New design of operational MEMS bridges for measurements of properties of FEBID-based nanostructures

• Bartosz Pruchnik,
• Krzysztof Kwoka,
• Ewelina Gacka,
• Dominik Badura,
• Piotr Kunicki,
• Andrzej Sierakowski,
• Paweł Janus,
• Tomasz Piasecki and
• Teodor Gotszalk

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1273–1282, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.103

• residual strain field induced by processing steps. The concept of eigenstrain is flexible enough to include all residual stresses in solids [42]. This is done using pseudo-thermal strain, which induces an arbitrary eigenstrain field, which is then compared with experimental data [43]. The aim of the

A review of defect engineering, ion implantation, and nanofabrication using the helium ion microscope

• Frances I. Allen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 633–664, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.52

• analysis of the implantation profiles from line exposures [75] (Figure 3a). A recent extension of this work has been reported by Li et al. [76], which includes strain field analysis (Figure 3b) and a survey of bubble size distributions. In work using a gold target, Veligura et al. investigated the effect

Observation of unexpected uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in La_2/3Sr_1/3MnO₃ films by a BaTiO₃ overlayer in an artificial multiferroic bilayer

• John E. Ordóñez,
• Lorena Marín,
• Luis A. Rodríguez,
• Pedro A. Algarabel,
• José A. Pardo,
• Roger Guzmán,
• Luis Morellón,
• César Magén,
• Etienne Snoeck,
• María E. Gómez and
• Manuel R. Ibarra

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 651–661, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.51

• spatial resolution below 1 Å. Local strain field maps of the bilayers were obtained by applying the GPA method on HAADF-STEM images. We studied the in-plane magnetic anisotropy through room-temperature hysteresis loops taken at different angles between the in-plane applied magnetic field and the

Direct observation of the CVD growth of monolayer MoS₂ using in situ optical spectroscopy

• Claudia Beatriz López-Posadas,
• Yaxu Wei,
• Wanfu Shen,
• Daniel Kahr,
• Michael Hohage and
• Lidong Sun

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 557–564, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.57

• molecule adsorption [22][23] as well as strain field [24]. These facts make optical spectroscopy a sensitive probe to monitor the surface kinetics involved during the growth of 2D TMDCs. Furthermore, the optical methods used in the visible range can be applied under various environments including vacuum

Humidity-dependent wound sealing in succulent leaves of Delosperma cooperi – An adaptation to seasonal drought stress

• Olga Speck,
• Mark Schlechtendahl,
• Florian Borm,
• Tim Kampowski and
• Thomas Speck

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 175–186, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.20

• construction plans, numerical and analytical models [6]. In cases in which mainly physical processes (e.g., movement driven by hydraulics and mechanical instabilities or a given stress–strain field in combination with morphological–anatomical characteristics) and/or chemical processes (e.g., polymerisation

• carefully arranged parallel to the tension forces to ensure an even strain field over the diameter of the sample. During hardening the adhesive glued samples were stored in a humidity chamber (>95% relative air humidity) in order to prevent or slow down dehydration (storage time for leaves: 2–4 h, storage

Free vibration of functionally graded carbon-nanotube-reinforced composite plates with cutout

• Mostafa Mirzaei and
• Yaser Kiani

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 511–523, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.45

• the strain–displacement relations results in the components of strain on an arbitrary point of the plate in terms of mid-surface strain components and change in curvature as The strain field on the midsurface of the plate may be obtained according to the midsurface displacements as and the change of

Simulation of thermal stress and buckling instability in Si/Ge and Ge/Si core/shell nanowires

• Suvankar Das,
• Amitava Moitra,
• Mishreyee Bhattacharya and
• Amlan Dutta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1970–1977, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.201

• ]. Moreover, the mismatch between the lattice parameters of Si and Ge causes an inhomogeneous strain distribution within the unloaded CSNW [17][18]. The strain field is stronger near the core–shell interface and may induce some elastic nonlinearity, thereby dictating the overall elastic moduli of the

Strain distribution due to surface domains: a self-consistent approach with respect to surface elasticity

• Javier Fuhr and
• Pierre Müller

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 321–326, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.30

• in terms of point forces. Such point forces lead to local strain divergences that are usually avoided by introducing a poorly defined cut-off length. In this work, we develop a self-consistent approach in which the strain field induced by the surface domains is expressed as the solution of an

• integral equation that contains surface elastic constants, Sij. For surfaces with positive Sij the new approach avoids the introduction of a cut-off length. The classical and the new approaches are compared in case of 1-D periodic ribbons. Keywords: surface strain; surface elasticity; strain field

• ; Introduction The classical approach used to calculate the strain field that surface domains induce in their underlying substrate consists of modeling the surface by a distribution of point forces concentrated at the domain boundaries [1][2][3], the force amplitude being proportional to the difference of

Static analysis of rectangular nanoplates using trigonometric shear deformation theory based on nonlocal elasticity theory

• Mohammad Rahim Nami and
• Maziar Janghorban

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 968–973, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.109

• classical theories, but the stress field at an arbitrary point in an elastic medium depends on the strain field in a place near that point [13]. The constitutive relations on the basis of nonlocal elasticity theory for a graphene sheet represented by the following differential equations [14][15]: Where μ is

Plasticity of Cu nanoparticles: Dislocation-dendrite-induced strain hardening and a limit for displacive plasticity

• Antti Tolvanen and
• Karsten Albe

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 173–179, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.17

• the strain field associated with the partial approaching the constricted surface. This leads to accumulation of dislocations near the extrusion orifice and to dislocation interactions typically not found in bulk materials. An example of such a situation is presented in Figure 5d in which two stair-rod