Spinodal dewetting of thin films with large interfacial slip: implications from the dispersion relation

Details Spinodal dewetting of thin films with large interfacial slip: implications from the dispersion relation Spinodal dewetting of thin films with large interfacial slip: implications from the dispersion relation

2008-07-16

arxiv.org/abs/0807.2564v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

12 pages, 3 figure, submitted

Scientific paper

We compare the dispersion relations for spinodally dewetting thin liquid films for increasing magnitude of interfacial slip length in the lubrication limit. While the shape of the dispersion relation, in particular the position of the maximum, are equal for no-slip up to moderate slip lengths, the position of the maximum shifts to much larger wavelengths for large slip lengths. Here, we discuss the implications of this fact for recently developed methods to assess the disjoining pressure in spinodally unstable thin films by measuring the shape of the roughness power spectrum. For PS films on OTS covered Si wafers (with slip length b approx. 1 mum) we predict a 20% shift of the position of the maximum of the power spectrum which should be detectable in experiments.

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