Oligo(vinylidene fluoride) Langmuir-Blodgett films studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry and the density functional theory

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Korlacki, R ^a,b   Johnson, J Travis ^a   Kim, Jihee ^a   Ducharme, Stephen ^a   Thompson, Daniel W ^a   Fridkin, V M ^c   Ge, Zhongxin ^a   Takacs, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELLIPSOMETRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OLIGOMERS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SILICONES; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; SUBSTRATES; THICK FILMS;

AMPHIPHILIC; DATA SETS; EXPERIMENTAL SPECTRA; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; IR BANDS; LANGMUIR-BLODGETT DEPOSITION; LB FILMS; LONG AXIS; MID-INFRARED; POLY-VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE; POLYMER CHAINS; SILICONE SUBSTRATES; SUBSTRATE PLANES; THIN FILMS; VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILMS;

EID: 49749099276     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2965819     Document Type: Article

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