Thin Organic Films and Their Analysis

Catalog description

This courses introduces the students to the concepts of supported thin organic films and their analysis: Langmuir-Blodgett Films; Self-Assembled Monolayers; Polymer Films; Homopolymers; Block Co-polymers; Polyelectrolytes (Layer by Layer); Optical Techniques (El-lispometry, Second Harmonic Generation); Electroanalytical Techniques (Surface Potential); Physocochemical Techniques (Wetting); Spectro-scopic Techniques (Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR), Raman Spectrosco-py, X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (SIMS)); Scanning Probe Microscopy (Atomic Force, Scanning Tunneling); Scattering Techniques (Neutron Scattering, X-Ray Scattering, X-Ray Diffraction, Light Scattering).