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Investigation of the Influence of Grain Size, Texture and Orientation on the Mechanical behavior of Freestanding Polycrystalline Gold Films
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011
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Polycrystalline gold thin films with thickness of 250nm, 500nm and 1000nm were deposited on Si substrates by means of both E-Beam evaporation and sputtering techniques. High-resolution SEM, including electron-backscattered diffraction (EBSD), was employed to provide a crystallographic analysis including grain orientation maps of the studied films. The Membrane Deflection Experiment (MDE) was employed to perform the microscale tensile testing. The Young's modulus of gold films deposited by E-Beam evaporation was measured consistently in the range of 55-62 GPa while it increased to 68-72 GPa for sputtered films. Plastic yielding of the e-beam and sputtered films was contrasted due to varying microstructure of each deposition technique, which appears to assert a measure of control on the deformation mechanics.
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