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Wrinkling of Ultrathin Polymer Films

June 1, 2006
Author(s)
Rui Huang, Christopher Stafford, B D. Vogt
This paper presents a bilayer model to account for surface effects on the wrinkling of ultrathin polymer films. Assuming a surface layer of finite thickness, effects of surface properties on the critical strain, the equilibrium wavelength, and the wrinkle

Probing the Interfacial Adhesion Strength in Compositional Libraries of Epoxy Films

May 1, 2006
Author(s)
Christopher Stafford, J Y. Kim, D Kawaguchi, Gareth Royston, Martin Chiang
We are developing a measurement platform, based on the edge lift-off test geometry, geared towards combinatorial and high-throughput (C&HT) assessment of interfacial reliability in thermally cured epoxy materials. A critical parameter space to be explored

Measuring the Modulus of Soft Polymer Networks via a Buckling-Based Metrology

April 1, 2006
Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Wilder, Shu Guo, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Michael J. Fasolka, Christopher Stafford
We present a new method for measuring the modulus of soft polymer networks (E 10 MPa).This metrology utilizes compression-induced buckling of a sensor film applied to the surface of the specimen,where the periodic buckling wavelength, assessed rapidly by

One-Laser Interferometric Broadband Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering

March 30, 2006
Author(s)
T W. Kee, Hongxia (Jessica) Zhao, Marcus T. Cicerone
We introduce an interferometric technique for eliminating the nonresonant background of broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy. CARS microscopy has been used for imaging a number of biological samples and processes, but the

Effects of Humidity on Unencapsulated Poly(thiophene) Thin Film Transistors

March 13, 2006
Author(s)
Michael L. Chabinyc, Fred Endicott, B D. Vogt, Dean DeLongchamp, Eric K. Lin, Yiliang Wu, Ping Liu, Beng S. Ong
The effects of humidity on unencapsulated polymeric thin-film transistors (TFTs) were investigated. TFTs were fabricated on glass substrates with inorganic gate dielectric and a semiconducting layer of poly[5,5 -bis(3-dodecyl-2-thienyl)-2,2 -bithiophene]

Cellular Response to Phase-Separated Blends of Tyrosine-Derived Polycarbonate

March 1, 2006
Author(s)
L A. Bailey, Matthew Becker, J S. Stephens, Nathan D. Gallant, Christine M. Mahoney, N Washburn, Aarti Rege, J Kohn, Eric J. Amis
Tyrosine-derived polycarbonates are extremely promising degradable materials for use in orthpedic applications and two-dimensional thin films consisting of homopolymer and discrete compositional blends of the ethyl (DTE) and octyl (DTO) ester polycarbonate

Fundamentals of the Reaction-Diffusion Process in Model EUV Photoresists

March 1, 2006
Author(s)
Kristopher Lavery, George Thompson, Hai Deng, D S. Fryer, Kwang-Woo Choi, B D. Vogt, Vivek Prabhu, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu, Sushil K. Satija, Michael Leeson, Heidi B. Cao
More demanding requirements are being made of photoresist materials for fabrication of nanostructures as the feature critical dimensions (CD) decrease. For EUV resists, control of line width roughness (LWR) and high resist sensitivity are key requirements

Estimation of the Interfacial Adhesion Strength in Compositional Libraries of Epoxy Films

February 22, 2006
Author(s)
Jae Hyun Kim, Martin Y. Chiang, D Kawaguchi, Gareth Royston, Christopher M. Stafford
At the NIST Combinatorial Methods Center (NCMC), we have designed, developed, and demonstrated a combinatorial approach to the edge delamination test to char-acterize the adhesion of thin polymer films. This test is based on fracture of a film/substrate

Dissolution Fundamentals of 193-nm Methacrylate Based Photoresists

February 19, 2006
Author(s)
Ashwin Rao, Shuhui Kang, B D. Vogt, Vivek Prabhu, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu, Karen Turnquest, W D. Hinsberg
The dissolution of partially deprotected chemically amplified photoresists is the final step in printing lithographic features. Since this process step can be tuned independently from the design of the photoresist chemistry, fundamental measurements of the

Generating Thickness Gradients of Thin Polymer Films via Flow Coating

February 1, 2006
Author(s)
Christopher Stafford, Kristen Roskov, Thomas Epps, Michael J. Fasolka
Thickness is a governing factor in the behavior of films and coatings. To enable the high-throughputanalysis of this parameter in polymer systems, we detail the design and operation of a flow coater device for fabricating continuous libraries of polymer

Mirofluidic Appproach for Rapid Interfacial Tensiometry

February 1, 2006
Author(s)
J Cabral, Steven Hudson
We report a microfluidic instrument to rapidly measure the interfacial tension of multi-component immiscible liquids. The measurement principle rests upon the deformation and retraction dynamics of drops under extensional flow and was implemented in

Effect of Shear Flow on Multi-Component Polymer Mixtures

January 1, 2006
Author(s)
Charles C. Han, Yonghua Yao, C.L. Zhang, Erik K. Hobbie
There is considerable interest in the phase behavior of multi-component polymer mixtures, the so-called polymer blends, due to their broad technological importance in the plastics industry. Traditionally, quiescent conditions have been adopted for
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