So I hear you are anxious to read this upcoming article in PRL.
Minimum threshold for incipient plasticity in the atomic-scale nanoindentation of Au(111)
William Paul, David Oliver, Yoichi Miyahara, and Peter H. Grütter
Accepted
The formation of the smallest permanent indentation in a Au(111) surface is studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and atomic force microscopy in ultrahigh vacuum. The 9.5 nm radius W(111) indenter was characterized in situ by field ion microscopy. Elastic and plastic indentations are identified both in the residual impression image and by features in their force-displacement curves such as the sink-in depth, popins, and hysteresis energy. Plasticity is best identified quantitatively in the force-displacement curves by the sink-in depth. The minimum of plastic damage producible in the substrate is associated with an energy budget of ~70 eV.
Aren't we all.
The mean waiting time of accepted papers waiting for publication in Phys Rev Lett is 22.8 days, excluding one outlier they've been dragging around since 2011.
In other news, the PhD thesis will be done shortly, so I can return to tell you all about things like fixing coffee grinder switches, building sous-vide rigs, brewing ciders, etc. AKA WP's return to the land of the living.
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