Thermal disordering of langmuir-blodgett films of cadmium stearate on sapphire

✍ Scribed by L. Rothberg; G.S. Higashi; D.L. Allara; S. Garoff

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 497 KB
• Volume: 133
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(87)80055-6

✦ Synopsis

The phase behavior of monolayer and multilayer Langmuir-Blodgett films of cadmium stearate on sapphire is studied using pulsed optoacoustic spectroscopy of the methyl and methylene stretching modes. Heating irreversibly disorders monolayer films but multilayers reach a stable configuration which undergoes reversible phase transitions.