Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 59, Issue 5, Pages 1924-1933Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2010.11.057
Keywords
Multilayers; Twinning; Nanoindentation; Transmission electron microscopy (TEM); Sputtering
Funding
- NSF-DMR [0644835]
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We report on the synthesis of highly (1 1 1) and (1 0 0) textured Cu/Ni multilayers with individual layer thicknesses, h, varying from 1 to 200 nm. When, h, decreases to 5 nm or less, X-ray diffraction spectra show epitaxial growth of Cu/Ni multilayers. High resolution transmission electron microscopy studies show the coexistence of nanotwins and coherent layer interfaces in highly (1 1 1) textured Cu/Ni multilayers with smaller h. Hardnesses of multilayer films increase with decreasing h, approach a maximum at h of a few nanometers, and show softening thereafter at smaller h. The influence of layer interfaces as well as twin interfaces on strengthening mechanisms of multilayers and the formation of twins in Ni in multilayers are discussed. (c) 2010 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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