Journal
REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Volume 80, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3266972
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Diamond nanoindentation probes may perform thousands of indentations over years of service life. There is a broad agreement that the probes need frequent cleaning, but techniques for doing so are mostly anecdotes shared between experimentalists. In preparation for the measurement of the shape of a nanoindentation probe by a scanning probe microscope, cleaning by carbon dioxide snow jets and oxygen plasma was investigated. Repeated indentation on a thumbprint-contaminated surface formed a compound that was very resistant to removal by solvents, CO(2) snow, and plasma. CO(2) snow cleaning is found to be a generally effective cleaning procedure. [doi: 10.1063/1.3266972]
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available