Similarities between Rainmaking Processes and Thin Film Growth Processes.

An STM study of molecular exchange processes in organic thin film growth.

The growth of a fullerene derivative (PCBM) on top of a layer of a tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) derivative previously deposited on Au(111) has been studied by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The results show that the preferential interaction with the gold substrate induces the exchange of PCBM molecules with the exTTF monolayer, expelling exTTF molecules to the outer surface. This exchange pro...

Fluctuations and Thin Film Growth

Two-dimensional mound coarsening is studied using a continuum model in which the effects of deposition noise have been included but in which coalescence due to mass transfer is assumed to be negligible as expected at low temperature. In agreement with scaling arguments for the case of fluctuation-dominated mound coarsening, we find n = β = 1/3, where n is the mound coarsening exponent and β is ...

Abbas Kiarostami, Family Film and the Techno-cultural Processes of Transcultural Viewing

In this paper Abbas Kiarostami's films for children are discussed from the perspective of a cognitive studies approach. The crux of the argument is that the visual elements of film are essentially metonymic. Where is My Friend’s Home? has a quest-script instantiated by means of four components drawn on Brown and Babbington. Transcultural viewing is enabled by techno-cu...

Alumina Thin Film Growth: Experiments and Modeling

High-temperature CVD processes for crystalline silicon thin-film and wafer solar cells