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EX SITU STUDY OF THE EPITAXIAL GROWTH OF N-ALKANE THIN FILMS

2017· dissertation· en· W2592789793 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Curtis Senger

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity Library - University of Saskatchewan (University of Saskatchewan) · 2017
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSurface Chemistry and Catalysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersCanadian Light Source
KeywordsIn situEpitaxyMaterials scienceThin filmAlkaneNanotechnologyChemistryLayer (electronics)Organic chemistry
DOInot available

Abstract

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A thorough understanding of the growth mechanism in organic thin film growth is necessary to be able to develop devices based on these materials.In particular, there are open questions about the growth mechanism of multilayered structures beyond the first monolayer.Of particular interest to this work is developing an understanding of the early and intermediate steps of n-alkane film epitaxial growth on highly ordered surfaces.In order to address this question, a technique needs to be used that allows observation of films at intervals during growth, while providing elemental sensitivity, spatial resolution, and orientation information.Photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM) is an electron microscopy technique with high spatial resolution suited to studying thin films in situ.When combined with tunable polarized X-rays from a synchrotron source, PEEM provides a powerful method to study the orientation of molecular films.However, alkane films are sensitive to radiation damage from UV and X-ray light.In addition, an in situ deposition study of n-alkanes cannot be performed without contamination of the vacuum environment.Deposition in PEEM will lead to contamination of other samples when the microscope is subsequently used.Therefore, an ex situ approach is used, where films are grown in high vacuum conditions in an adjacent chamber and analyzed with PEEM immediately after preparation.This method will be used to study the intermediate stages of n-alkane thin film growth.Previous research using linear polarized near edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (NEXAFS) has proven useful in the study of the various oriented morphologies of n-alkanes grown by physical vapour deposition.Early to mid-stage growth has not been studied in depth however, and there may be a shift in growth modes as the epitaxial interaction with the graphite substrate is reduced as more layers are deposited.The ex situ evaporator has been designed, manufactured, and is operating according to expectations.Experiments have been performed to address the compatibility of these alkanes in the PEEM with x-ray illumination, including normalization techniques and radiation damage assessment.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.040
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0040.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.158
Teacher spread0.152 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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