This thesis transports you to a wonderful and fascinating small-scale world and tells you the origin of several new phenomena. The investigative tool is the improved discrete dislocation-based multi-scale approaches, bridging the continuum modeling and atomistic simulation. Mechanism-based theoretical models are put forward to conveniently predict the mechanical responses and defect evolution. The findings presented in this thesis yield valuable new guidelines for microdevice design, reliability analysis and defect tuning.
This thesis transports you to a wonderful and fascinating small-scale world and tells you the origin of several new phenomena. The investigative tool is the improved discrete dislocation-based multi-scale approaches, bridging the continuum modeling and atomistic simulation. Mechanism-based theoretical models are put forward to conveniently predict the mechanical responses and defect evolution. The findings presented in this thesis yield valuable new guidelines for microdevice design, reliability analysis and defect tuning.
Nominated as an outstanding thesis by Tsinghua University Elucidates new, atypical, small-scale plasticity mechanisms Provides valuable guidelines for microdevice design, reliability analysis, and defect tuning Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Yinan Cui
Dislocation dynamics Crystal plasticity theory Multiscale simulation Coating micropillar Dislocation starvation