Modification of a Commercial Nanoindentation System for measurement of hysteresis cycles under mechanical load in polycrystalline ferroelectric films
A commercial hardness-tester by nanoindentation was modified to use metallic indenter tips for the measurement of hysteresis cycles of ferroelectric films under mechanical load and with high lateral resolution. A novel semi-automatic charge integrating module was developed to this aim. LabVIEW 8.6 g...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/46081 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/46081 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Nanoindentation Nanoindentación Ferroelectrics Ferroeléctricos Films Láminas Hysteresis Histéresis DAS Datos |
| Sumario: | A commercial hardness-tester by nanoindentation was modified to use metallic indenter tips for the measurement of hysteresis cycles of ferroelectric films under mechanical load and with high lateral resolution. A novel semi-automatic charge integrating module was developed to this aim. LabVIEW 8.6 graphical programming environment was used to control the data acquisition system (DAS), the sinusoidal high voltage generator (± 300V) and the charge integrating module in the measurement of the loops. The software also provides data correction due to non-ferroelectric-switching contributions to obtain reliable remanent polarization (Pr) and coercive field (Ec) values. It also displays the loops both in polarization-field (P-E) and current density-field (J-E) modes. The experimental set-up was validated with measurements on dense PZT films (10μm) on platinised Si substrates. Coherent cycles are obtained using the novel semi-automatic charge integrator, the classical Sawyer and Tower circuit and using an electrometer. Under low indentation load causing quasi-elastic strain, the loops do not show any artifact. |
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