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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 731-733Publisher
MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2002.0105
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We report that polycrystalline cubic-Si3N4 with a spinel structure and low oxygen concentration (<0.5 wt%) shows Vickers hardness of 43 GPa when measured with the indentation load of 10 mN. The hardness decreases with the increase of the indentation load, which can be ascribed to the presence of weak grain boundaries. The high hardness can be well explained by its large shear modulus as predicted by first-principles calculations.
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