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Ren X, Liu P, Rzoska SJ, Lucznik B, Bockowski M, Smedskjaer MM. Indentation Response of Calcium Aluminoborosilicate Glasses Subjected to Humid Aging and Hot Compression. MATERIALS 2021; 14:ma14133450. [PMID: 34206254 PMCID: PMC8269477 DOI: 10.3390/ma14133450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Revised: 06/15/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Aluminoborosilicate glasses find a wide range of applications, which require good mechanical reliability such as surface damage resistance. Calcium aluminoborosilicate (CABS) glasses have recently been found to exhibit so-called intermediate behavior in terms of their response to sharp contact loading. That is, these glasses deform with less shear than normal glass and less densification than anomalous glasses. This deformation mechanism is believed to give rise to high crack initiation resistance of certain CABS glasses. In order to further improve and understand the micromechanical properties of this glass family, we studied the indentation response of different CABS glasses subjected to two types of post-treatment, namely hot compression and humid aging. Upon hot compression, density, elastic moduli, and hardness increased. Specifically, elastic modulus increased by as much as 20% relative to the as-made sample, while the largest change in hardness was 1.8 GPa compared to the as-made sample after hot compression. The pressure-induced increase in these properties can be ascribed to the increase in network connectivity and bond density. On the other hand, the crack initiation resistance decreased, as the hot compression increased the residual stress driving the indentation cracking. Humid aging had only a minor impact on density, modulus, and hardness, but an observed decrease in crack initiation resistance. We discuss the correlations between hardness, density, crack resistance, and deformation mechanism and our study thus provides guidelines for tailoring the mechanical properties of oxide glasses.
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Affiliation(s)
- Xiangting Ren
- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark; (X.R.); (P.L.)
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- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark; (X.R.); (P.L.)
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- Institute of High-Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 01-142 Warsaw, Poland; (S.J.R.); (B.L.); (M.B.)
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- Institute of High-Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 01-142 Warsaw, Poland; (S.J.R.); (B.L.); (M.B.)
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- Institute of High-Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 01-142 Warsaw, Poland; (S.J.R.); (B.L.); (M.B.)
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- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark; (X.R.); (P.L.)
- Correspondence:
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To T, Sørensen SS, Christensen JFS, Christensen R, Jensen LR, Bockowski M, Bauchy M, Smedskjaer MM. Bond Switching in Densified Oxide Glass Enables Record-High Fracture Toughness. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:17753-17765. [PMID: 33822572 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c00435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Humans primarily interact with information technology through glass touch screens, and the world would indeed be unrecognizable without glass. However, the low toughness of oxide glasses continues to be their Achilles heel, limiting both future applications and the possibility to make thinner, more environmentally friendly glasses. Here, we show that with proper control of plasticity mechanisms, record-high values of fracture toughness for transparent bulk oxide glasses can be achieved. Through proper combination of gas-mediated permanent densification and rational composition design, we increase the glasses' propensity for plastic deformation. Specifically, we demonstrate a fracture toughness of an aluminoborate glass (1.4 MPa m0.5) that is twice as high as that of commercial glasses for mobile devices. Atomistic simulations reveal that the densification of the adaptive aluminoborate network increases coordination number changes and bond swapping, ultimately enhancing plasticity and toughness upon fracture. Our findings thus provide general insights into the intrinsic toughening mechanisms of oxide glasses.
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Affiliation(s)
- Theany To
- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7H, Aalborg East 9220, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7H, Aalborg East 9220, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7H, Aalborg East 9220, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7H, Aalborg East 9220, Denmark
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- Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University, Fibigerstræde 16, Aalborg East 9220, Denmark
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- Institute of High-Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sokołowska 29, Warsaw 0114, Poland
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, 7400 Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7H, Aalborg East 9220, Denmark
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It is well known that ion implantation is one of the basic tools for semiconductor device fabrication. The implantation process itself damages, however, the crystallographic lattice of the semiconductor. Such damage can be removed by proper post-implantation annealing of the implanted material. Annealing also allows electrical activation of the dopant and creates areas of different electrical types in a semiconductor. However, such thermal treatment is particularly challenging in the case of gallium nitride since it decomposes at relatively low temperature (~800 °C) at atmospheric pressure. In order to remove the implantation damage in a GaN crystal structure, as well as activate the implanted dopants at ultra-high pressure, annealing process is proposed. It will be described in detail in this paper. P-type GaN implanted with magnesium will be briefly discussed. A possibility to analyze diffusion of any dopant in GaN will be proposed and demonstrated on the example of beryllium.
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Østergaard MB, Hansen SR, Januchta K, To T, Rzoska SJ, Bockowski M, Bauchy M, Smedskjaer MM. Revisiting the Dependence of Poisson's Ratio on Liquid Fragility and Atomic Packing Density in Oxide Glasses. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2019; 12:E2439. [PMID: 31370218 PMCID: PMC6696245 DOI: 10.3390/ma12152439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2019] [Revised: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 07/29/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Poisson's ratio (ν) defines a material's propensity to laterally expand upon compression, or laterally shrink upon tension for non-auxetic materials. This fundamental metric has traditionally, in some fields, been assumed to be a material-independent constant, but it is clear that it varies with composition across glasses, ceramics, metals, and polymers. The intrinsically elastic metric has also been suggested to control a range of properties, even beyond the linear-elastic regime. Notably, metallic glasses show a striking brittle-to-ductile (BTD) transition for ν-values above ~0.32. The BTD transition has also been suggested to be valid for oxide glasses, but, unfortunately, direct prediction of Poisson's ratio from chemical composition remains challenging. With the long-term goal to discover such high-ν oxide glasses, we here revisit whether previously proposed relationships between Poisson's ratio and liquid fragility (m) and atomic packing density (Cg) hold for oxide glasses, since this would enable m and Cg to be used as surrogates for ν. To do so, we have performed an extensive literature review and synthesized new oxide glasses within the zinc borate and aluminoborate families that are found to exhibit high Poisson's ratio values up to ~0.34. We are not able to unequivocally confirm the universality of the Novikov-Sokolov correlation between ν and m and that between ν and Cg for oxide glass-formers, nor for the organic, ionic, chalcogenide, halogenide, or metallic glasses. Despite significant scatter, we do, however, observe an overall increase in ν with increasing m and Cg, but it is clear that additional structural details besides m or Cg are needed to predict and understand the composition dependence of Poisson's ratio. Finally, we also infer from literature data that, in addition to high ν, high Young's modulus is also needed to obtain glasses with high fracture toughness.
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- Martin B Østergaard
- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg East, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg East, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg East, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg East, Denmark
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- Institute of High-Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 01-142 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of High-Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 01-142 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg East, Denmark.
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Mascaraque N, Bauchy M, Fierro JLG, Rzoska SJ, Bockowski M, Smedskjaer MM. Dissolution Kinetics of Hot Compressed Oxide Glasses. J Phys Chem B 2017; 121:9063-9072. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b04535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Nerea Mascaraque
- Department
of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los
Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica (CSIC), Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Institute
of High-Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 01-142 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute
of High-Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 01-142 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark
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Svenson MN, Mauro JC, Rzoska SJ, Bockowski M, Smedskjaer MM. Accessing Forbidden Glass Regimes through High-Pressure Sub-T g Annealing. Sci Rep 2017; 7:46631. [PMID: 28418017 PMCID: PMC5394531 DOI: 10.1038/srep46631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2016] [Accepted: 03/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Density and hardness of glasses are known to increase upon both compression at the glass transition temperature (Tg) and ambient pressure sub-Tg annealing. However, a serial combination of the two methods does not result in higher density and hardness, since the effect of compression is countered by subsequent annealing and vice versa. In this study, we circumvent this by introducing a novel treatment protocol that enables the preparation of high-density, high-hardness bulk aluminosilicate glasses. This is done by first compressing a sodium-magnesium aluminosilicate glass at 1 GPa at Tg, followed by sub-Tg annealing in-situ at 1 GPa. Through density, hardness, and heat capacity measurements, we demonstrate that the effects of hot compression and sub-Tg annealing can be combined to access a "forbidden glass" regime that is inaccessible through thermal history or pressure history variation alone. We also study the relaxation behavior of the densified samples during subsequent ambient pressure sub-Tg annealing. Density and hardness are found to relax and approach their ambient condition values upon annealing, but the difference in relaxation time of density and hardness, which is usually observed for hot compressed glasses, vanishes for samples previously subjected to high-pressure sub-Tg annealing. This confirms the unique configurational state of these glasses.
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- Mouritz N. Svenson
- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg 9220, Denmark
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- Science and Technology Division, Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY 14831, USA
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- Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 00-142, Poland
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- Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 00-142, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg 9220, Denmark
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