How disjoining pressure drives the dewetting of a polymer film on a silicon surface

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 3496-3499

  Kim, Hyun I ^a   Mate, C Mathew ^b   Hannibal, Kelly A ^b   Perry, Scott S ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELLIPSOMETRY; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; MONOLAYERS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; POLYETHERS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SILICON WAFERS; SUBSTRATES;

DEWETTING; DISJOINING PRESSURE;

PLASTIC FILMS;

EID: 0032606226     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3496     Document Type: Article

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