SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
DOI: 10.1038/NNANO.2012.116
NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
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DeformationMechanismsinnanotwinnedmetalnanopillars
DongchanJang,
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XiaoyanLi,
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HuajianGao,andJuliaR.Greer
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Supplementary Figure S1.
Fabrication procedure for nanotwinned nanopillars. a,
A
schematic showing nanotwinned nanopillar fabrication steps (after Ref. [31] in Main Text).
b,
A schematic representation of the electroplating setup.
c,
The waveform of the pulsed electroplat-
ing current.
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Supplementary Figure S2.
Plucking of individual samples for TEM analysis. a,
A nanopillar
is placed within the SEMentor tension grip, and detached from the substrate by gently shaking
the sample stage.
b,
The detached nanopillar is lifted up by the SEMentor tension grip.
c, d,
The
lifted nanopillar is transferred on top of a post on the TEM lift-out grid.
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