Convection Induced Self-Organization in Electroless Deposition Experiments

Convection Induced Self-Organization in Electroless Deposition Experiments

We present the first evidence for spatio-temporal merging dynamics in thin

Electroless Deposition and Electroplating of Metals

Self-organization and nanostructure formation in chemical vapor deposition.

When thin films are grown on a substrate by chemical vapor deposition, the evolution of the first deposited layers may be described, on mesoscopic scales, by dynamical models of the reaction-diffusion type. For monatomic layers, such models describe the evolution of atomic coverage due to the combined effect of reaction terms representing adsorption-desorption and chemical processes and nonline...

Seedless micropatterning of copper by electroless deposition on self-assembled monolayers

A novel approach for direct electroless (EL) patterning of copper films without catalysts has been developed. In a special electroless solution employed in the present study, the formation of copper particles was observed and the negatively charged surfaces were confirmed by zeta potential measurements. The conditions of the solution (ionic strength, pH, temperature, additives etc.) greatly aff...

Self-organization in a diversity induced thermodynamics

In this work we show how global self-organized patterns can come out of a disordered ensemble of point oscillators, as a result of a deterministic, and not of a random, cooperative process. The resulting system dynamics has many characteristics of classical thermodynamics. To this end, a modified Kuramoto model is introduced, by including Euclidean degrees of freedom and particle polarity. The ...