Taxonomy

Content tagged with: Thin films

Organizations

Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute

Oregon Signature Research Center
The Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) is the first Oregon Signature Research Center. A cooperative venture among government and ...

Individuals

James J. Watkins

NSF Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Lingyan Wang


NSC Technology

Goran Karapetrov

Materials Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory

Processes

Fabrication of a nanoporous template from a diblock copolymer film - electric field alignment

An applied electric field aligns a cylindrical-phase diblock copolymer perpendicular to a substrate. One polymer block is removed by UV exposure and a chemical rinse to yield a nanoporous polymer ...

Fabrication of a nanoporous template from a diblock copolymer film - neutral brush

A perpendicular orientation of cylindrical microdomains in diblock copolymer thin films is achieved by control over polymer-surface interactions. The block which forms cylindrical microdomains is ...

Fabrication of a nanoporous template from a diblock copolymer film - solvent annealing

An evaporation-induced flow in solvent cast block copolymer films can produce arrays of nanoscopic cylinders oriented normal to the surface and solvent annealing could markedly enhance the ordering ...

Gallery Images

Field of Ferns

Nano-imprint lithography is a cutting-edge technique that enables the preparation of materials with pattern features that are as small as 20nm, or 1000 times smaller than the diameter of a human ...

In the Beginning

Spin Art is a popular children's art project. Paint is placed in the center of a sheet of cardboard and then rapidly spun to spread out the paint. This is exactly the same as an important commercial ...

Matt's Ripples Pinned

Like ripples in the sand on a beach at low tide, similar patterns occur by solvent casting thin polymer films. As the film dries, the solution pulls back, just like the tide. An optical microscope ...

Wrinkles

Four thin films of varying thickness are wrinkled by a .2mg drop of water. As the films increase in thickness, the number of wrinkles caused by the droplets decreases while the length of the wrinkles ...