Self-consistent field simulations of self- and directed-assembly in a mixed polymer brush

Soft Matter

Volumn 7, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 8776-8788

  Hur, Su Mi ^a,c   Frischknecht, Amalie L ^b   Huber, Dale L ^b   Fredrickson, Glenn H ^a,c  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMER THIN FILMS; DIRECTED SELF-ASSEMBLY; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; FIRST-ORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-PLANE; LATERAL CONFINEMENT; LITHOGRAPHIC TOOLS; MIXED POLYMERS; MODEL EQUATIONS; PHASE SEPARATED MORPHOLOGY; POLYMER CHAINS; SELF- AND DIRECTED-ASSEMBLY; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SELF-ASSEMBLING BLOCK COPOLYMERS; SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD; SELF-CONSISTENT-FIELD THEORY; SPHERICAL MORPHOLOGIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; TOP SURFACE;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; MEAN FIELD THEORY; MICROPHASE SEPARATION; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SELF ASSEMBLY; THIN FILMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BRUSHES;

EID: 84855569025     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05747b     Document Type: Article

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