Publication
Title
A versatile lab-on-chip test platform to characterize elementary deformation mechanisms and electromechanical couplings in nanoscopic objects
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Abstract
A nanomechanical on-chip test platform has recently been developed to deform under a variety of loading conditions freestanding thin films, ribbons and nanowires involving submicron dimensions. The lab-on-chip involves thousands of elementary test structures from which the elastic modulus, strength, strain hardening, fracture, creep properties can be extracted. The technique is amenable to in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) investigations to unravel the fundamental underlying deformation and fracture mechanisms that often lead to size-dependent effects in small-scale samples. The method allows addressing electrical and magnetic couplings as well in order to evaluate the impact of large mechanical stress levels on different solid-state physics phenomena. We had the chance to present this technique in details to Jacques Friedel in 2012 who, unsurprisingly, made a series of critical and very relevant suggestions. In the spirit of his legacy, the paper will address both mechanics of materials related phenomena and couplings with solids state physics issues.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Comptes rendus : physique / Académie des sciences. - Paris, 2002, currens
Publication
Paris : Elsevier , 2016
ISSN
1631-0705 [print]
1878-1535 [online]
DOI
10.1016/J.CRHY.2015.11.005
Volume/pages
17 :3-4 (2016) , p. 485-495
ISI
000373524300020
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
Understanding nanocrystalline mechanical behaviour from structural investigations.
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Web of Science
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Creation 07.01.2016
Last edited 09.10.2023
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