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Item Microstructure and Strengthening Mechanisms of Highly Textured Cu/Ni Multilayers(2011-10-21) Liu, YueIn this thesis, I planned to fabricate Cu/Ni metallic multilayers with equal layer thicknesses on different substrates by using magnetic sputtering technique. My objective was to characterize the texture, structure and hardness, in order to study strengthening mechanisms and nanotwins in the Cu/Ni multilayers. Sputtered, highly textured (111) and (100) Cu/Ni multilayers with individual layer thickness, h, vary from 1 to 200 nm. At greater h, X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of Cu and Ni (100 or 111) peaks are clearly separated indicating that the interface between Cu and Ni is semi-coherent. When h decreases to 5 nm or less, XRD spectra show significant peak distortions due to coherency stress. High resolution microscopy studies confirm the coexistence of nanotwins and coherent layer interfaces in highly (111) textured Cu/Ni mutilayers. Nanoscale twins can be formed in Cu at all h and in Ni at smaller h. Multilayer hardnesses increase with decreasing h, approach maxima at h of 2.5-5 nm, and show softening thereafter. A detail comparison between (111) and (100) textured Cu/Ni is made in both microstructure and strengthening. In this thesis, the possible mechanisms to form high density growth twins in Ni are discussed. Furthermore, the influences of both coherent layer interfaces and twin interfaces on strengthening mechanisms are discussed.Item Strengthening Mechanisms of Sputtered Copper, Cobalt and Their Nanocomposites(2014-04-28) Liu, YueLow energy planar defects such as twin boundaries have been employed to strengthen materials effectively with insignificant loss of the conductivity and ductility. High density growth twins can be formed in low stacking fault energy (SFE) metals, such as copper (Cu) and silver (Ag). However, low SFE metal cobalt (Co) received little attention due to the complex coexistence of hexagonal close-packed (HCP) and face-centered cubic (FCC) structure. The focus of this research is to identify the strengthening mechanisms of planar defects such as twin boundaries, stacking faults, and layer interfaces in epitaxial FCC/HCP Co, and Cu/Co multilayers. Our studies show that epitaxial Cu/Co multilayers with different texture have drastic different mechanical properties, dictated by the transmission of partial vs. full dislocations across layer interfaces. Furthermore the mechanical properties of epitaxial Co are dominated by high density stacking faults. Moreover, by applying advanced nanoindentation techniques, such as thermal-drift corrected strain-rate sensitivity measurement, the mechanical properties including strain-rate sensitivity is accurately determined. By using in situ nanoindentation under transmission electron microscope (TEM), we determined deformation physics of nanotwinned Cu, including detwinning, dislocation-twin interactions and work hardening. This project provides an important new perspective to investigate mechanical behavior of nanostructured metals with high density stacking faults.