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Solvent-related effects in MAPLE mechanism

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To study the role of the solvent and of the laser fluence in the matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation (MAPLE) process, we used a soft polymer (polydimethylsiloxane—PDMS) as “sensing surface” and toluene as solvent. Thin films of the PDMS polymer were placed in the position of the growing film, while a frozen toluene target was irradiated with an ArF laser at the conventional fluences used in MAPLE depositions (60–250 mJ/cm2). Apart the absence of solute, the MAPLE typical experimental conditions for the deposition of thin organic layers were tested. The effects on the PDMS films of the toluene target ablation, at different fluences, were studied using atomic force microscopy and contact angles measurements. The results were compared with the effects produced on similar PDMS films by four different treatments (exposure to a drop of the solvent, to saturated toluene vapors and to plasma sources of two different powers). From this comparative study, it appears that depending on the MAPLE experimental conditions: (1) the MAPLE process may be “semidry” rather than purely dry (namely the solvent is likely to be present in the deposition environment near the growing film), (2) the solvent, if sufficiently volatile, is in form of vapor molecules (neutral, ionized and probably dissociated) rather than in liquid phase near the substrate and (3) at relatively high laser fluences (>150 mJ/cm2), the formation of an intense plasma plume results which can damage/affect a soft substrate as well as a growing polymer film.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Physics “E. De Giorgi”, University of Salento, Via Arnesano, 73100, Lecce, Italy

    A. P. Caricato, M. Cesaria, M. Martino, T. Tunno, R. Rinaldi & A. Zacheo

  2. National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL), Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Via Arnesano n. 16, 73100, Lecce, Italy

    V. Arima, R. Rinaldi & A. Zacheo

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Caricato, A.P., Arima, V., Cesaria, M. et al. Solvent-related effects in MAPLE mechanism. Appl. Phys. B 113, 463–471 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-013-5491-5

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