You can search it in NIST library. If you need help please call me at
(301)975-4598 or e-mail me. By the way, I am not quit sure what you want, is
it the mechanical wear properties of silicon or that of silicon coating.
Good luck.
Dr. Jun Zhang

At 12:42 PM 12/27/96 -0500, Perry Skeath wrote:
>I'm looking for references that compare the mechanical wear properties of
>silicon to similar properties of common metals used for gears, etc.
>
>Can anyone give me some help in locating such information?
>
>Perry Skeath
>SprayChip Systems Corp.
>(formerly Integrated Technologies For Microsystems, Inc.)
>9730 Martin Luther King Hwy., Suite D-7
>Lanham, MD  20706-1810
>(301) 577-1788 (voice)
>(301) 577-2903 (fax)
>
>
>
>
>

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