The use of the Langmuir-Blodgett technique to obtain ultra-thin polar films

The piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties of oriented films possessing dipole moments are increasingly being used in pressure, acoustic, thermal and optical devices. The performance of these devices in many applications may be enhanced by thin-film technology.The developing Langmuir-Blodgett thi...

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Main Authors: Biddle, M. B., Rickert, S. E., Lando, J. B., Laschewsky, André
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Universität Potsdam 1989
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Online Access:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-17185
http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/1718/
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Summary:The piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties of oriented films possessing dipole moments are increasingly being used in pressure, acoustic, thermal and optical devices. The performance of these devices in many applications may be enhanced by thin-film technology.The developing Langmuir-Blodgett thin-film deposition technique offers the opportunity to obtain highly oriented and uniform organic-based films in the 10–5000 nm thickness range. Special techniques must be used, however, to assemble these molecules in such a way as to result in polar multilayer films. Several possible deposition techniques are investigated, with one resulting in a polar and pyroelectric film about 50 nm thick.