Of crucial importance to the thin film process engineer is an understanding of the parameters which affect the film thickness distributions which may be obtained from magnetron sources. This paper describes how variations in source design, target erosion and source-to-substrate distance affect observed uniformities from a magnetron source. A simple method of simulating magnetron sources using t...

[1] We present the results of new laboratory experiments that provide constraints on inter bubble film thinning and bubble coalescence as a consequence of liquid expulsion by gravitational and capillary forces. To ensure dynamic similarity to magmatic systems, the experiments are at small Reynolds numbers Re 1 ð Þ and cover a wide range of Bond numbers (10 3 Bo 10). Results indicate that at Bo<...

We have studied the fracture, strain, and stress of electrophoretically deposited EPD films of CdSe nanocrystals as a function of the film thickness, nanocrystal size, and drying method. Fracture results from the film stress that develops with the loss of residual solvent after EPD when the film exceeds a threshold thickness that increases with nanocrystal core diameter from 300 to 1200 nm for ...

O/)licrrl iirtciferoi~~ctiy is used to stz~lly the film thickness of pccrses, colrl of soap srcspeiuioiu and of their base oils in point or lii,e cwrloct. 111 mze cllse, sa?tiples were taken born a grease-lubriccrtc(l p111.i~~c-Occiring test c$/.er 5%and 25-million revolutions. The effcc/I'~~c ~i.scosity of (1 pease t~itder the very high shear rates of the order i f 1/2 X lo-" S-I e i z c o z ~...

Current methodologies used for the inference of thin film stress through system curvature measurements are strictly restricted to stress and curvature states which are assumed to remain uniform over the entire film/substrate system. Recently Huang, Rosakis, and coworkers [Acta Mech. Sinica, 21, pp. 362–370 (2005); J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 53, 2483– 2500 (2005); Thin Solid Films, 515, pp. 2220–222...

An experimental study of a 2 mm diameter indium based mercury film rotating disk electrode (IrMFE) is presented. Using anodic stripping voltammetry and test ions of cadmium, lead and zinc, the effects of Hg film thickness on peak potential, half-width and peak height are compared with the predictions given by the De Vries and Van Dalen theory. The response of the Ir-MFE was found to be theoreti...