Revealing anelasticity and structural rearrangements in nanoscale metallic glass films using in situ TEM diffraction

Author(s)
Rohit Sarkar, Christian Ebner, Ehsan Izadi, Christian Rentenberger, Jagannathan Rajagopalan
Abstract

We used a novel diffraction-based method to extract the local, atomic-level elastic strain in nanoscale amorphous TiAl films during in situ transmission electron microscopy deformation, while simultaneously measuring the macroscopic strain. The complementary strain measurements revealed
significant anelastic deformation, which was independently confirmed by strain rate experiments. Furthermore, the distribution of first nearest-neighbor distances became narrower during loading and permanent changes were observed in the atomic structure upon unloading, even in the absence of macroscopic plasticity. The results demonstrate the capability of in situ electron diffraction to probe structural rearrangements and decouple elastic and anelastic deformation in metallic glasses.

Organisation(s)
Physics of Nanostructured Materials
External organisation(s)
Arizona State University
Journal
Materials Research Letters
Volume
5
Pages
135-143
No. of pages
9
ISSN
2166-3831
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/21663831.2016.1228709
Publication date
2017
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103042 Electron microscopy, 103018 Materials physics
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Materials Science(all)
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/revealing-anelasticity-and-structural-rearrangements-in-nanoscale-metallic-glass-films-using-in-situ-tem-diffraction(30822db8-a457-47a3-b278-c3311e6bf41b).html