Thin film patterning by surface-plasmon-induced thermocapillarity
- 22 January 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 90 (4), 044105
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2432282
Abstract
It is reported that standing surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves can cause regular thickness undulations of thin polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) films above a metallic substrate. Ripples, rings, and hillock arrays with long-range order were found. Numerical calculations reveal that periodic in-plane temperature profiles are generated in the PMMA due to the nonradiative damping of SPP interference patterns. Computer simulations on the temperature-gradient-driven mass transport confirm that thermocapillarity is the dominating mechanism of the observed surface patterning.Keywords
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