A. Toth et al., ION-BEAM-INDUCED CHEMICAL EFFECTS IN ORGANOSILICON POLYMERS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 116(1-4), 1996, pp. 299-304
Poly(vinyltrimethylsilane) (PVTMS), poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMSO), po
ly(methylsilsesquioxane) (PMeSSO), and poly(phenylsilsesquioxane) (PPh
SSO) were bombarded by 2.5 keV Ar+ ions and the beam induced chemical
effects were: studied by XPS and XAES, For PVTMS the gradual developme
nt of a new component on the high kinetic energy side of thr. original
Si KL(23)L(23) peak was observed, which was attributed to the formati
on of [SiC4] units present in a densely crosslinked matrix, For the po
ly(organosiloxanes) PDMSO, PMeSSO and PPhSSO a kind of disproportionat
ion of Si was inferred from the evolution of their Si 2p and Si KL(23)
L(23) peaks, involving the transformation of a part of the original [S
iCxOy] units to [SiC4]-type and [SiO4]-type ones surrounded by a dense
ly crosslinked organosilicon matrix.