Temperature Activates Contact Aging in Silica Nanocontacts

Understanding the time evolution of contact strength in silica nanocontacts is of great fundamental and practical relevance in diverse areas like earthquake dynamics, wafer bonding mechanisms, as well as MEMS applications. The logarithmic increase of contact strength with hold time, termed contact a...

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Main Authors: Matthias Vorholzer, J. G. Vilhena, Ruben Perez, Enrico Gnecco, Dirk Dietzel, André Schirmeisen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2019-12-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.041045