Kai-chen DONG, Shuai LOU, Jie YAO, et al. Measurement of residual stresses in pulsed laser deposited thin films[J]. Optics and precision engineering, 2018, 26(1): 70-76.
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Kai-chen DONG, Shuai LOU, Jie YAO, et al. Measurement of residual stresses in pulsed laser deposited thin films[J]. Optics and precision engineering, 2018, 26(1): 70-76. DOI: 10.3788/OPE.20182601.0070.
Measurement of residual stresses in pulsed laser deposited thin films
To measure the residual stresses in thin films with limited area prepared by pulsed laser deposition
as well as to solve the problem of the relatively large error introduced by the Stoney equation under certain circumstances
a measurement method for residual stresses in thin films based on cantilever structures and numerical calculation was proposed in this article. In this method
atomic force microscopy probes with zero initial curvature were used as substrate cantilevers
and thin films were deposited on the substrate cantilevers using pulsed laser deposition. The bending profiles of the substrate cantilevers before and after thin film deposition were recorded and used in numerical calculation
together with other parameters including the thin film thicknesses
the geometries of the substrate cantilevers
and the Young's moduli and the Poisson's ratios of the involved materials
to analyze the experimental data and obtain the residual stresses in the thin films. By using this method
the residual stress in vanadium dioxide thin films
prepared by pulsed laser deposition in a high-temperature environment
is measured to be -340 MPa
corresponding to the value reported in the literature. The measurement method for residual stresses in thin films proposed in this article
which is based on cantilever structures and numerical calculation
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