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Thin films are easily prepared for encapsulation. Typically, a cork borer or a clean paper punch is used to punch several sample specimen disks from the larger thin film sheet. These disks should be sized to fit snuggly in the sample pan and cover the bottom of the pan. They should be stacked until the sample specimen mass is more than 3 mg. Other tools that can be used for thin film preparation are scissors or razor blades. If irregularly shaped thin film sample specimens are prepared, then cover the bottom of the sample pan and stack them evenly in a similar fashion as the disks. 

Fig. 3.15 (a) Conductivity responses for three donut-shaped thin-film sensors based on carbon-doped poly 4-vinyl phenol (b, c) conductivity responses of carbon-doped polyvinyl acetate to (b) temperature and (c) air humidity. The polymer films swell in response to the presence of a particular gas which increases the distance between the carbon dopants and changes the resistance of the film. These results were obtained from 3-day experiments in an air ambient where the gas sensors were kept in stagnant air (Data from Buchler and Ryan (1997))... 

The particles in colloidal silica have a spherical shape. Some colloidal particles are rod-shaped, and some, like gamma globulin in human blood plasma, have a disc-like shape. Thin films, like an oil slick on water, are colloidal. And some colloids, such as cellulose fibers, are randomly coiled filaments. 

The topic of capillarity concerns interfaces that are sufficiently mobile to assume an equilibrium shape. The most common examples are meniscuses, thin films, and drops formed by liquids in air or in another liquid. Since it deals with equilibrium configurations, capillarity occupies a place in the general framework of thermodynamics in the context of the macroscopic and statistical behavior of interfaces rather than the details of their molectdar structure. In this chapter we describe the measurement of surface tension and present some fundamental results. In Chapter III we discuss the thermodynamics of liquid surfaces. 

Fluorination of tungsten and rhenium produces tungsten hexafluoride, WF, and rhenium hexafluoride [10049-17-9J, ReF, respectively. These volatile metal fluorides are used in the chemical vapor deposition industry to produce metal coatings and intricately shaped components (see Thin films,... 

Fig. 4. Schematic representation of a two-dimensional model to account for the shear modulus of a foam. The foam stmcture is modeled as a coUection of thin films the Plateau borders and any other fluid between the bubbles is ignored. Furthermore, aH the bubbles are taken to be uniform in size and shape.

In the case of Co—Cr having perpendicular anisotropy there is, in principle, a competition between the uniaxial anisotropy of a hexagonal stmcture and the demagnetizing energy of the thin film. In the case of magnetically separated Co—Cr columns (particulate morphology) then also the shape anisotropy contributes to the perpendicular anisotropy. 

Coercivity of Thin-Film Media. The coercivity ia a magnetic material is an important parameter for appHcations but it is difficult to understand its physical background. It can be varied from nearly zero to more than 2000 kA/m ia a variety of materials. For thin-film recording media, values of more than 250 kA / m have been reported. First of all the coercivity is an extrinsic parameter and is strongly iafluenced by the microstmctural properties of the layer such as crystal size and shape, composition, and texture. These properties are directly related to the preparation conditions. Material choice and chemical inborn ogeneties are responsible for the Af of a material and this is also an influencing parameter of the final In crystalline material, the crystalline anisotropy field plays an important role. It is difficult to discriminate between all these parameters and to understand the coercivity origin ia the different thin-film materials ia detail. 

Acoustic Measurements. Measurement of the propagation of ultrasonic acoustic waves has been found useful for determining the viscoelastic properties of thin films of adhesives. In this method, the specimen is clamped between transmitting and receiving transducers. The change in pulse shape between successive reverberation of the pulse is dependent on the viscoelastic properties of the transmitting material. Modulus values can be calculated (267,268). 

RAIRS spectra contain absorption band structures related to electronic transitions and vibrations of the bulk, the surface, or adsorbed molecules. In reflectance spectroscopy the ahsorhance is usually determined hy calculating -log(Rs/Ro), where Rs represents the reflectance from the adsorhate-covered substrate and Rq is the reflectance from the bare substrate. For thin films with strong dipole oscillators, the Berre-man effect, which can lead to an additional feature in the reflectance spectrum, must also be considered (Sect. 4.9 Ellipsometry). The frequencies, intensities, full widths at half maximum, and band line-shapes in the absorption spectrum yield information about adsorption states, chemical environment, ordering effects, and vibrational coupling. 

At a given flow condition, different flow patterns were observed which can be classified into five distinct patterns depending on the interfacial configuration liquid alone (or liquid slug), gas core with a smooth thin liquid film, gas core with a smooth thick liquid film, gas core with a ring-shaped liquid film, and gas core with a deformed interface. 

SOL-GELTECHNOLOGY FOR THIN FILMS, FIBERS, PREFORMS, ELECTRONICS AND SPECIALTY SHAPES edited by Lisa C. Klein... 

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