S. Kale et al., DEPOSITION OF POLYMER BILAYER CONFIGURATION BY PULSED-LASER ABLATION AND ITS USE FOR STUDY OF POLYMER-POLYMER INTERFACE, Bulletin of Materials Science, 16(5), 1993, pp. 341-346
Thin films of polyphenylene sulphide (PPS) and polyethylene (PE) polym
ers have been deposited in a bilayer configuration using pulsed excime
r laser ablation. Such bilayer specimens have been annealed at differe
nt temperatures, up to a maximum of 120-degrees-C, and for different t
ime intervals, up to a maximum of 110 rain, to investigate the evoluti
on of the interface. By employing the technique of spectroscopic ellip
sometry, the nature and the degree of thermally induced polymeric tran
sport across the interface are brought out.