What makes conducting polyaniline thin deposited on microscopic glass substrate to be hygroscopic?

I deposited thin film of conducting polyaniline film (ES) on a microscopic glass slide, but it absorbs moisture ones it is brought out of the oven. I tried to deposit it again after depositing Cu...

05 June 2018 5,102 6 View

How to prevent dedoping of doped polyaniline thin film?

Doped polyaniline film can be dedoped upon exposure to gases like ammonia. Please how can I prevent this dedoping from oxidizing or reducing gases @ Prof Bernhard Wessling and others please?

03 April 2018 1,287 6 View

1 nm thick MgO thin-film to be deposited on Si wafer using thermal evaporation. What will be the optimum deposition conditions?

Favourable conditions of base pressure, rate of deposition. Also, by which characterisation technique to be used to verify the thickness of the deposited film.

28 February 2021 3,640 3 View

How to prepare a thin polymer film by post-polymerization/crosslinking?

24 February 2021 2,362 5 View

Is is possible to pole with corona poling pellets of the sample material instead of thin films?

As it is highly probable that pellets will have a higher degree of air gaps and voids than thin films, is it possible to pole the samples with corona poling nevertheless? Or is there the...

24 February 2021 1,349 1 View

How to troubleshoot Electrochromic Films and Electrochromic Devices?

I am trying to characterize an electrochromic system. The system uses ITO electrodes on glass, WO3 as the electrochromic film, and NiO as the ion storage layer. When I deposit NiO and WO3 and...

23 February 2021 9,592 2 View

How to improve the adhesion between germanium and silicon monoxide thin film layers using EBEAM evaporation?

I want to deposit multilayer coating of germanium and silicon monoxide on silicon wafer using ebeam evaporation?

21 February 2021 2,141 3 View

How can I measure the thickness of thin layers deposited on textured glass susbtrates?

I want to measure the thickness of aluminum oxide and titanium oxide layers deposited on textured glass substates. The layer thicknesses are typically below 100nm.

21 February 2021 5,465 4 View

How do I calculate absorption coefficient of my thin film if I dont know the thickness? Or how can I calculate the thickness of my sample?

I have done Uv-vis characterisation of my thin film and have received absorbance and transmittance data. Now I want to calculate the absorption coefficient but I dont know the thickness of my...

21 February 2021 7,148 8 View

How to construct different filler shape in MD simulations?

Is there any way to construct different initial filler shapes like triangle, square, rectangle, pillar, and tube in any simulation software.

20 February 2021 1,750 1 View

Can fractal dimension of thin film surfaces affects the electrons energy states?

As fractal dimension of a thin film surface implies the irregularity in the surface. Is it possible that the energy states of the electrons are also affected by the fractal dimension?

19 February 2021 5,509 3 View

How can I measure the surface interaction or surface interfacial chemistry between polishing abrasives and upper surface of substrate ?

I am working on polishing abrasives. I need to do few characterizations ? which can provide the on time surface chemistry of substrate with polishing abrasive during optical polishing. I would...

18 February 2021 5,319 3 View