Templeting of Thin Films Induced by Dewetting on Patterned Surfaces

Details Templeting of Thin Films Induced by Dewetting on Patterned Surfaces Templeting of Thin Films Induced by Dewetting on Patterned Surfaces

2001-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0101393v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

5 pages TeX (REVTeX 4), other comments: submitted to Phys. Rev.Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4536

The instability, dynamics and morphological transitions of patterns in thin liquid films on periodic striped surfaces (consisting of alternating less and more wettable stripes) are investigated based on 3-D nonlinear simulations that account for the inter-site hydrodynamic and surface-energetic interactions. The film breakup is suppressed on some potentially destabilizing nonwettable sites when their spacing is below a characteristic lengthscale of the instability, the upper bound for which is close to the spinodal lengthscale. The thin film pattern replicates the substrate surface energy pattern closely only when, (a) the periodicity of substrate pattern matches closely with the characteristic lengthscale, and (b) the stripe-width is within a range bounded by a lower critical length, below which no heterogeneous rupture occurs, and an upper transition length above which complex morphological features bearing little resemblance to the substrate pattern are formed.

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