C-AFM-based thickness determination of thin and ultra-thin SiO2 films by use of different conductive-coated probe tips

W Frammelsberger, G Benstetter, J Kiely… - Applied Surface Science, 2007 - Elsevier
The influence of the probe tip type on the electrical oxide thickness result was researched for
four differently coated conductive tip types using SiO2 (oxide) films with optical thickness of …

Measurement of material constants (Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio) of polypropylene using digital speckle pattern interferometry (DSPI)

M Kumar, KK Gaur, C Shakher - Journal of the Japanese Society for …, 2015 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The mechanical properties are very important parameter to determine and analysis of stress
and strain of a material. In this paper, a time-averaged digital speckle pattern interferometric …

Hyperconnected molecular glass network architectures with exceptional elastic properties

JA Burg, MS Oliver, TJ Frot, M Sherwood, V Lee… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Hyperconnected network architectures can endow nanomaterials with remarkable
mechanical properties that are fundamentally controlled by designing connectivity into the …

Tuning the sensing range and sensitivity of three axes tactile sensors using the polymer composite membrane

CC Wen, W Fang - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2008 - Elsevier
This study has successfully demonstrated a novel three axes polymer tactile sensor with
built-in piezoresistive sensors. The sensor consists of polymer membrane and four sensing …

Classical Jacobi polynomials, closed-form solutions for transverse vibrations

DI Caruntu - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper deals with transverse vibrations of nonuniform homogeneous beams and plates.
Classes of beams and axisymmetrical circular plates whose boundary value problems of …

Determining the thermal expansion coefficient of thin films for a CMOS MEMS process using test cantilevers

CL Cheng, MH Tsai, W Fang - Journal of Micromechanics and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Many standard CMOS processes, provided by existing foundries, are available. These
standard CMOS processes, with stacking of various metal and dielectric layers, have been …

Poisson's ratio of low-temperature PECVD silicon nitride thin films

BA Walmsley, Y Liu, XZ Hu, MB Bush… - Journal of …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the Poisson's ratio of low-temperature plasma-enhanced chemical vapor
deposited silicon nitride thin films has been determined by a modified double-membrane …

Piezoelectric strain modulation in FETs

T van Hemert, RJE Hueting - IEEE transactions on electron …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on a feature for the transistor, a piezoelectric layer to modulate the strain in the
channel. The strain is proportional to the gate-source voltage, and thus increases as the …

Injection molding temperature dependence of elastic coefficients obtained using three-point bending tests to ascertain thermoplastic polymer coefficients

T TAKAYAMA, Y MOTOYAMA - Mechanical Engineering Journal, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Thermoplastic resins, which are lighter than metals and ceramics, have many features such
as excellent processability. They are used in widely various fields for daily necessities and …

Elastic parameter identification of three-dimensional soft tissue based on deep neural network

Z Hu, S Liao, J Zhou, Q Chen, R Wu - Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the field of virtual surgery and deformation simulation, the identification of elastic
parameters of human soft tissues is a critical technology that directly affects the accuracy of …