Effects of Film Instability on Roughness Correlation and Nanodomain Ordering in Ultrathin Films of Asymmetric Block Copolymers

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Title:	Effects of Film Instability on Roughness Correlation and Nanodomain Ordering in Ultrathin Films of Asymmetric Block Copolymers
Authors:	Sun,YS;Chien,SW;Wu,PJ
Contributors:	化學工程與材料工程學系
Keywords:	THIN POLYMER-FILMS;X-RAY-SCATTERING;DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS;PATTERN-FORMATION;LIQUID-FILMS;TRANSITION-TEMPERATURE;DISORDER TRANSITION;INDUCED ORIENTATION;ARRAYS;NANOSTRUCTURES
Date:	2010
Issue Date:	2012-03-27 16:24:43 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	國立中央大學
Abstract:	We investigated the dewetting, surface roughness, and ordering of cylindrical nanodomains in polystyrene-block-poly(methyl methacrylate), P(S-h-MM A), ultrathin films of approximately monolayer thickness on bare silicon substrates (SiO(x)/Si) and substrates coated with end-grafting PM MA (PMMA-SiO(x)/ Si) and PS (PS-SiO(x)/Si) homopolymers. For films with asymmetric wetting boundaries on SiO(x)/Si and PMMA-SiO(x)/Si, annealing caused relief structures (holes and islands) locating on top of an underlying P(S-b-M MA) wetting monolayer. The interfaces of the destabilized thin films on polar substrates have a smooth free surface. In addition, a surface undulation in film thickness to achieve the commensurability of film thickness with the nanodomain spacing facilitates the ordering of internal nanostructures. In contrast, for symmetric wetting boundaries on PS-SiO(x)/Si, thin films that resisted dewetting on a PS brush have a rough free surface. In the absence of undulations in thickness, a perturbation, as result of chain stretching, in the interdomain spacing yielded small in-plane randomly oriented monograins on PS-SiO(x)/Si. Consequently, the free surface roughening was allowable to occur due to preferential segregation of excluded polymer chains from monograin boundaries onto the free surface. Finally, we demonstrate that the roughnesses between the interfaces of the wetting monolayer are correlated.
Relation:	MACROMOLECULES
Appears in Collections:	[Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering] journal & Dissertation

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