Hall-Petch Hardening in Pulsed Laser Deposited Nickel and Copper Thin Films
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in MRS Proceedings
Abstract
Very fine-grained Ni and Cu films were formed using pulsed laser deposition onto fused silica substrates. The grain sizes in the films were characterized by electron microscopy, and the mechanical properties were determined by ultra-low load indentation, with finite-element modeling used to evaluate the properties of the layers separately from those of the substrate. Some Ni films were also examined after annealing to 350 and 450°C to enlarge the grain sizes. These preliminary results show that the observed hardnesses are consistent with a simple extension of the Hall-Petch relationship to grain sizes as small as 11 nm for Ni and 32 nm for Cu.Keywords
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