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Main Authors: Karpinski, Daniel, Polcar, Tomas, Bondarev, Andrey
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18928
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author Karpinski, Daniel
Polcar, Tomas
Bondarev, Andrey
author_facet Karpinski, Daniel
Polcar, Tomas
Bondarev, Andrey
contents Nanoscale metallic multilayer (NMM) films are systems offering insight into the role of interfaces in metal plasticity, deformation, and strengthening mechanisms. Magnetron sputtering was used to fabricate the Ta-Cu NMM films with a periodicity (equal Ta and Cu layer thickness) from 6 to 80 nm, with resulting structure exhibiting strongly incoherent tetragonal beta-Ta and face-centered cubic Cu phase. The high-load indentation test, TEM studies, and the rCLS model collectively demonstrate that all NMM films predominantly undergo plastic deformation. This plastic deformation primarily occurs within the soft Cu layer, while the propagation of dislocations across the incoherent interface is largely excluded.
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spellingShingle Exploring nanoscale metallic multilayer Ta/Cu films: Structure and some insights on deformation and strengthening mechanisms
Karpinski, Daniel
Polcar, Tomas
Bondarev, Andrey
Materials Science
Nanoscale metallic multilayer (NMM) films are systems offering insight into the role of interfaces in metal plasticity, deformation, and strengthening mechanisms. Magnetron sputtering was used to fabricate the Ta-Cu NMM films with a periodicity (equal Ta and Cu layer thickness) from 6 to 80 nm, with resulting structure exhibiting strongly incoherent tetragonal beta-Ta and face-centered cubic Cu phase. The high-load indentation test, TEM studies, and the rCLS model collectively demonstrate that all NMM films predominantly undergo plastic deformation. This plastic deformation primarily occurs within the soft Cu layer, while the propagation of dislocations across the incoherent interface is largely excluded.
title Exploring nanoscale metallic multilayer Ta/Cu films: Structure and some insights on deformation and strengthening mechanisms
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18928