Laboratory Spectroscopic Techniques
Laser Ablation
Viale Ferdinando Stagno d'Alcontres, n. 37, 98158 Messina, Italy.
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The poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) polymers is still at
the centre of a wide research interest in both bulk and
thin films due to the lure of discovering their fundamental
properties and due to their potential applications in the electronic
technology such as data display, storage and chemical
sensing. PMMA thin films have been deposited by different
techniques such as vacuum evaporation, plasma and
electrochemical polymerization, and spin coating. Recently,
the pulsed laser ablation (PLA) technique was successfully
adopted to grow hardly processible polymer materials with
controlled composition and size. In fact, compared to
the solvent-based techniques in which the wetting effects are
difficult to control and require careful surface cleaning procedures,
a dry technique such as PLAcan be largely competitive
owing to the high energy of the depositing species.