Peite Bao, Yanbo Wang, Xiangyuan Cui, Qiang Gao, Hongwei Liu, Wai Kong Yeoh, Hung-Wei Yen, Xiaozhou Liao, Sichao Du, H. Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, Jin Zou, Simon P. Ringer, Rongkun Zheng
When a material is subjected to an applied stress, the material will experience recoverable elastic deformation followed by permanent plastic deformation at the point when the applied stress exceeds the yield stress of the material. Microscopically, the onset of the plasticity usually indicates the activation of dislocation motion, which is considered to be the primary mechanism of plastic deformation. Once plastic deformation is initiated, further elastic deformation is negligible owing to the limited increase in the flow stress caused by work hardening. Here we present experimental evidence and quantitative analysis of simultaneous development of significant elastic deformation and dislocation-based plastic deformation in single crystal GaAs nanowires (NWs) under bending deformation up to a total strain of ~ 6%. The observation is in sharp contrast to the previous notions regarding the deformation modes. Most of the plastic deformation recovers spontaneously when the external stress is released, and therefore resembles an elastic deformation process.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3046
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