This review covers areas where our understanding of the mechanisms underlying
nanoindentation has been increased by atomistic studies of the nanoindentation process …

Dislocation-mediated plasticity in inorganic semiconductors and oxides has attracted
increasing research interest because of the promising mechanical and functional properties …

Nanoindentation technique at low temperatures have developed from initial micro-hardness
driving method at a single temperature to modern depth-sensing indentation (DSI) method …

Silicon has such versatile characteristics that the mechanical behavior and deformation
mechanism under contact load are still unclear and hence are interesting and challenging …

Understanding the mechanical properties of α-quartz is of vital importance to rock
engineering because α-quartz is the main component of igneous, metamorphic and …

Potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) is an important nonlinear material due to its
excellent physical and optical properties. However, it is also a difficult-to-machine material …

We performed molecular dynamics simulations for the nanoindentation on (001),(110) and
(111) surfaces of a single crystal diamond (SCD) to investigate the orientation-dependence …

This paper investigates the influence of the surface orientation of TiN and Al layers, as well
as TiN layer thickness on the deformation behavior and mechanical characteristic of TiN/Al …

A very interesting experimental finding shows that a nano-twinned cubic boron nitride (NT-
cBN) ceramic has size-dependent hardness. In order to reveal the hardening mechanism of …

Monocrystalline silicon (Si) undergoes complex phase transformations under external loads,
significantly affecting its performance and processing. In this study, molecular dynamics …