Abstract
Highly ordered ZnO crystals of 0.15 μm width and 0.5 μm length were grown on silicon wafers coated with a monolayer of SiCl3(CH 2)11-O-C6H5 molecules. Various techniques (contact angle measurements, ellipsometry, ATR-FTIR) were employed for determining the quality of the monolayer coating. In addition, the bare and silane-coated Si wafers were studied by X-ray reflectivity (XR) and grazing-incidence diffraction (GID) using synchrotron radiation. The results obtained point to a possible relationship between the organization of the self-assembled monolayer (SAM) coating, the dipole moment of the headgroup, and the orientation of the ZnO crystals.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 169-175 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Crystal Growth and Design |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2004 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank the Antarctic Support Associates staff at the South Pole for making a successful season possible, and Ted Griffith, Bob Pernic, and Bill Vinje for valuable assistance there. This research was supported by the James S. McDonnell Foundation, PYI grant NSF AST 90-57089, and the National Science Foundation under a cooperative agreement with the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (CARA), grant NSF OPP 89-20223. CARA is an NSF Science and Technology Center. J. R. was supported by the McCormick Fellowship at the University of Chicago.
Funding
We thank the Antarctic Support Associates staff at the South Pole for making a successful season possible, and Ted Griffith, Bob Pernic, and Bill Vinje for valuable assistance there. This research was supported by the James S. McDonnell Foundation, PYI grant NSF AST 90-57089, and the National Science Foundation under a cooperative agreement with the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (CARA), grant NSF OPP 89-20223. CARA is an NSF Science and Technology Center. J. R. was supported by the McCormick Fellowship at the University of Chicago.
Funders | Funder number |
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National Science Foundation | AST 90-57089, OPP 89-20223 |
James S. McDonnell Foundation | |
University of Chicago |