Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1502343 Scripta Materialia 2008 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

Bulk silicon is not susceptible to high-cycle fatigue but micron-scale silicon films are. Using polysilicon resonators to determine stress-lifetime fatigue behavior in several environments, oxide layers are found to show up to four-fold thickening after cycling, which is not seen after monotonic loading or after cycling in vacuo. We believe that the mechanism of thin-film silicon fatigue is “reaction-layer fatigue”, involving cyclic stress-induced thickening of the oxide and moisture-assisted cracking within this layer.

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