Unraveling the discrepancies in size dependence of hardness and thermal stability in crystalline/amorphous nanostructured multilayers: Cu/Cu

Unraveling the discrepancies in size dependence of hardness and thermal stability in crystalline/amorphous nanostructured multilayers: Cu/Cu–Ti vs. Cu/HfO2

Published:2018 Issue:29 Volume:10 Page:14331-14341
ISSN:2040-3364
Container-title:Nanoscale
language:en
Short-container-title:Nanoscale

Author:

Yue T.¹²³⁴,Wang Y. Q.¹²³⁴,Zhang J. Y.¹²³⁴^ORCID,Wu K.¹²³⁴,Li G.¹²³⁴,Kuang J.¹²³⁴,Liu G.¹²³⁴,Sun J.¹²³⁴

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials

2. Xi'an Jiaotong University

3. Xi'an 710049

4. People's Republic of China

Abstract

Compared with the as-deposited crystalline/amorphous Cu/X (X = Cu-Ti, HfO₂) multilayers, the Cu/Cu-Ti samples manifest annealing hardening, while the Cu/HfO₂ samples manifest annealing softening.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2018/NR/C8NR02327A

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