentation has become a commonplace tool for the measurement of mechanical
properties at small scales, but may have even greater importance as a technique for …

Abstract High-entropy alloys (HEAs), although often presumed to be random solid solutions,
have recently been shown to display nanometer-scale variations in the arrangements of …

In nanoscale contact experiments, it is generally believed that the shear stress at the onset
of plasticity can approach the theoretical shear strength of an ideal, defect-free lattice,,,, a …

In the present work we investigate the mechanical properties of multiple slip oriented single
crystal Cu (100) compression samples to shed light on size-dependent yield and hardening …

Nanocrystalline materials offer very high strength but are typically limited in their strain to
failure, and efforts to improve deformability in these materials are usually found to be at the …

The recent interest in size-dependent deformation of micro-and nanoscale materials has
paralleled both technological miniaturization and advancements in imaging and small-scale …

Individual nanoparticles of silicon and titanium having diameters in the range of 40–140 nm
have been repeatedly compressed by a nanoindenter. Even at low loads, the small tip …

Slowly compressed microcrystals deform via intermittent slip events, observed as
displacement jumps or stress drops. Experiments often use one of two loading modes: an …