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Experimental Instruments and Methods

Possible manifestations of quantum effects in the boron microindentation kinetics

A. I. Slutsker, V. I. Betekhtin, A. G. Kadomtsev

Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg

Abstract: The kinetics of indentation of a solid (viz., the dependence of the indenter intrusion depth on the time, force, and temperature), is analyzed theoretically taking into account quantum effects in the atomic dynamics of solids. The experimental study of the temperature dependence of the boron microhardness reveals qualitative and quantitative agreement with calculated dependences. A possible manifestation of quantum (tunnel) effects in the boron microindentation kinetics is predicted.

Received: 16.03.2010

 English version: Technical Physics, 2010, 55:11, 1680–1686

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