NEW MECHANISMS FOR NANOINDENTATION DATA PROCESSING USING ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY METHOD

Autor: A. A. Mohammed Salem, G. B. Melnikova, A. A. Makhaniok, S. A. Chizhik
Jazyk: ruština
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Nauka i Tehnika, Vol 0, Iss 1, Pp 52-60 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2227-1031
2414-0392
Popis: Elastic modulus accuracy using atomic force microscopy depends significantly on processing quality of the experimental data obtained during nanoindentation. Multiply repeated calibration can lead to conservative value of the calibration factor. Such artefact is caused by probe slipping on silicon plate surface which is harder than surface of the investigated specimen and which is non-uniform in height. Elastic modulus calculated by the Hertz model depends on penetration value while processing the indentation data at small depth of the probe penetration into the specimen. A value being close to asymptotical one which is obtained at rather large object deformation is taken as a required modulus. Such deformation is not always possible in an experiment, or it is achieved with rather large (tens of percent) relative deformations that is beyond permissible region of the Hertz model application.The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate several new opportunities for nanoindentation data processing, as at the stage of obtaining or verifying a calibration factor of the atomic force microscope so while analyzing an investigated object penetration curve. The paper considers two methodologies for determination of the calibration factor on the basis of the Hertz and Johnson-Kendall-Roberts models and proposes new mechanisms for determination of elastic modulus while using method of atomic force microscopy. The possibility to calibrate atomic force microscope according to material with known mechanical properties has been shown in the paper. The paper substantiates the necessity and provides an algorithm for correction of the measured probe penetration depth with due account of adhesive forces while calculating the in the region of small specimen deformations. The proposed methods for determination of the calibration factor and asymptotic value of the elastic modulus will be useful for obtaining reproducible and more accurate results of atomic force microscopy for mechanical properties.
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