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Peak/Plateau Strength in Nanoscale Multilayer Thin Films: Constrained vs Unconstrained Dislocation Nucleation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Qizhen Li
Affiliation:
qizhenl@unr.edu, University of Nevada, Reno, Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Reno, Nevada, United States
Peter M. Anderson
Affiliation:
anderson.1@osu.edu, The Ohio State University, Materials Science and Engineering, Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Abstract

The peak/plateau strength of multilayer thin films is analyzed in terms of the stress to bow out a dislocation loop from an interface. Comparison of approximate analytic models to experimental data suggests that the bow out is “constrained” by nearby interfaces, at least for e-NbN/Mo and e-Ni/Cu films. Estimates of the interfacial pinning distance to form the bow out are ˜20b for e-NbN/Mo and ˜70b for e-Ni/Cu around peak/plateau strength (b is the magnitude of Burgers vector).

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2009

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