In-situ monitoring of the thermal desorption of alkanethiols with surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy (SPRS)

In-situ monitoring of the thermal desorption of alkanethiols with surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy (SPRS)

Thermal desorption investigations on self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) had previously been carried out using techniques such as thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS), scannin...

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Main Authors:	Wong, Chee Cheong, Romanato, Filippo, Lee, Kwang Hong, Ang, X. F., Li, J.
Other Authors:	School of Materials Science & Engineering
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2010
Subjects:	DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Plasma treatment
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92546 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6206
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Institution:	Nanyang Technological University
Language:	English

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Summary:	Thermal desorption investigations on self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) had previously been carried out using techniques such as thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy (XPS). In this paper, the thermal dissociation of alkanethiols (CnH2n+1SH) at various chain lengths (n = 6, 12, 18) on sputtered gold layers was monitored in-situ using the Kretschmann surface plasmon resonance configuration on a spectroscopic ellipsometer. We found that the longest alkanethiol (C18 exhibits the greatest thermal stability, manifested by the least amount of angular shift, during heating, in the resonant spectral features. Predictions of desorption temperatures from SPRS for the longer chain thiols are in good agreement with XPS measurements.