Order in landmur-blodgett films of lead and cadmium stearate : an x-ray diffraction study.

Journal Article · Sun Sep 15 04:00:00 EDT 1996 · Thin Solid Films

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-6090(95)08292-1· OSTI ID:937787

Malik, A; Durbin, M K; Richter, A G; Huang, K G; Dutta, P

We have studied monolayer and multilayer Langmuir-Blodgett films of lead stearate and cadmium stearate using grazing incidence X-ray diffraction. We find that although these two types of films have similar in-plane structures, lead stearate forms better ordered films: the correlation length increases with the number of layers in lead stearate but levels off at the three-layer value in cadmium stearate. The lattices of adjacent lead ion layers are correlated, but adjacent cadmium layers are not.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 937787
• Report Number(s): ANL/MSD/JA-19759
• Journal Information: Thin Solid Films, Journal Name: Thin Solid Films Journal Issue: Sep. 15, 1996 Vol. 285; ISSN THSFAP; ISSN 0040-6090
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: ENGLISH

Related Subjects

74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
CADMIUM
LEAD IONS
STEARATES
X-RAY DIFFRACTION