Influences of surface preparation on nanoindentation pop-in in single-crystal Mo Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Influences of surface preparation on the pop-in behavior of single-crystal Mo were examined in nanoindentation experiments. The Mo surface was prepared by electropolishing and then damaged in a controlled way by polishing with 0.05 m alumina. The damaged layer was systematically removed in steps by chemo-mechanical polishing with the pop-in behavior statistically characterized at each step. The observations show how the statistics of pop-in can be used as a sensitive indicator of the state of mechanical damage in very thin surface layers. 2011 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • Scripta Materialia

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Wang, Z., Bei, H., George, E. P., & Pharr, G. M.

citation count

  • 55

complete list of authors

  • Wang, Zhigang||Bei, H||George, EP||Pharr, GM

publication date

  • September 2011