{"id":668,"date":"2017-10-12T19:27:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T19:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5393.temp.domains\/~quranive\/\/?p=668"},"modified":"2022-01-13T17:23:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T17:23:38","slug":"youngs-modulus-for-silicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mechanicsandmachines.com\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Young&#8217;s modulus for silicon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon is one of the most commonly encountered materials in precision engineering (including silicon wafers and MEMS), but it poses a challenge in modeling as its material properties are anisotropic (orthotropic to be exact), meaning that the stiffness varies depending on the direction of loading relative to the crystal orientation.<\/p>\n<p>A great reference for its elastic properties including when isotropic approximations are appropriate is the paper by Hopcroft et al (M. A. Hopcroft, W. D. Nix, and T. W. Kenny, &#8220;What is the Young&#8217;s Modulus of Silicon?,&#8221;<br \/>\nJournal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 19, pp. 229-238, 2010.\u00a0 link to researchgate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/224124507_What_is_the_Young%27s_Modulus_of_Silicon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/224124507_What_is_the_Young%27s_Modulus_of_Silicon)<\/a>.\u00a0 Additionally Hopcroft&#8217;s course notes are useful\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/micromachine.stanford.edu\/~hopcroft\/Publications\/Hopcroft_E_Si_v1p1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/micromachine.stanford.edu\/~hopcroft\/Publications\/Hopcroft_E_Si_v1p1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon is one of the most commonly encountered materials in precision engineering (including silicon wafers and MEMS), but it poses a challenge in modeling as its material properties are anisotropic (orthotropic to be exact), meaning that the stiffness varies depending on the direction of loading relative to the crystal orientation. A great reference for its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicsandmachines.com\/?p=668\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Young&#8217;s modulus for silicon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,72,73,70,71],"series":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundamentals","tag-anisotropic","tag-isotropic","tag-orthotropic","tag-silicon","tag-youngs-modulus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5f9h7-aM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicsandmachines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicsandmachines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicsandmachines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicsandmachines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicsandmachines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicsandmachines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicsandmachines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicsandmachines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicsandmachines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicsandmachines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicsandmachines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}