The plane-strain bulge test is used to investigate the mechanical behavior of freestanding electroplated Cu thin films as a function of film thickness and microstructure. The stiffness of the films increases slightly with decreasing film thickness because of changes in the crystallographic texture and the elastic anisotropy of Cu. Experimental stiffness values agree well with values derived fro...

In this review paper, recent progress in the fabrication, transfer, and fundamental physical properties of freestanding oxide perovskite thin films is discussed. First, main strategies for synthesis transfer are analyzed. initial section, particular attention devoted to use water-soluble (Ca,Sr,Ba)3Al2O6 as sacrificial layers, one most promising techniques fabrication membranes. The functionali...

Conventional approaches to flexible optoelectronic devices typically require depositing the active materials on external substrates. This is mostly due to the weak bonding between individual molecules or nanocrystals in the active materials, which prevents sustaining a freestanding thin film. Herein we demonstrate an ultrathin freestanding ZnO quantum dot (QD) active layer with nanocellulose st...

Article history: Received 25 October 2015 Received in revised form 2 December 2015 Accepted 3 December 2015 Available online 17 December 2015 We investigated the strain rate sensitivity (SRS) of freestanding ultrafine-grained aluminum films with similar thickness (~240 nm) and mean grain size (~275 nm) but highly dissimilar texture. For (110) textured bicrystalline films, flow stress increased ...

We report electro-optic experiments in liquid crystalline freestanding films of achiral hockey stick shaped mesogens with a straight aromatic core. The material forms two smectic mesophases. In the higher temperature phase, a spontaneous polarization exists in the smectic layer plane and the films show polar switching in electric fields. It is the first example of a ferroelectric phase formed b...

In 1984 Decker et al.' reported the measurement of thermal conductivity for freestanding thin films of Si02 and A1203. Values were found to be one to two orders of magnitude lower than those for the corresponding bulk materials. The authors attributed this difference to the unique microstructure of dielectric thin films (primarily columnar for vapor-deposited coatingsz), which, along with defec...

In the present work, we succeeded in alternatively depositing inorganic nanoparticles and functionalized DNA bases onto the water/oil interface from the water and oil bulk phases. The ligands used were functional thymines and adenines. Their thiol and phosphate groups were used to cap inorganic nanoparticles and their thymine and adenine groups to alter the surface functionality of the nanopart...