Patterned fine particle film structures
AssigneeEmpire Technology Development LLC
InventorKazufumi Ogawa
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Abstract
A patterned fine particle film structure includes a fine particle layer including fine particles arranged and bound to a surface of a substrate coated with a patterned film including a first film compound having a first functional group. The fine particles are coated with films including a first coupling agent having a first coupling reactive group that undergoes a coupling reaction with the first functional group to form a bond. The fine particle layer is bound by a bond formed through a coupling reaction. In an embodiment, fine particles coated with films of a film compound that reacts with the first coupling reactive group and the fine particles are alternately bound to the substrate.
Claims10
A film structure, comprising:
- a substrate;
- a first alkoxysilane linker linked to the substrate through a first active hydrogen group of the substrate, the first alkoxysilane linker having a first epoxide reactant product;
- a fine particle;
- a second alkoxysilane linker linked to the particle through a second active hydrogen group of the particle, the second alkoxysilane linker having a second epoxide reactant product;
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- a coupling agent including an imidazole group linking the first alkoxysilane linker and the second alkoxysilane linker so as to link the particle to the substrate through the two alkoxysilane linkers and the coupling agent including the imidazole group disposed therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.