ERRATA: REVERSIBLE HILLOCK GROWTH IN THIN FILMS

Epitaxial growth of thin films

The term ‘epitaxial’ is applied to a film grown on top of the crystalline substrate in ordered fashion that atomic arrangement of the film accepts crystallographic structure of the substrate. Epitaxial growth is one of the most important techniques to fabricate various ‘state of the art’ electronic and optical devices. Modern devices require very sophisticated structure, which are composed of t...

Epitaxial Growth of Thin Films

This chapter gives an introduction to the epitaxial growth of thin films on solid substrates. The term epitaxy refers to the growth of a crystalline layer on (epi) the surface of a crystalline substrate, where the crystallographic orientation of the substrate surface imposes a crystalline order (taxis) onto the thin film. This implies that film elements can be grown, up to a certain thickness, ...

Competitive Phase Growth in Stressed Thin Films

Self-Limited Growth in Pentacene Thin Films

Pentacene is one of the most studied organic semiconducting materials. While many aspects of the film formation have already been identified in very thin films, this study provides new insight into the transition from the metastable thin-film phase to bulk phase polymorphs. This study focuses on the growth behavior of pentacene within thin films as a function of film thickness ranging from 20 t...

Reversible Laser Annealing on YB ~ , CU , O , - ~ Thin Films

High-temperature YBn2Cuj07-s thin films were patterned by a laser writing technique based on the wmperL\ture increase i n the focus of a laser beam. The corresponding local increase of the oxygen diffusion velocity can be employed to write reversibly deoxygenated (semiconducting) and reoxygenated (superconduct~ n p ) patterns. if nitrogen or oxygen, respectively, is chosen as ambient atmosphere...