Grazing incidence small-angle neutron scattering: Challenges and possibilities

Polymer Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 34-42

  Müller Buschbaum, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

block copolymer; dewetting; GISANS; polymer nanostructure; thin film

Indexed keywords

DE-WETTING; DIBLOCK CO-POLYMER FILMS; GISANS; GRAZING INCIDENCE; INCIDENT ANGLES; LATERAL CORRELATION; LATERAL STRUCTURES; NANOSTRUCTURED POLYMERS; POLYMER NANOSTRUCTURES; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; REAL-SPACE ANALYSIS; RECIPROCAL SPACE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SURFACE; SMALL SAMPLES; SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; STATISTICAL INFORMATION; SURFACE SENSITIVITY; THIN-FILM GEOMETRY; TRIBLOCK COPOLYMER THIN FILMS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; DAMAGE DETECTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; OPTICS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84872190016     PISSN: 00323896     EISSN: 13490540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pj.2012.190     Document Type: Review

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