Anisotropy dependence of material removal and deformation mechanisms during nanoscratch of gallium nitride single crystals on (0001) plane

C Li, Y Piao, B Meng, Y Zhang, L Li, F Zhang - Applied Surface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Gallium nitride single crystal (GaN) is difficult to achieve high-efficiency and low-damage
machining due to anisotropy, high hardness and brittleness. Nanoscratch tests of GaN …

Effects of surface texturing on nanotribological properties and subsurface damage of monocrystalline GaN subjected to scratching investigated using molecular …

J Guo, J Chen, Y Lin, Z Liu, Y Wang - Applied Surface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Surface nanotribological properties and subsurface damage of flat and textured gallium
nitride (GaN) substrates during both linear and circular nanoscratching processes are …

Unveiling the effect of crystal orientation on gallium nitride cutting through MD simulation

Y Wang, S Zhang, H Xia, Y Wu, H Huang - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Gallium nitride (GaN) is a hard and brittle single crystal and shaping it into thin substrates for
semiconductor applications is challenging. The quality of the machined surface can vary …

Temperature effect on mechanical response of c-plane monocrystalline gallium nitride in nanoindentation: A molecular dynamics study

J Guo, J Chen, Y Wang - Ceramics International, 2020 - Elsevier
A series of three-dimensional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations was performed to
investigate the effect of temperature on the nanoscale deformation behaviour and …

Effects of initial temperature on the damage of GaN during nanogrinding

C Zhang, X Guo, S Yuan, Z Dong, R Kang - Applied Surface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics (MD) were utilized to explore the damage of gallium nitride (GaN) in
nanogrinding at a wide range of initial temperature (100–1000 K). The focus is on the …

The deformation mechanism of gallium-faces and nitrogen-faces gallium nitride during nanogrinding

C Zhang, Z Dong, S Zhang, X Guo, S Yuan, Z Jin… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the deformation mechanism of gallium-faces (Ga-faces) and nitrogen-faces (N-
faces) gallium nitride (GaN) during nanogrinding were investigated by molecular dynamics …

[HTML][HTML] Progress in indentation test for material characterization: A systematic review

X Li, M Wang, L Xu, T Xu, W Wu, S Pan, C Wang… - Results in Surfaces and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Indentation test is a powerful method of material characterization for measuring and
extracting mechanical properties at small scales with a long history and wide range of …

Dependence of tribological behavior of GaN crystal on loading direction: a molecular dynamics study

Y Qian, S Deng, F Shang, Q Wan, Y Yan - Journal of Applied Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
In order to investigate the tribological property of the gallium nitride (GaN) crystal at the
nanoscale, a series of molecular dynamics nanoscratch simulations are carried out on the …

Effect of indenter radius on mechanical properties of B3-GaN in nanoindentation based on molecular dynamics

Y Li, X Yang, J Deng, N Peng - Materials Today Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of nanoindentation was conducted to study the
indentation of sphalerite gallium nitride (B3-GaN) according to different radius spherical …

Indenter radius effect on mechanical response of a-(11–20), c-(0001), and m-(-1100) plane GaN single crystals in nanoindentation: A molecular dynamics study

R Li, G Wu, K Liang, S Wang, L Xue, Y Sun… - Materials Science in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation was used to systemically investigate the
nanoindentation process of GaN. Different loading orientations and indenter radii were …