## Abstract Metallic thinβfilm plasticity has been widely studied by using the difference between the coefficients of thermal expansion of the film and the underlying substrate to induce stress. This approach is commonly known as the wafer curvature technique, based on the Stoney equation, which ha
Deformation behavior of thin copper films on deformable substrates
β Scribed by M. Hommel; O. Kraft
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 823 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1359-6454
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β¦ Synopsis
The role of strain hardening for the deformation of thin Cu films was investigated quantitatively by conducting specialized tensile testing allowing the simultaneous characterization of the film stress and the dislocation density as a function of plastic strain. The stress-strain behavior was studied as a function of microstructural parameters of the films, such as film thickness (0.4-3.2 Β΅m), grain size and texture. It was found that the stress-strain behavior can be divided into three regimes, i.e. elastic, plastic with strong strain hardening and plastic with weak hardening. The flow stresses and the hardening rate increase with decreasing film thickness and/or grain size, and are about two times higher in (111)-grains compared to the (100)-grains. These effects will be discussed in the light of existing models for plastic deformation of thin films or fine grained metals.
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