Multilayer crystallinity

Supermolecular Structure Polymer structure features observable at a level above that of individual polymer molecules. These include crystal structure, crystalUte, multilayer, crystalline, fibrillar, spherulitic, and fibrous morphologies. 

Hong S., MacKnight W. J., Russell T. P., and Gido S. P. (2001b) Structural evolution of multilayered, crystalline-amorphous diblock copolymer thin films. Macromolecules 34 2876-2883. 

A belief that solid interfaces are easier to understand than liquid ones shifted emphasis to the former but the subjects are not really separable, and the advances in the one are giving impetus to the other. There is increasing interest in films of biological and of liquid crystalline materials because of the importance of thin films in microcircuitry (computer chips ), there has been in recent years a surge of activity in the study of deposited mono- and multilayers. These Langmuir-Blodgett films are discussed in Section XV-7. 

Ellipsometry measurements can provide infomiation about the thickness, microroughness and dielectric ftinction of thin films. It can also provide infomiation on the depth profile of multilayer stmctiires non-destmctively, including the thickness, the composition and the degree of crystallinity of each layer [39]. The measurement of the various components of a complex multilayered film is illustrated m figure Bl.26.17 [40]. 

Figure 4 shows the basic constmetion of the devices used in different appHcations, involving the deposition of multilayers of i -SiH of intrinsic (/), doped ), and closely aUied films, such as amorphous siHcon nitride, SiN, and transparent conducting oxide (TCO). As in crystalline... 

X-ray Diffraction (XRD) is a powerful technique used to uniquely identify the crystalline phases present in materials and to measure the structural properties (strain state, grain size, epitaxy, phase composition, preferred orientation, and defect structure) of these phases. XRD is also used to determine the thickness of thin films and multilayers, and atomic arrangements in amorphous materials (including polymers) and at inter ces. 

The measured magnetic susceptibility of multilayer buckytubes for xb S approximately half xg of graphite. This can be interpreted as follows. We recall that crystalline graphite is a semimetal with a small band overlap and a low density of carriers (10 /cm )[33, 34] the in-plane effective mass is small (rn ... 

Figure 4 is an optical absorption spectrum from a multilayer assembly and shows the sharp absorption in the visible characteristic of the polydiacetylenes. Electron diffraction reveals a crystalline layered structure. However, registry between layers is less than perfect. Electron diffraction from a few layers indicates a strong possibility for growing well-oriented structures, and this is being pursued in our laboratory. 

Monolayer Polymerization. Polymerization of the highly ori-ented monomer films can simply be achieved by UV irradiation under nitrogen (Figure 8.). The polymerization of the diacetylene monomers (2, 5-9) is a topochemical reaction (32,38) that only takes place, if the monomers are perfectly orderecTT i.e. in the crystalline state or in oriented mono- (32) or multilayers (39) and leads to the formation of conjugated Tlue and red colorecT polymer backbones (Eqn. I.). 

The films are epitaxial in the sense that the lattice constant is intermediate between those of copper and nickel. As indicated above, that modulated strain is probably responsible for the increased hardness. Other authors (5) have tried to explain similar effects by stating that the layers were specifically oriented. Our example (6) demonstrates that these considerations must be reexamined since it was possible to achieve the effect in a crystalline multilayer deposited on an amorphous nickel-phosphorus underlayer. It appears that layer thickness is the important parameter here. 

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