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Sanjit Bhowmick, Juan J. Melendez-Martinez, Brian R. Lawn
It has long been held that bulk silicon is immune from fatigue. We present contrary evidence demonstrating severe fatigue in macroscale cracks produced in cyclic loading of single-crystal silicon with a sphere indenter. The key ingredient is a component of
We present a new and simple approach to broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy that yields background-free vibrational spectra. We present evidence for a mechanism where two different frequency components in a continuum pulse
Pradeep N. Namboodiri, Doo-In Kim, Jaroslaw Grobelny, T Hawa, B Henz, Michael R. Zachariah
Fracture of nanoscale contacts formed between spherical probes and flat samples is studied using an atomic force microscope (AFM) in ultra high vacuum environment. Analysis of the nonlinear elastic behavior observed during the fracture process in the force
Siddarth Sundaresan, Albert Davydov, Mark D. Vaudin, Igor Levin, James E. Maslar, Yong-lai Tian, M V. Rao
SiC nanowires are grown by a novel catalyst-assisted sublimation-sandwich (SS) method. This involves microwave heating-assisted physical vapor transport from a source 4H-SiC wafer to a closely positioned substrate 4H-SiC wafer. The substrate wafer is
Joy P. Dunkers, Stefan D. Leigh, David Dean, M Cooke, Richard Ketcham, Marcus T. Cicerone
The motivation for the work is to rank candidate reference scaffolds by quality metrics in a systematic and quantitative manner by screening several microstructural descriptors of importance. We chose total pore volume, pore volume distribution, and pore
M W. Lufaso, W A. Schulze, L Misture, Terrell A. Vanderah
Bi3Fe0.5Nb1.5O9 was synthesized using conventional solid state techniques and its crystal structure refined by the Rietveld method using neutron powder diffraction data. The oxide adopts an Aurivillius-type structure with orthorhombic space group symmetry
Lawrence P. Cook, Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Z Yang, Peter K. Schenck, Igor Levin, Julia Frank
Interfacial reactions between the Ba2YCu3O6+x superconductor and the CeO2 buffer layer employed in coated conductors have been modeled experimentally by investigating the kinetics of the reaction between Ba2YCu3O6+x and CeO2. At 810 C and pO2 = 100 Pa, the
James J. Lee, H Chai, Isabel K. Lloyd, Brian R. Lawn
Crack propagation across interlayers separating adjoining brittle plates in flexure is studied using a model glass/epoxy/glass system. A transverse starter crack in the center glass plate is made to propagate to the nearest epoxy interface, where it
Gale A. Holmes, R C. Peterson, Donald L. Hunston, Walter G. McDonough
In this paper, we examine the regions of debonding between the fibers and the matrix surrounding fiber breaks formed during single-fiber fragmentation tests. The materials used were E-glass fibers embedded in a matrix of diglycidyl ether of bisphenol-A