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Area function as the square root of contact area over contact depth for the spherical indenter of 30.6 µm radius. The blue solid line depicts an ideal sphere with the same radius. The segment below 0.3 µm contact depth includes measurement data from fused silica and sphere, while the data above are only from fused silica.
