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Praseodymium oxide (Pr2O3) as a hetero-oxide on SiC(0001) represents a promising semiconductor / high-K dielectric material combination. We prepared thin films (<3 nm) of Pr2O3 on 4H-SiC(0001) surfaces by a wet chemical process involving aqueous solutions of Pr(NO3)3. Synchrotron radiation photoelectron spectroscopy (SR-PES) is used to study the chemical composition of these films after deposition and annealing in 300-900 %B0C range. The Si2p and C1s core level emissions are analysed in detail and reveal that praseodymium-silicate is formed at the interface. Our data are compared to corresponding studies of the Pr2O3 interaction with Si(001) surfaces.
Polycrystalline CuInS2 samples are an ideal system for photoemission electron microscope studies. The polycrystalline grains have a diameter of approximately 5 small mu, Greekm and the system is expected to be highly inhomogeneous because of the existence of many sub-phases. We used a recently established procedure to reproducibly obtain stoichiometric CuInS2-surfaces and follow the changes in the morphology, the elemental inhomogeneous distribution, and the development of the electronic structure upon its preparation. We find that the individual grains trend to coagulate, the surface composition becomes more homogeneous, and identify characteristic features of the unoccupied DOS.
Aluminium is a material of everyday use in many applications,like automobile,aero-space or cookware,due to its specialproperties (low density,low weight,strength,easy to form and cast,abundance etc).Although aluminium is a reactive metal,italso has a significant corrosion resistance because of a thin,protective oxide layer which is generally stable in air and aqueous solutions.However,pores within the oxide film and other defects caused from alloying elements can lead to local corrosion and the formation of pits.
The fine structure of thin films of poly(styrene-block-4-vinylpyridine) copolymer-2-(4'-hydroxybenzeneazo)benzoic acid (PS-PVP+HABA) assembly has been studied using the combination of atomic force microscopy, ellipsometry, X-ray reflectivity, GISAXS, XPS, and XPEEM. The films consist of cylindrical nanodomains formed by PVP+HABA associates surrounded by PS matrix. Alignment of the domains can be switched upon exposure to vapors of different solvents from the parallel to perpendicular orientation and vice versa with respect to the surface plane. Swelling in 1,4-dioxane leads the system from the cylindrical to the spherical morphology. Solvent evaporation results in a shrinkage of the matrix in the vertical direction and subsequent merging of the spheres into the perpendicularly aligned cylinders. The cylinders form a regular hexagonal lattice with a spatial period of 25.5 nm. On the other hand, vapors of chloroform induce in-plane alignment. The films consist of parallel layers of the cylinders separated by PS matrix and demonstrate the fingerprint-like structure. The nanocylinders of PVP+HABA are packed into a distorted hexagonal lattice exhibiting 31 nm in plane and 17 nm vertical periodicity. In both cases a thin wetting layer is found at the polymer-substrate interface. The free surface is enriched with PS.
n order to optimize organic field effect transistors (OFETs), the characterisation of active-layer surfaces in terms of their roughness, chemical composition and distribution of surface potentials is important. We report on high-resolution microscopic mapping of organic source-drain structures with P3HT as the semiconductor by scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM) and photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM). It was shown that PEEM is able to characterise the surface morphology (roughness), the chemical homogeneity and the composition of organic structures. The two-dimensional mapping of surface potentials by SKPM with applied source-drain voltages is shown to be an important ingredient of OFETs failure mode analysis.
Photoelectron spectroscopy and microscopy on Cr nano particels embedded into block copolymers
(2005)
The composition of CuInS2-films tends to differ from the ideal ratio of 1:1:2. A molecularlyvariation of dm=[Cu]/[In]-1 not equal 0 occurs due to the formation of binary phases as segregation's at the surface, as crystallites in the bulk of the film or at the surface of grains [1]. Furthermore, the range of homogeneity of the phase CuInS2 is relatively large caused by a low enthalpy of formation of defects like Cu-vacancies [2]. Segregation's at surfaces can be removed by KCN etching or by an electrochemical process [3, 4] We investigated the effect of an in-situ-heat-treatment of samples, prepared in the Cu-rich regime with additional amounts of copper, deposited on the surface of the Cu-In-S-films.We used Cu-In-S-films on molybdenum, prepared from precursors of Cu/In and a following reactive annealing-process in a sulphur-atmosphere. The experiments were performed as follows: The surface of the films was cleaned in situ to remove CuS-Phases by Argon-bombardment. The thin layers of additional Copper were prepared by evaporation of copper metal in Knudsen-cells. The thickness of this copper-films is in the range of monolayers, revealed by a calibration with copper on iron-substrates. After this deposition the samples were heated up to several temperatures (up to 550 ºC) for ten minutes, respectively. Here the molybdenum back-contact was used as electrical heater.