Growth twins and deformation twins in metals

IJ Beyerlein, X Zhang, A Misra - Annual Review of Materials …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews recent basic research on two classes of twins: growth twins and
deformation twins. We focus primarily on studies that aim to understand, via experiments …

Mechanical properties of nano-silver joints as die attach materials

KS Siow - Journal of alloys and compounds, 2012 - Elsevier
This review traces the development of silver (Ag) as a die attach bonding material in the
microelectronic packaging industry from its' early days as micron-scale silver flakes to the …

High strength, epitaxial nanotwinned Ag films

D Bufford, H Wang, X Zhang - Acta Materialia, 2011 - Elsevier
Epitaxial silver films with (111) and (110) orientations were deposited by magnetron
sputtering onto silicon (111) and (110) substrates, respectively. High density growth twins …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the microstructure refinement and mechanical strengthening of dual-phase high entropy alloy during ultrasonic shot peening

F Yin, X Zhang, F Chen, S Hu, K Ming, J Zhao, L Xie… - Materials & Design, 2023 - Elsevier
The ultrastrong gradient nanostructured dual-phase high entropy alloy (DP-HEA) Fe 50 Mn
30 Co 10 Cr 10 has been fabricated by an efficient surface nanocrystallization method, eg …

Metals by Micro‐Scale Additive Manufacturing: Comparison of Microstructure and Mechanical Properties

A Reiser, L Koch, KA Dunn, T Matsuura… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many emerging applications in microscale engineering rely on the fabrication of 3D
architectures in inorganic materials. Small‐scale additive manufacturing (AM) aspires to …

Twinning effects on strength and plasticity of metallic materials

J Wang, X Zhang - Mrs Bulletin, 2016 - cambridge.org
Twins are domain crystals inside their parent crystals, where they share some of the same
crystal lattice points in a symmetrical manner. The formation and growth of twins result in …

Ageing sintered silver: relationship between tensile behavior, mechanical properties and the nanoporous structure evolution

P Gadaud, V Caccuri, D Bertheau, J Carr… - Materials Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Silver pastes sintering is a potential candidate for die bonding in power electronic modules.
The joints, obtained by sintering, exhibit a significant pore fraction thus reducing the density …

Nanomechanical characterization of Sn–Ag–Cu/Cu joints—Part 1: Young's modulus, hardness and deformation mechanisms as a function of temperature

VMF Marques, C Johnston, PS Grant - Acta materialia, 2013 - Elsevier
Nanoindentation has been used at room and elevated temperature to measure the spatial
distribution of mechanical properties within Pb-free solder ball joints. The hardness, Young's …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative characterization of porosity and determination of elastic modulus for sintered micro-silver joints

J Carr, X Milhet, P Gadaud, SAE Boyer… - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
High resolution serial block-face scanning electron microscopy has been performed on
sintered micro-silver pastes that are used as lead replacement joints for die bonding. The …

Effects of stretching and cycling on the fatigue behavior of polymer-supported Ag thin films

GD Sim, YS Lee, SB Lee, JJ Vlassak - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2013 - Elsevier
The fatigue behavior of silver films on polyethylene-terephthalate substrates is studied for
various levels of film thickness, pre-stretch, sample width, and applied strain range. Films …