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Temperature Dependence of Nanoscale Friction Investigated with Thermal AFM Probes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Christian Greiner ,
Jonathan R. Felts ,
Zhenting Dai ,
William P. King  and
Robert W. Carpick
Christian Greiner
Affiliation:
cgreiner@seas.upenn.edu, University of Pennsylvania, Department for Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Jonathan R. Felts
Affiliation:
felts2@illinois.edu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Urbana, Illinois, United States
Zhenting Dai
Affiliation:
ztdai@illinois.edu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Urbana, Illinois, United States
William P. King
Affiliation:
wpk@illinois.edu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Urbana, Illinois, United States
Robert W. Carpick
Affiliation:
carpick@seas.upenn.edu, University of Pennsylvania, Department for Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Abstract

Measurements of nanoscale friction between silicon AFM tips featuring an in-situ solid state heater and silicon substrates (both with native oxide) were performed. The temperature of the heater was varied between room temperature and approximately 650 °C. For these temperatures and the silicon substrate, the temperatures at the point of contact are estimated to range from room temperature to approximately 120±20 °C. Experiments were carried out in ambient atmosphere (˜30% relative humidity) and under dry nitrogen. Tests under constant load revealed that in the presence of ambient, friction increased with heater temperature whereas it did not change in dry nitrogen. For experiments carried out for different tip velocities (40 to 7800 nm/s), friction decreased with velocity in ambient and did not change in dry nitrogen. Both trends can be explained by thermally-assisted formation of capillary bridges between tip and substrate and the kinetics of capillary condensation under ambient conditions.

Keywords

tribologyscanning probe microscopy (SPM)surface chemistry
Type
Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1226: Symposium II – Mechanochemistry in Materials Science , 2009 , 1226-II05-02
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2010

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