Soft X-ray fluorescence measurements of polyimide films

Fluorescent X-ray emission spectroscopy has been used for the first time to study the electronic structure of polyimide films (PMDA-ODA) prepared on S i-substrates by spin-coating and ionized cluster beam deposition (ICBD) met hods, The observed C K-alpha and O K-alpha X-ray emission spectra that prob e the C 2p and O 2p partial density of states in the valence band, respecti vely, were compared with X-ray photoelectron valence band spectra. Theoreti cal simulations of X-ray energies and intensities for polyimide were perfor med with molecular orbital (MO) calculations of the model monomer, containi ng 41 atoms, utilizing a semi-empirical Hydrogenic Atoms in Molecules, V. 3 (HAM/3) method. Calculated Al K-alpha photoelectron spectra were obtained using Gaussian lineshape functions of an approximate linewidth (0.10 I-k fo r the model molecule): I-k = I-k' - WD, as indicated for analysis of valenc e X-ray photoelectron spectra for 63 polymers from some of our previous wor k. Theoretical C K-alpha and O K-alpha X-ray emission and valence X-ray pho toelectron spectra show good agreement with the experimental results: and w ere used to identify certain spectral features, O 1999 Elsevier Science S.A . All rights reserved.