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A symposium on
Fracture and reliability of thin films
Organised by
A. Karimi
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Faculty of Basic Science, PH D2 425, Station 3
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Phone: + 41-21-693 3395, Fax: + 41-21-693 4470, ayat.karimi@epfl.ch
A. Leonhardt
Institute for
IFW
D-01171
Phone: + 49-351-4659299, Fax: + 49-351-4659313, a.leonhardt@ifw.dresden.de
Understanding of mechanical
properties and failure behaviours are crucial for a wide variety of thin film
technologies such as; microelectronics, data storage, micro-electromechanical
systems, biomedical devices, and hard protective coatings. This knowledge can
be used to tailor the material properties with respect to the materials states,
and thereby influence the design, performance and reliability of thin film
structures under operating conditions.
The increased need for small-scale
metal featuring and continued miniaturisation of engineering components
requires appropriate experimental and analytical tools for the quantitative
study of mechanical properties of materials at the nano and micrometer scales,
since concepts, models, and techniques developed for bulk materials often do
not apply in small dimensions. This symposium addresses key issues in the
fundamental and practical aspects of thin film fracture, and seeks to bring
divers communities together to examine areas of cooperative research and cross
fertilisation of ideas.
Papers will be solicited in the
following, or related, areas:
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Delamination
fracture and substrate-film interactions
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Buckle-driven
fracture and inelastic deformation effects
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Microstructural
and interface stability on mechanical properties of thin films
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Reliability and
failure processes in coated systems
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Theoretical and
experimental studies of crack nucleation process in thin films
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Mechanical
testing methods to determine fracture toughness of hard thin films
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Dislocation
plasticity in thin metal films
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Influence of
intrinsic and extrinsic stresses.
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Artificially
multilayered and nanostructured thin films
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Polymer thin
films, viscoelasticity effects, and viscoplastic dissipation
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Biomaterials/biological
interfaces
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Analytical and
computer simulation investigations
Please submit abstracts at http://ecf16.civil.duth.gr/ by
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