Nowadays, instrumented indentation is routinely used in quality control as well as in many different areas of industrial and academic research. This technique is generally known as nanoindentation ...

Although the tool was initially developed to image non-conducting samples, its application was later realized in surface characterization at the nano and micro scale. AFM analyzes both the physical ...

Material resistance to crack growth and fracture is known as fracture toughness (K c), which determines the structural integrity of brittle materials by characterizing the rate at which energy is ...