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Paper OF+TF-ThP8
Growth and Nucleation of 2-methyl-4-nitroaniline (MNA)

Thursday, November 1, 2001, 5:30 pm, Room 134/135

Session: Aspects of Organic Films Poster Session
Presenter: K. Nam, Norfolk State University
Authors: K. Nam, Norfolk State University
K.I. Seo, Norfolk State University
L. Wang, Norfolk State University
C.E. Bonner, Norfolk State University
E.S. Gillman, Jefferson Lab
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Despite the intense interest in the microstructure of MNA over the last decade, a detailed understanding of its structure with respect to growth conditions is still not clear. A relationship between structure and growth of thin films is often sought, however in many instances these relations are vague and complex. One reason is that thin film properties generally vary by orders of magnitudes depending upon preparation conditions. Thin films are, in general, not ideal materials systems in terms of bond distortion, coordination, point defects, dislocations, compositional inhomogeneities and impurities, grain boundaries and disordered low-density void regions. These defects are created by a complex array of parameters that are directly related to the surface interface. Thus, it is expected that any quantitative description of preparation-property relations must first start with a quantitative description of its internal and external morphology. Here we present results for MNA thin films that are grown using an organic molecular beam deposition (OMBD) technique.