Characterization of polymer thin films deposited on aluminum films by the combined optical method and atomic force microscopy

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Authors

FRANTA Daniel OHLÍDAL Ivan KLAPETEK Petr NEPUSTILOVÁ Růžena BAJER Svatopluk

Year of publication 2006
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Surface and Interface Analysis
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Faculty of Science

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Field Solid matter physics and magnetism
Keywords ellipsometry; reflectometry; polymer films; AFM
Description In this paper, the results of the optical characterization of polymer thin films, deposited by the plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition on the aluminum films performed by the multisample modification of the optical method based on combination of variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry and near-normal spectroscopic reflectometry, are presented. Within this characterization, the existence of roughness of the boundaries of the polymer films is taken into account by means of the Rayleigh-Rice theory. The optical constants of these films are described by the dispersion model based on parameterization of the density of electronic states. It is shown that the optical constants of the polymer films depend on their thicknesses, i.e. on the deposition times. Morphology of the upper boundaries of the polymer films is also studied using atomic force microscopy.
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