Switching the fracture toughness of single-crystal ZnS using light irradiation

  • Tingting Zhu
    Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, Technical University of Darmstadt 1 , 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
  • Kuan Ding
    Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, Technical University of Darmstadt 1 , 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
  • Yu Oshima
    Department of Materials Physics, Nagoya University 2 , Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464–8603, Japan
  • Anahid Amiri
    Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, Technical University of Darmstadt 1 , 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
  • Enrico Bruder
    Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, Technical University of Darmstadt 1 , 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
  • Robert W. Stark
    Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, Technical University of Darmstadt 1 , 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
  • Karsten Durst
    Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, Technical University of Darmstadt 1 , 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
  • Katsuyuki Matsunaga
    Department of Materials Physics, Nagoya University 2 , Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464–8603, Japan
  • Atsutomo Nakamura
    Department of Materials Physics, Nagoya University 2 , Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464–8603, Japan
  • Xufei Fang
    Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, Technical University of Darmstadt 1 , 64287 Darmstadt, Germany

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<jats:p>An enormous change in the dislocation-mediated plasticity has been found in a bulk semiconductor that exhibits the photoplastic effect. Herein, we report that UV (365 nm) light irradiation during mechanical testing dramatically decreases the fracture toughness of ZnS. The crack tip toughness on a (001) single-crystal ZnS, as measured by the near-tip crack opening displacement method, is increased by ∼45% in complete darkness compared to that in UV light. The increase in fracture toughness is attributed to a significant increase in the dislocation mobility in darkness, as explained by the crack tip dislocation shielding model. Our finding suggests a route toward controlling the fracture toughness of photoplastic semiconductors by tuning the light irradiation.</jats:p>

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