%0 journal article
%@ 0003-6951
%A Gamcova, J., Mohanty, G., Michalik, S., Wehrs, J., Bednarcik, J., Krywka, C., Breguet, J.M., Michler, J., Franz, H.

%D 2016
%J Applied Physics Letters
%N 3
%P 031907 
%R doi:10.1063/1.4939981
%T Mapping strain fields induced in Zr-based bulk metallic glasses during in-situ nanoindentation by X-ray nanodiffraction
%U https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4939981
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%X A pioneer in-situ synchrotron X-ray nanodiffraction approach for characterization and visualization of strain fields induced by nanoindentation in amorphous materials is introduced. In-situ nanoindentation experiments were performed in transmission mode using a monochromatic and highly focused sub-micron X-ray beam on 40 μm thick Zr-based bulk metallic glass under two loading conditions. Spatially resolved X-ray diffraction scans in the deformed volume of Zr-based bulk metallic glass covering an area of 40 × 40 μm2 beneath the pyramidal indenter revealed two-dimensional map of elastic strains. The largest value of compressive elastic strain calculated from diffraction data at 1 N load was −0.65%. The region of high elastic compressive strains (<−0.3%) is located beneath the indenter tip and has radius of 7 μm.