Polymer-source chemical vapor deposition

If the rf source is applied to the analysis of conducting bulk samples its figures of merit are very similar to those of the dc source [4.208]. This is also shown by comparative depth-profile analyses of commercial coatings an steel [4.209, 4.210]. The capability of the rf source is, however, unsurpassed in the analysis of poorly or nonconducting materials, e.g. anodic alumina films [4.211], chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-coated tool steels [4.212], composite materials such as ceramic coated steel [4.213], coated glass surfaces [4.214], and polymer coatings [4.209, 4.215, 4.216]. These coatings are used for automotive body parts and consist of a number of distinct polymer layers on a metallic substrate. The total thickness of the paint layers is typically more than 100 pm. An example of a quantitative depth profile on prepainted metal-coated steel is shown as in Fig. 4.39. 

While the decomposition of silacyclobutanes as a source of silenes has continued to be studied in the last two decades, the interest has largely focused on mechanisms and kinetic parameters. However, a few reports are listed in Table I of the presumed formation of silenes having previously unpublished substitution patterns, prepared either thermally or photo-chemically from four-membered ring compounds containing silicon. Two cases of particular interest involve the apparent formation of bis-silenes. Very low-pressure pyrolysis of l,4-bis(l-methyl-l-silacyclobutyl)ben-zene94 apparently formed the bis-silene 1, as shown in Eq. (2), which formed a high-molecular-weight polymer under conditions of chemical vapor deposition. 

The metal-on-polymer interface has been the most studied Interface as metals can conveniently be deposited by evaporation in situ 1n a controllable fashion in a UHV system (26-33). In the case of polyimide, Cu and Cr have been the most studied metals but other metals including N1, Co, Al, Au, Ag, Ge, Ce, Cs, and Si have been studied. The best experimental arrangement includes a UHV system with a load lock Introduction chamber, a preparation chamber with evaporators, heating capabilities, etc., and a separate analysis chamber. All the chambers are separated by gate valves and the samples are transferred between chambers under vacuum. Alternative metal deposition sources such as organometall1c chemical vapor deposition are promising and such techniques possibly can lead to different interface formation than obtained by metal evaporation(34). 

The cleavage of a P-Ph bond (method (1)) has been widely used to create a variety of phospholide salts. Notably, this methodology has been employed in the synthesis of group 13 phospholyl complexes, which have come to the fore in recent years as potential single source substrates for the preparation of the corresponding metal phosphides by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). This is exemplified by the reaction of lithium 2,5-di(tert-butyl)phospholide with GaBr to afford a Ga(l) polymer 297 (Scheme 101) <1999AGE1646>. Additionally, this synthesis nicely illustrates the use of bulky substituents in the position a to phosphorus to favor -coordination. 

FIGURE 3-4 Fast fracture strength at temperature for commercial fibers based on silicon compounds and alumina. PP = polymer pyrolysis, SG = sol gel, SS = slurry spinning, EDFG = edge defined film growth, CVD = chemical vapor deposition. Source DiCarlo and Dutta, 1995. 

A mediod ixbich involves the use of SCCO2 to extract out oligomers fix>m a polymer matrix has also been described. Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) was used to obtain siloxane films fiom tetravinyltetramethylcyclotetrasiloxane, (TVTMCTS, a liquid source) mixed in... 

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Vacuum deposition is the deposition of a film or coating in a low pressure plasma environment. The deposition process requires increasing the mean free path for collisions of atoms and ions. In physical vapor deposition processing (PVD), for example, this ionic activity is leveraged to sputter a surface as a source of deposition material and/or bombard a polymer film to modify the film properties. Vacuum plasmas are also used to activate reactive species in deposition processes and fragment chemical precursors in plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) processes. 

The polymer-metal interface shown in Fig. was derived from an electron micrograph obtained by Mazur and Reich.They electrodeposited silver from a silver ion solution diffusing through a polyimide film. Particles not connected to the diffusion source were removed by computer analysis. The deposited silver particles essentially "decorate the concentration profile and permit the diffusion front to be observed. A 1000-A thin slice was used to aproximate two dimensional diffusion. The fractal dimension of this interface was determined by computer analysis to be approximately 1.7. Similar ramified interface fronts are created by vapor deposition of metal atoms on polymers and by certain ion bombardment treatments of polymer surfaces. The fractal front is fairly insensitive to the details of the concentration profile. However, strong chemical potential gradients in asymmetric interfaces may promote a more planar, less ramified structure. The fractal characteristics of polymer interfaces... 

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