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Water contact angles of vertically aligned Si nanorod arrays

J-G Fan, X-J Tang and Y-P Zhao

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The equilibrium water contact angles of vertically aligned nanorod Si films were measured by the sessile drop method. For as-deposited hydrophilic films, there was a contact angle transition from a rough surface to a 'hemi-wicking' porous surface at normal film thickness d = 500 nm; while for the HF treated hydrophobic films, a transition from a partially composite to a composite surface was observed at the same film thickness. The observed results can be reasonably interpreted within the framework of the classical Young theory.


PACS

68.55.-a Thin film structure and morphology

68.35.B- Structure of clean surfaces (and surface reconstruction)

81.07.-b Nanoscale materials and structures: fabrication and characterization

68.08.Bc Wetting

Subjects

Soft matter, liquids and polymers

Surfaces, interfaces and thin films

Nanoscale science and low-D systems

Dates

Issue 5 (May 2004)

Received 22 August 2003, in final form 5 January 2004

Published 9 February 2004



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