Stress topology within silicon single-crystal cantilever beam

Flexural elastic deformations of single-crystal silicon have been studied using microspectral Raman scattering. Results are reported on nano-scaled sign-changing shifts of the main peak of the microspectral Raman scattering within the single-crystal silicon cantilever beam during exposure to flexural stress. The maximum value of Raman shift characteristic of the 518 cm−1 silicon peak at which elasticity still remains has been found to be 8 cm−1 which corresponds to an applied deformation of 4 GPa. We report three-dimensional maps of the distribution of internal stresses at different levels of deformation up to irreversible changes and brittle fracture of the samples that clearly show compression and tension areas and an undeformed area. A qualitative explanation of the increase in the strength of the cantilever beam due to its small thickness (2 μm) has been provided that agrees with the predictions of real-world physical parameters obtained in SolidWorks software environment with the SimulationXpress module. We have defined the relative strain of the beam surface which was 2% and received a confirmation of changes in the silicon lattice parameter from 0.54307 nm to 0.53195 nm by the BFGS algorithm.