Thin Films: Preparation, Characterization, Applications

✍ Scribed by Manuel P. Soriaga, John Stickney, Lawrence A. Bottomley, Youn-Geun Kim (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 361
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is about thin films; what they are, how they are prepared, how they are characterized, and what they are used for. The contents of this book not only showcase the diversity of thin films, but also reveals the commonality among the work performed in a variety of areas. The chapters in this volume are based on invited papers presented by prominent researchers in the field at a Symposium on "Thin Films: Preparation, Characterization, Applications" at the 221st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society held in San Diego, California. The coverage of the symposium was extensive; topics ranged from highly-ordered metal adlayers on well-defined electrode surfaces to bio-organic films on non-metallic nanoparticles. An objective of this book is for the readers to be able to draw from the experience and results of others in order to improve and expand the understanding of the science and technology of their own thin films systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Highly Ordered Adsorbate Structures on Cu(111) in the Potential Regime of Hydrogen Evolution-An In-Situ STM Study....Pages 1-16
Electrochemical Epitaxial Growth, Structure, and Electrocatalytic Properties of Noble Metal Thin Films on Au(111) and Au(100)....Pages 17-35
Electrochemical Properties of Pd/Pt(111) Adlayers....Pages 37-52
Temperature-Dependence of the Under-Potential Deposition of Ag on Pt(111) in H 2 SO 4 ....Pages 53-67
Functionalization of Underpotentially Deposited Metal Layers with Organics, Metals, and Ions....Pages 69-81
Morphology in Electrochemical Atomic Layer Epitaxy....Pages 83-93
Overview on the Ultrathin Films Formation of II-VI Compound Semiconductors on Silver by Electrochemical Atomic Layer Epitaxy....Pages 95-112
Electrodeposition of Nanostructured Mesoporous Selenium Films....Pages 113-120
Experimental and Theoretical Studies on Branched Electrodeposits in Thin-Layer Cells....Pages 121-135
Self-Assembled Magnetic Nanoparticle Arrays by Anodization and Electrodeposition....Pages 137-156
Solution Chemical Routes to Two-Dimensional Bismuth Tellurides for Thermoelectric Applications....Pages 157-169
Growth Kinetics of Multi-Layer CuEtX Films on Copper Piezoelectrodes....Pages 171-184
The Interfacial Chemistry of Grignard Reagent Formation: Reactions of Clean Mg(0001) Surfaces....Pages 185-196
Ultrathin Film Electrodeposition of Conjugated Polymers on Conducting Surfaces....Pages 197-213
Self-Assembled Monolayers as Models for Polymeric Interfaces....Pages 215-230
Structure and Electronic Properties of Self-Assembled Macrocycle and Polymer Multilayers....Pages 231-243
Chemically-Attached Organic Monolayers on Silica Nanoparticles as an NMR Relaxation Medium for Embedded Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons....Pages 245-251
Preparation of Thin-Film Alumina for Catalytic Activity Studies....Pages 253-264
EQCN Study of Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Methanol at Nanostructured Catalysts....Pages 265-275
Solid State 13 C MAS NMR Investigations of Amorphous Carbon Thin Films....Pages 277-289
Comparison of Contact Angle Measurements Using Various Probe Liquids on Incomplete OTS SAMS....Pages 291-300
Valence Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Non-Volatile Organometallic Molecules....Pages 301-307
Humidity Effect on the Stability of an Octadecyltriethoxysilane Monolayer Self-Assembled on Mica....Pages 309-317
Chemical Vapor Deposition of Silanes on Plain and Microfabricated Silicon Surfaces....Pages 319-325
Characterization of Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Thin Films on Silicon for Implantable Microdevices....Pages 327-336
AFM Imaging of Liquid Structures: From Droplet Profiles to Molecular Interactions....Pages 337-347
Microcantilever Sensing of Particles in Liquid Streams: Thin-Film Coating Impacts Sensor Performance....Pages 349-359
Back Matter....Pages 361-367

✦ Subjects

Polymer Sciences; Physical Chemistry; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials