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Vacuum Ultraviolet Irradiation of Polymers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

A. C. Fozza ,
A. Bergeron ,
J. E. Klemberg-Sapieha  and
M. R. Wertheimer
A. C. Fozza
Affiliation:
Groupe des Couches Minces and Department of Engineering Physics and Materials Engineering, École Polytechnique, Montréal, Qc H3C 3A7, CANADA
A. Bergeron
Affiliation:
Groupe des Couches Minces and Department of Engineering Physics and Materials Engineering, École Polytechnique, Montréal, Qc H3C 3A7, CANADA
J. E. Klemberg-Sapieha
Affiliation:
Groupe des Couches Minces and Department of Engineering Physics and Materials Engineering, École Polytechnique, Montréal, Qc H3C 3A7, CANADA
M. R. Wertheimer
Affiliation:
Groupe des Couches Minces and Department of Engineering Physics and Materials Engineering, École Polytechnique, Montréal, Qc H3C 3A7, CANADA
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Abstract

The interest in incoherent sources for wavelength selective photochemistry has increased lately, but little is still known about the behavior of polymers when exposed to far UV and vacuum UV (VUV) radiation, for example that emitted from low-pressure plasmas. In order to study VUV-UV effects on several polymers (polyethylene - PE, polystyrene - PS, hexatriacontane - HTC, polymethylmethacrylate - PMMA and polycarbonate - PC), we used the wellcharacterized emissions from hydrogen and hydrogen/argon mixture plasmas as light sources. Mass changes were measured in-situ using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM); irradiated samples were analyzed ex-situ by XPS, spectroscopic ellipsometry, and AFM.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 544: Symposium Y – Plasma Deposition and Treatment of Polymers , 1998 , 109
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

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