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Nanoindentation on Contamination-Free gold Films Using the Atomic Force Microscope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

D. M. Schaefer  and
R. Reifenberger
D. M. Schaefer
Affiliation:
Purdue University, Department of Physics, W. Lafayette IN 47907
R. Reifenberger
Affiliation:
Purdue University, Department of Physics, W. Lafayette IN 47907
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Abstract

Nanoindentation experiments on high quality Au films were performed in vacuum using an atomic force microscope. In these experiments, elastic behavior was observed until loading forces greater than ∼ 20 nN were applied. For loads larger than this, systematic changes in the jump-to-contact, loading/unloading and lift-off regions of the data occur. These observations are consistent with a transition from elastic to inelastic behavior during indentation.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 332: Symposium U – Determining Nanoscale Physical Properties of Materials by Microscopy and Spectroscopy , 1994 , 225
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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