Surface micromorphology characterization of PDI8-CN2 thin films on H-Si by AFM analysis

Growth and Characterization of Ti-Si-N Thin Films

Afm Studies on Surface Morphology, Topography and Texture of Nanostructured Zinc Aluminum Oxide Thin Films

Zinc Aluminum Oxide (ZAO) thin films were deposited on glass substrates by DC reactive magnetron sputtering technique with high purity Zn and Al targets. After the deposition, the films were annealed in vacuum from 200 to 500 C. Surface roughness measurement of ZAO thin films in the nanometer scale can be accurately determined using the atomic force microscopy. Surface roughness and grain size ...

Conducting AFM and 2D GIXD studies on pentacene thin films.

Among all organic semiconductors, pentacene has been shown to have the highest thin film mobility reported to date. The crystalline structure of the first few pentacene layers deposited on a dielectric substrate is strongly dependent on the dielectric surface properties, directly affecting the charge mobility of pentacene thin film OTFTs. Herein, we report that there is a direct correlation bet...

Kinetics of silicide formation by thin films of V on Si and Si 0 2 substrates *

The reaction rate of vacuum-evaporated films of V of the order of I 000 A thick is investigated by MeV He backscattering spectrometry. On substrates of single-crystal Si and for anneal times up to several hours in the temperature range 570--650 ·c, VSi 2 is formed at a linear rate in time. The activation energy of the process is 1.7±0.2 eV. The presence of oxygen in amounts of 10% can significa...

Characterization of Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett films of a thiomacrocyclic ionophore by surface pressure and AFM.

The new synthesized thiomacrocyclic ionophore 4-phenyl-4-sulfide-11-(1-oxodecyl)-1,7-dithia-11-aza-4-phosphacyclotetradecane has proven to form Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films. This ionophore shows a large affinity for copper(II) ions. Thus, the influence of the subphase composition on the surface pressure-area isotherms has been studied. The LB films have been observed by AFM and the...