Diblock copolymer ordering induced by patterned surfaces

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2001 EDP Sciences
, , Citation Y. Tsori and D. Andelman 2001 EPL 53 722 DOI 10.1209/epl/i2001-00211-3

0295-5075/53/6/722

Abstract

We use a Ginzburg-Landau free-energy functional to investigate diblock copolymer morphologies when the copolymer melt interacts with one surface or is confined between two chemically patterned surfaces. For temperatures above the order-disorder transition a complete linear response description of the copolymer melt is given, in terms of an arbitrary two-dimensional surface pattern. The appearance of order in the direction parallel to the surface is found as a result of the order in the perpendicular direction. Below the order-disorder transition and in a thin-film geometry, our procedure enables an analytic calculation of distorted perpendicular and tilted lamellar phases in the presence of uniform or striped surface fields.

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10.1209/epl/i2001-00211-3