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Through a set of microtensile experiments, it was discovered that the resistance of a free-standing polycrystalline silicon thin film to cleavage cracking is not a material constant. Rather, it is highly dependent on the film thickness. As the film thickness changes from 1 to 10μm, the fracture resistance increases by 20–60%, which can be attributed to the nonuniform nature of the crack front advance...
In this paper, cleavage cracking across a regular array of debondable particles was discussed through an energy analysis. It was found that the toughening effect of the particles is dominated by a parameter χ. Increasing the particle volume fraction or the particle size has beneficial effects to the overall fracture toughness.
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