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EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS
卷 43, 期 3, 页码 256-268出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/BF02410524
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thin films; nanomaterials; experimental techniques; fracture; size effects
The mechanical properties of ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) thin films were measured using microcantilever deflection and membrane deflection techniques. Bending tests on several free-standing UNCD cantilevers, 0.5 mum thick, 20 mum wide and 80 mum long, yielded elastic modulus values of 916-959 GPa. The tests showed good reproducibility by repeated testing on the same cantilever and by testing several cantilevers of different lengths. The largest source of error in the method was accurate measurement of film thickness. Elastic modulus measurements performed with the novel membrane deflection experiment (MDE), developed by Espinosa and co-workers, gave results similar to those from the microcantilever-based tests. Tests were performed on UNCD specimens grown by both micro and nano wafer-seeding techniques. The elastic modulus was measured to be between 930-970 GPa for the microseeding and between 945-963 GPa for the nanoseeding technique. The MDE test also provided the fracture strength, which for UNCD was found to vary from 0.89 to 2.42 GPa for the microseeded samples and from 3.95 to 5.03 for the nanoseeded samples. The narrowing of the elastic modulus variation and major increase in fracture strength is believed to result from a reduction in surface roughness, less stress concentration, when employing the nanoseeding technique. Although both methods yielded reliable values of elastic modulus, the MDE was found to be more versatile since it yielded additional information about the structure and material properties, such as strength and initial stress state.
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