Relationships between grain structure and stress in thin Volmer-Weber metallic films

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2009. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-154). === In Volmer-Weber growth, islands that nucleate on the substrate surface impinge and coalesce into grains of a continuous film. During...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leib, Jeffrey Scott
Other Authors: Carl V. Thompson.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2009
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46682