Nanoscale thermal-mechanical probe determination of 'softening transitions' in thin polymer films

Nanotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 49, 2008, Pages

  Zhou, Jing ^a   Berry, Brian ^a   Douglas, Jack F ^a   Karim, Alamgir ^a   Snyder, Chad R ^a   Soles, Christopher ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; MAGNETIC FILMS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYSTYRENES; SUBSTRATES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

ATOMIC FORCES; CONDUCTIVE SUBSTRATES; DOPED SILICONS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; GLASSY POLYSTYRENES; LENGTH SCALES; MECHANICAL PROBES; NANOSCALE; PS FILMS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENTS; QUANTITATIVE STUDIES; RAMPING RATES; RIGID SUBSTRATES; SCANNING PROBE TECHNIQUES; SOFTENING BEHAVIORS; SOFTENING TEMPERATURES; SQUARE ROOTS; THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THIN POLYMER FILMS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURES;

POLYMER FILMS;

NANOFILM; NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER; POLYSTYRENE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MECHANICAL PROBE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NANOPROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SIMULATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMODYNAMICS; THICKNESS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 58149234944     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/19/49/495703     Document Type: Article

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