picoindentation

English

Etymology

pico- +‎ indentation

Noun

picoindentation (plural picoindentations)

1. picoscale indentation
   • 2016, Nicholas A. Yaraghi, Nicolás Guarín-Zapata, Lessa K. Grunenfelder, Eric Hintsala, Sanjit Bhowmick, Jon M. Hiller, Mark Betts, Edward L. Principe, Jae-Young Jung, Leigh Sheppard, Richard Wuhrer, Joanna McKittrick, Pablo D. Zavattieri, David Kisailus, “A Sinusoidally-Architected Helicoidal Biocomposite”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Nanoscale toughening mechanisms are also identified using high load nanoindentation and in-situ TEM picoindentation..