Measuring fracture toughness of coatings using focused-ion-beam-machined microbeams – ERRATUM

Measuring fracture toughness of coatings using FIB-machined microbeams

D. Di Maio and S. G. Roberts Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK keywords: toughness, coating, nanoindentation. Abstract Measuring the toughness of brittle coatings has always been a difficult task. Coatings are often too thin to easily prepare a freestanding sample of a defined geometry in order to use standard toughness measuring techniques. Using standard indentation techniques...

Fracture toughness of different PVD coatings

Indentat~on technque was used to characterize the mechanical properties (elastic modulus, hardness and toughness) both of PVD coatmgs and autocatallt~c chem~cal deposition ones. TIN and TiCN films m ere respectively depos~ted on a duple.: s t adess steel substrate using PVD technque. moreover a Nip films (P content about 8O6) and a NIPIB,C composite ones were used as comparison materials The ef...

Sculpting on polymers using focused ion beam

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Microscale Metallography Using Focused Ion Beam

Microstructural examination can provide a rich tapestry of information about the processing and application history of a metal component. For this reason, microstructural characterization is a fundamental tool for failure analysis of these components. To reduce costs and accommodate demands for smaller packaging, many applications currently use metallic components where the critical dimensions ...

Focused Ion Beam Lithography