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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 27.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Nano. 2011 Aug 12;5(9):6945–6954. doi: 10.1021/nn2014003

Table 1.

A) Summary of modulus and hardness derived from loading and unloading part. B) Summary of in-plane and out-of-plane modulus obtained from Brillouin light scattering.

A-nanoindentation Loading Unloading
Modulus (GPa) 9 ± 1 8 ± 1
Hardness (GPa) 0.46 ± 0.04 0.45 ± 0.05
B-Brillouin light scattering In plane Out of plane
Modulus (GPa) 22 ± 1.1 11.8 ± 0.6