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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 44, Issue 6, Pages 1755-1767Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2006.10.015
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thin film; X-ray microdiffraction; non-local stress/curvature relations
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The classical Stoney formula relating local equibiaxial film stress to local equibiaxial substrate curvature is not well equipped to handle realistic cases where the film misfit strain, the plate system curvature, and the film thickness and resulting film stress vary with in-plane position. In Part I of this work we have extended the Stoney formula to cover arbitrarily non-uniform film thickness for a thin film/substrate system subject to non-uniform, isotropic misfit strains. The film stresses are found to depend non-locally on system curvatures. In Part II we have designed a demanding experiment whose purpose is to validate the new analysis for the case of radially symmetric deformations. To achieve this, a circular film island with sharp edges and a radially variable, but known, thickness is deposited on the wafer center. The plate system's curvatures and the film stress distribution are independently measured by using white beam and monochromatic X-ray microdiffraction (mu XRD) measurements. respectively. The measured stress field (from monochromatic mu XRD) is compared to the predictions of various stress/curvature analyses, all of which have the white beam mu XRD measurements as input. The results reveal the shortcomings of the local Stoney approach and validate the accuracy of the new non-local relation. most notably near the film island edges where stress concentrations dominate. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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