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Optical properties of plastically deformed copper: amorphous state with residual nanocrystals

R. RUDOLF1,2, M. GILIĆ3, M. ROMČEVIĆ3,* , I. ANŽEL1

Affiliation

  1. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maribor, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
  2. Zlatarna Celje d.d., Kersnikova 19, 3000 Celje, Slovenia
  3. Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract

Chemically pure copper (99.99) prepared in a sample of square cross-section (10×10 mm2) and about 50 mm long was extremely plastically deformed with the repeated application of Equal Channel Angular Pressing. AFM investigation gives us information on microstructure with ultrafine grains. The structure of the sample surface, such as the copper oxide and surface roughness over-layer, registered by ellipsometry. Two types of lines are registered by Raman spectroscopy: narrow, with the width ∼ 7 cm-1, and wide (∼ 40 cm-1), indicates that nano-sized crystal structures related with three dimensional amorphous boundary spaces exist in the specimen..

Keywords

Copper, Amorphisation, Atomic force microscopy, Ellipsometric spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy.

Citation

R. RUDOLF, M. GILIĆ, M. ROMČEVIĆ, I. ANŽEL, Optical properties of plastically deformed copper: amorphous state with residual nanocrystals, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 5, 9, September 2011, pp.932-935 (2011).

Submitted at: Sept. 2, 2011

Accepted at: Sept. 15, 2011