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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten
DS 8: Thin Film Characterisation: Structure Analysis and Composition I
DS 8.3: Talk
Monday, March 7, 2016, 15:45–16:00, H8
Real-Time Investigation at Metal-Polymer-Interfaces during Sputter Deposition. — •Matthias Schwartzkopf1, Oleksandr Polonskyi2, Alexander Hinz2, Thomas Strunskus2, Franziska Löhrer3, Volker Körstgens3, Peter Müller-Buschbaum3, Franz Faupel2, and Stephan V. Roth1 — 1DESY, Photon Science, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg — 2CAU zu Kiel, Institut für Materialwissenschaft, LS Materialverbunde, Kaiserstr.2, 24143 Kiel — 3TU München, Physik-Department, LS Funktionelle Materialien, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching
The reproducible low-cost fabrication of functional metal-polymer-nanocomposites remains a major issue in applied nanotechnology. In order to obtain full control over the nanostructural evolution at the metal-polymer interface, we employed the combination of in-situ time-resolved GISAXS [1] and GIWAXS with in-situ ellipsometry during sputter deposition of gold on thin polystyrene films. We correlate the evolution of the metallic layer morphology with changes in the key scattering features. This enabled us to identify the impact of different deposition rates on the growth regimes with their specific thresholds and permits a better understanding of the growth kinetics of gold clusters on polymer substrates. Our study opens up the opportunity to improve nanofabrication of tailored metal-polymer nanostructures for organic electronics like photovoltaic applications and plasmonic-based technologies. [1] Schwartzkopf et al., ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 7, 13547 (2015).