Today, the price of building a factory to produce submicron size electronic devices on 300
mm Si wafers is over billions of dollars. In processing a 300 mm Si wafer, over half of the …

The continuing trend of miniaturizing materials in many modern technological applications
has led to a strong demand for understanding the complex mechanical properties of …

A new facility for microdiffraction strain measurements and microfluorescence mapping has
been built on beamline 12.3. 2 at the advanced light source of the Lawrence Berkeley …

The use of external electric and magnetic fields for the synthesis and processing of inorganic
materials such as metals and ceramics has seen renewed interest in recent years …

The rapid evolution of flexible electronic devices promises to revolutionize numerous fields
by expanding the applications of smart devices. Nevertheless, despite this vast potential, the …

Plastic deformation was observed in damascene Cu interconnect test structures during an in
situ electromigration experiment and before the onset of visible microstructural damage …

In recent years, the mechanical behavior of low-dimensional materials has been attracting
lots of attention triggered both by the ongoing miniaturization and the extraordinary …

Characterizing irradiation damage in materials utilized in light water reactors is critical for
both material development and application reliability. Here we use both nanoindentation …

The literature has accumulated plenty of interesting findings of electromigration-induced
phenomena in pure Sn. Most of the researches revealed the thermodynamically steady …

MicroLaue diffraction combines the oldest x-ray diffraction method–Laue diffraction–with the
most modern x-ray sources, optics and detectors. The combination can resolve complex …