Instrumentation for Enhanced Thin Polymer Film Preparation and Characterization as Photonic Systems

Abstract

The instruments purchased or built include: 1. a KSV automated Alternating Layer System, which allows the efficient deposition of alternating Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers from monolayers at the gas-water interface. 2. a KSV spectroscopy trough, which was substantially enhanced to allow laser light scattering spectroscopy at the gas-water interface, observation of morphology at the gas-water interface by Brewster angle microscopy and second harmonic generation measurements of orientation at the gas-water interface. 3. a NanoFilm corporation thin film maker for industrially efficient formation of ultrathin films was built. 4. A Houston Image Force Microscope was purchased and is being used to study the topography and structure of these layers as well as intermolecular forces between the probe and the surface.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1998
Accession Number
ADA386981

Entities

People

  • J. A. Mann Jr.

Organizations

  • Case Western Reserve University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Diffraction
  • Films
  • Instrumentation
  • Langmuir Blodgett Films
  • Laser Diodes
  • Lasers
  • Light Scattering
  • Liquid Crystals
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Monomolecular Films
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Scattering
  • Second Harmonic Generation
  • Spectroscopy

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Marine Propulsion Engineering and Naval Architecture
  • Polymer Science and Technology
  • Superconducting Magnet Technology

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Pulsed-Laser Deposition