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Effects of Film Thickness on the Yielding Behavior of Polycrystalline Gold Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

H.D. Espinosa  and
B.C. Prorok
H.D. Espinosa
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208-3111, USA
B.C. Prorok
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208-3111, USA
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Abstract

A Membrane Deflection Experiment was used to test the mechanical response of freestanding thin film gold specimens. We present stress-strain curves obtained on films 0.3, 0.5 and 1.0 μm thick. Elastic modulus was consistently measured in the range of 53-55 GPa. Several size effects on the mecha nical properties were observed including yield stress variations with membrane width and film thickness. It was observed that thickness plays a key role in deformation behavior with a major transition in the material inelastic response occurring between a thickness of 0.5 and 1.0 μm. The size effects here reported are the first of their kind in the sense that the measurements were performed under a macroscopically homogeneous axial deformation, i.e., in the absence of macroscopic deformation gradients.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 695: Symposium L – Thin Films: Stresses and Mechanical Properties IX , 2001 , L8.3.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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