Abstract
Using a unique combination of in situ electrical and acoustical measurements and ex situ transmission electron microscopy, the phase transformations of silicon during point loading were shown to exhibit a strong dependence on the size of the deformed volume. For nanometer-size volumes of silicon, the final phase was the body centered cubic structure BC8, but for larger volumes it was amorphous. The size dependence was explained by considering how shear stress fields vary with contact size and how interfacial effects between the silicon substrate and the BC8 phase determine its stability. For both small and large contacts the presence of a nonmetallic phase (assumed to be the Rhombohedral structure R8) was observed.
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