Stacking fault-mediated ultrastrong nanocrystalline Ti thin films

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Abstract

In this work, we prepared nanocrystalline (NC) Ti thin films with abundant stacking faults (SFs), which were created via partial dislocations emitted from grain boundaries and which were insensitive to grain sizes. By employing the nanoindentation test, we investigated the effects of SFs and grain sizes on the strength of NC Ti films at room temperature. The high density of SFs significantly strengthens NC Ti films, via dislocation-SF interactions associated with the reported highest Hall-Petch slope of ∼20 GPa nm1/2, to an ultrahigh strength of ∼4.4 GPa, approaching ∼50% of its ideal strength.

Original languageEnglish
Article number445706
JournalNanotechnology
Volume28
Issue number44
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Oct 2017

Keywords

  • Hall-Petch relation
  • nanostructured Ti thin films
  • size effects
  • stacking faults
  • strengthening mechanism

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