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- Title
CYCLIC NANOINDENTATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR AND METAL THIN FILMS.
- Authors
FANG, TE-HUA; CHANG, WIN-JIN; LIN, CHAO-MING; CHANG, CHUN-CHIN
- Abstract
The nanoindentation technique was used to measure the hardness and Young's modulus of semiconductor and metal thin films on a Si(100) substrate under cyclic loading. The results showed that in all instances and at a constant cyclic load that the loading curves overlapped the previous unloading curve and had a small displacement after each cyclic nanoindentation. It was observed that the plastic energies of metal materials from the first loading–unloading cycle were much larger than that observed in semiconductor materials. Furthermore, the hardness and Young's modulus of the thin films decreased when the number of cyclic nanoindentations was increased. The effect of the cyclic loading on the hardness and Young's modulus of semiconductor material was much larger than that of the metal material. Young's modulus, the hardness and the contact stiffness of thin films conform to the relationship that Young's modulus was proportional to the contact stiffness and the square root of the thin film's hardness.
- Subjects
THIN films; SOLID state electronics; PROPERTIES of matter; SEMICONDUCTORS; ELASTICITY
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics B: Condensed Matter Physics; Statistical Physics; Applied Physics, 2009, Vol 23, Issue 30, p5639
- ISSN
0217-9792
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0217979209053643