Materials engineering for flexible metallic thin film applications

MJ Cordill, P Kreiml, C Mitterer - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
More and more flexible, bendable, and stretchable sensors and displays are becoming a
reality. While complex engineering and fabrication methods exist to manufacture flexible thin …

Materials mechanical size effects: a review

TT Zhu, AJ Bushby, DJ Dunstan - Materials Technology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Knowledge of the mechanical behaviour of materials is essential in materials
science and applied mechanics. At small sizes, this behaviour shows significant departures …

Synergistic effect of microstructure and defects on the initiation of fatigue cracks in additively manufactured Inconel 718

MS Dodaran, M Muhammad, N Shamsaei… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fatigue cracks in additively manufactured (AMed) Inconel 718 (IN-718) in machined surface
condition often initiate from persistent slip bands (PSBs) unlike other popular AM alloys such …

Length-scale-controlled fatigue mechanisms in thin copper films

GP Zhang, CA Volkert, R Schwaiger, P Wellner, E Arzt… - Acta Materialia, 2006 - Elsevier
Systematic investigations of fatigue damage and dislocation structures in thin Cu films with
different thicknesses (0.2–3.0 μm) and grain sizes (0.3–2.1 μm mean diameter) were carried …

Dislocation Evolution in Cyclic‐Loaded Cu Nanopillars with Different Configurations

X Li, Z Zhao, Z Zhang, X Shao, X An, S Wei, H Zhou… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Small‐sized metals generally exhibit unusual deformation responses subjected to cyclic
loading, since their limited volume cannot effectively accommodate micro‐sized dislocation …

Quantitative in situ TEM tensile fatigue testing on nanocrystalline metallic ultrathin films

E Hosseinian, ON Pierron - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
A unique technique to perform quantitative in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
fatigue testing on ultrathin films and nanomaterials is demonstrated. The technique relies on …

Fatigue of polymer-supported Ag thin films

GD Sim, Y Hwangbo, HH Kim, SB Lee, JJ Vlassak - Scripta Materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
The fatigue behavior of Ag films on polyethyleneterephthalate substrates was studied using
electrical resistance measurements. Scanning electron microscopy images showed two …

Micro-scale fatigue mechanisms in metals: Insights gained from small-scale experiments and discrete dislocation dynamics simulations

S Lavenstein, JA El-Awady - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
This review paper providing a comprehensive review of insights gained from cyclic loading
discrete dislocation dynamics simulations and micro-scale fatigue experiments on …

Effects of stretching and cycling on the fatigue behavior of polymer-supported Ag thin films

GD Sim, YS Lee, SB Lee, JJ Vlassak - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2013 - Elsevier
The fatigue behavior of silver films on polyethylene-terephthalate substrates is studied for
various levels of film thickness, pre-stretch, sample width, and applied strain range. Films …

Dislocation patterning in a two-dimensional continuum theory of dislocations

I Groma, M Zaiser, PD Ispánovity - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Understanding the spontaneous emergence of dislocation patterns during plastic
deformation is a long standing challenge in dislocation theory. During the past decades …