CEM 419
Surface and Interface Analysis
Fall 1999

Laboratory Experiments
We are grateful to the National Science Foundation for their support in the development and implementation of this
course through grant NSF DUE-9850822. 
Please note:  This course was taught for the first time in the Fall 1999 term.  These are the first versions of these experiments.  Updated versions will be available soon.

Ellipsometry
Introduction to Ellipsometry

Optical Ellipsometry of Alkanethiol Monolayers on Gold

Contact Angle Measurements
Contact Angles and Surface Energies

Contact Angles as a Function of Immersion Time and Advancing and Receding Angles

Mass Sensing
Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Monolayer Formation
Electrochemistry
Investigation of the Capacitance of SAMs and Bare Gold

Investigation of the Permeability of Alkanethiol Monolayers

Cyclic Voltammery with Immobilized Films

Reflectance FTIR
FTIR Spectroscopy of an Alkanethiol Monolayer




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