The epitaxial growth of ultrathin films of NaCl was achieved on a Cu(100) substrate at room temperature. The growth mode was observed to be of the Stranski-Krastanov type using non-contact AFM, with well-oriented square islands growing on top of the first monolayer of NaCl. The frictional properties of different monolayers were measured using contact mode AFM. The friction contrast between the different monolayers of NaCl was found to be too small to be measured within the noise. Atomic stick-slip measurements were performed on a NaCl island. The results are discussed in comparison with relevent literature on thin films of alkali halides.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.84022 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Delage, Patrick |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002269588, proquestno: AAIMR22714, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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