Selected Publications:

1. H. Bei, S. Shim, E.P. George, M.K. Miller, E.G. Herbert, and G.M. Pharr, "Compressive Strengths of Molybdenum Alloy Micro-Pillars Prepared Using a New Technique", Scripta Materialia 57, pp. 397-400 (2007).
2. H. Bei, S. Shim, M.K. Miller, G. M. Pharr, and E. P. George, "Effects of Focused Ion Beam Milling on the Nanomechanical Behavior of a Molybdenum-Alloy Single Crystal", Applied Physics Letters 91, 111915 (2007).
3. E.G. Herbert, W.C. Oliver, and G.M. Pharr, "Nanoindentation and the Dynamic Characterization of Viscoelastic Solids", Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 41, 074021 (2008).
4. H. Bei, Y.F. Gao, S. Shim, E.P. George, and G.M. Pharr, "Strength Differences Arising from Homogeneous vs. Heterogeneous Dislocation Nucleation", Physical Review B 77, 060103 (2008).
5. Y.F. Gao, H.T. Xu, W.C. Oliver, and G.M. Pharr, "Effective Elastic Modulus of Film-on-Substrate Systems Under Normal and Tangential Contact", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 56, pp. 402-416 (2008).
6. Sanghoon Shim, Jae-il Jang, and G.M. Pharr, "Extraction of Flow Properties of Single-Crystal Silicon Carbide by Nanoindentation and Finite-Element Simulation", Acta Materialia 56, pp. 3824-3832 (2008).
7. Jae-il Jang and G.M. Pharr, "Influence of Indenter Angle on Cracking in Si and Ge During Nanoindentation", Acta Materialia 56, pp. 4458-4469 (2008).
8. H. Bei, S. Shim, G.M. Pharr, and E.P. George, "Effects of Pre-strain on the Compressive Stress-Strain Response of Mo-alloy Single Crystal Micro-pillars", Acta Materialia 56, pp. 4762-4770 (2008).
9. S. Shim, H. Bei, E.P. George, and G.M. Pharr, "A Different Type of Indentation Size Effect", Scripta Materialia 59, pp. 1095-1098 (2008).
10. Sanghoon Shim, Jae-il Jang, and G.M. Pharr, "Effects of Focused Ion Beam Milling on the Compressive Behavior of Directionally Solidified Micro-pillars and the Nanoindentation Response of an Electro-polished Surface", Acta Materialia 57, pp. 503-510 (2009).