Fracture mechanics in heterogeneous materials encompasses the study of crack initiation and propagation in systems comprising multiple constituent phases or layers with differing mechanical properties ...

New materials and systems enable chipmakers to increase the performance and reliability of hybrid bonding, the industry’s most advanced interconnect technology New deposition systems improve the ...

Recently, a research team led by Prof. NI Yong and Prof. HE Linghui from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) uncovered the propagation and toughening mechanism of tortuous crack ...

The classification of heterogeneous/gradient materials and the corresponding laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) methods are introduced. According to the mode of interface composition transition (discrete ...

In the race to extend Moore’s Law through advanced packaging, the limits of precision are no longer defined solely by lithography. Increasingly, they are dictated by the unpredictable behavior of ...