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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (Stm) and Scanning Force Microscopy (Sfm) of Liquid Crystals and Polymers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

K. D. Jandt ,
T. J. Mcmaster ,
D. G. Mcdonnell ,
J. M. Blackmore  and
M. J. Miles
K. D. Jandt*
Affiliation:
H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Royal Fort, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 ITL, U. K
T. J. Mcmaster
Affiliation:
H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Royal Fort, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 ITL, U. K
D. G. Mcdonnell
Affiliation:
Defence Research Agency, St. Andrews Road, Great Malvern, Worcs WR14 3PS, U.K
J. M. Blackmore
Affiliation:
Defence Research Agency, St. Andrews Road, Great Malvern, Worcs WR14 3PS, U.K
M. J. Miles
Affiliation:
H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Royal Fort, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 ITL, U. K
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Abstract

Recent progress in the field of liquid crystal materials and oriented polymers studied by nearfield scanned probe microscopies (SPM) is presented here. The investigations were focused on scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) results of antiferroelectric liquid crystalline molecules observed at different elevated temperatures corresponding to different bulk mesophases of the material, and on surface morphological studies of a liquid crystalline polymer by scanning force microscopy (SFM). In the field of oriented thermoplastic polymers, SFM images of the morphology and molecular packing in the outermost surface of poly(butene-1) films are presented.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 332: Symposium U – Determining Nanoscale Physical Properties of Materials by Microscopy and Spectroscopy , 1994 , 423
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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