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The feasibility of adapting scanning tunneling microscope (STM) technology to investigate the transition from reversible to irreversible behavior in mechanical systems is demonstrated. Using an STM with a graphite sample, both regimes of reversible and irreversible response to electrostrictive cycling are observed.
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Erber et al. (1990) studied this question.
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