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Chemistry of Adhesion at the Polyimide-Metal Interface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

M. Grunze ,
W. N. Unertl ,
S. Gnanarajan  and
J. French
M. Grunze
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology and Department of Physics, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469.
W. N. Unertl
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology and Department of Physics, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469.
S. Gnanarajan
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology and Department of Physics, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469.
J. French
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology and Department of Physics, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469.
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Abstract

This article describes recent studies of the chemistry of adhesion between thin (d ≥ 11 Å) polyimide films and silver and copper substrates, and the structural changes in the polymer when polyamic acid is imidized to polyimide. The thin polyamic acid films were formed by vapor phase deposition of 1,2,4,5-benzenetetracarboxylic anhydride (PMDA) and 4,4-oxydianiline (ODA) under high vacuum conditions and subsequent imidization by heating in vacuum. Both ODA and PMDA are at least partially dissociated upon adsorption onto clean copper and silver and with increasing film thicknesses react to form the polyimide precursor, polyamic acid. Heating to T ≥ 425 K leads to polymerization to form polyimide films which are thermally stable to about 700 K. Polyimide films with mean thicknesses as small as 1.1 nm have been fabricated in this way and their bonding to the substrate as determined by x-ray photoemission studies is su marized. Infrared reflection absorption data gives further evidence that the polyimide bonds to the substrate via fragmented PMDA. Changes in the surface topography and molecular structure of the films during imidization are demonstrated by scanning tunneling micrographs and infrared reflection absorption data.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 108 , 1987 , 189
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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Present address: Lehrstuhl fuer Angewandte Physikalische Chemie, Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie, Universitaet Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 253, 6900 Heidelberg, West Germany.

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