Dewetting temperatures of prefrozen and grafted layers in solid ultrathin films viewed as melt-memory effects
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Author(s)
Tournier, Robert F
Ojovan, Michael I
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Undercooled phase exists behind glass phase with superheated medium-range order between Tg and Tn+ > Tm. The ordered volume fraction stays equal to the percolation threshold F ≅ 0.15 of broken bonds up to Tn+. The difference ΔTg between Tg(bulk) of films with thickness (h > h0) and Tg(h) of ultrathin films of thickness (h < h0) is a linear function of (h-ho). Dense layer with minimum thickness hr is grafted against substrate by isothermal annealing, rinsed to reduce film thickness below hr/F, and finally dewetted at Tg. Similar thickness prepared and annealed near Tm and heated above Tm contains residual crystallized layer dewetting at Tn+. The prefrozen layer reproduces the glassy grafted layer in a crystallized state up to Tn+. Melting heat and melting temperature Tm are linear functions of h for h < h0. Prefrozen layers are due to melt-memories leading to new scenarios of crystallization.
Date Issued
2021-06
Date Acceptance
2020-12-23
Citation
Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2021, 611, pp.1-10
ISSN
0921-4526
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
1
End Page
10
Journal / Book Title
Physica B: Condensed Matter
Volume
611
Copyright Statement
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921452620307675?via%3Dihub
Subjects
General Physics
0204 Condensed Matter Physics
0206 Quantum Physics
0303 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
412796
Date Publish Online
2021-03-13