Probing the early stages of solvent evaporation and relaxation in solvent-cast polymer thin films by spectroscopic ellipsometry

Surface and Interface Analysis

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1448-1452

  Lopez Garcia I ^a   Keddie, J L ^a   Sferrazza, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ellipsometry; solvent evaporation; thin polymer films

Indexed keywords

BROMOBENZENE; EVAPORATION RATE; FILM FORMATIONS; GLASSY FILMS; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; IN-SITU; NANO-VOIDS; POLYMER THIN FILMS; SOLVENT EVAPORATION; THIN POLYMER FILMS;

ESTERS; EVAPORATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYMERIC FILMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLVENTS; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; THIN FILMS;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 80053944980     PISSN: 01422421     EISSN: 10969918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sia.3728     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. C. Gourgon, J. H. Tortai, F. Lazzarino, C. Perret, G. Micouin, O. Joubert, S. Landis, J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B 2004, 22, 602.
2. T. Wang, A. D. F. Dunbar, P. A. Staniec, A. J. Pearson, P. E. Hopkinson, J. E. MacDonald, S. Lilliu, C. Pizzey, N. J. Terrill, A. M. Donald, A. J. Ryan, R. A. L. Jones, D. G. Lidzey, Soft Matter. 2010, 6, 4128.
3. G. Binnig, M. Despont, U. Drechsler, W. Häberle, M. Lutwyche, P. Vettiger, H. J. Mamin, B. W. Chui, T. W. Kenny, Appl. Phys. Lett. 1999, 74, 1329.
4. G. Reiter, P. G. de Gennes, Eur. Phys. J. E, 2001, 6, 25.
5. F. N. Kelly, F. Bouche, J. Polym. Sci. 1961, 50, 549.
6. G. B. McKenna, J. Phys. IV 2000, 10, 7.
7. J. Huchinson, Prog. Polym. Sci. 1995, 20, 703.
8. H. Richardson, M. Sferrazza, J. L. Keddie, Eur. Phys. E 2003, 12, 021.
9. P. C. Jukes, S. Y. Heriot, J. S. Sharp, R. A. L. Jones, Macromolecules 2005, 38, 2030.
10. J. Perlich, V. Körstgens, E. Metwalli, L. Schulz, R. Georgii, P. Müller-Buschbaum, Macromolecules 2009, 42, 337.
11. J. L. Keddie, Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci. 2001, 6, 102.
12. H. Richardson, J. L. Keddie, I. Lopez-Garcia, M. Sferrazza, Phys. Rev. E 2004, 70, 051805.
13. í. López-García, J. L. Keddie, M. Sferrazza, (in press) doi:10.1038/pj.2010.123.
14. A. J. Kovacs, Fortschr. Hochpolym.-Forsch. 1964, 3, 394.
15. N. J. Mills, in Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, 10 2nd Edition (Eds:, H. F. Mark, N. M. Bikales, C. G. Overberger, G. Menges, J. I. Kroschwitz,), John Wiley and Sons: NY, 1987.
16. R. M. A. Azzam, N. M. Bashara, Ellipsometry and Polarized Light, North-Holland: 1977.
17. D. A. Bruggeman, Ann. Phys. 1935, 24, 635, 665.
18. S. W. Marquardt, J. Soc. Ind. Appl. Math. 1963, 11, 431.
19. Polymer Handbook (Eds:, J. Brandrup, D. H. Immergut, E. A. Grulke, A. Abe, Akihiro, D., Bloch, R., Daniel,) Wiley & Sons: NY, 2005.
20. D. E. Aspnes, J. B. Theeten, F. Hottier, Phys Rev B 1979, 20, 3292.
21. D. A. Styrkas, J. L. Keddie, J. R. Lu, T. J. Su, P. A. Zhdan, J. Appl. Phys. 1999, 85, 868.
22. G. Dlubek, J. Pionteck, K. Rätzke, J. Kruse, F. Faupel, Macromolecules 2008, 41, 6125.