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Wrinkles formed on a thin gold film deposited onto stretched elastic substrates
Author(s) -
Watanabe Masashi
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
polymers for advanced technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.61
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1099-1581
pISSN - 1042-7147
DOI - 10.1002/pat.652
Subject(s) - materials science , polydimethylsiloxane , layer (electronics) , substrate (aquarium) , composite material , sputtering , thin film , polymer , nanotechnology , oceanography , geology
In this article the possibility of using various elastic polymer substrates for preparing wrinkled gold films was studied. The gold film was deposited on the substrate using an ion‐sputtering technique, while the substrate was stretched and fixed on a frame. The obtained gold film had wrinkles with a striped pattern. However, whether the pattern was well regulated or not depended on the substrate material. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) was the preferable material when it did not contain fillers. Materials containing fillers are not suitable for this purpose. However, double layer substrates that consist of the PDMS without fillers (the upper layer) and the material containing fillers (the lower layer) could be used to obtain a relatively well‐ordered pattern. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.