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Asymmetry in Multilayer Adhesion: the Zinc Oxide / Silver Interface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

E. Barthel
Affiliation:
Unité Mixte CNRS/Saint-Gobain «Surface du Verre et Interface», Saint-Gobain Recherche, F-93303, Aubervilliers, Cedex, France.
P. Nael
Affiliation:
Unité Mixte CNRS/Saint-Gobain «Surface du Verre et Interface», Saint-Gobain Recherche, F-93303, Aubervilliers, Cedex, France.
O. Kerjan
Affiliation:
Unité Mixte CNRS/Saint-Gobain «Surface du Verre et Interface», Saint-Gobain Recherche, F-93303, Aubervilliers, Cedex, France.
N. Nadaud
Affiliation:
Saint-Gobain Recherche, F-93303, Aubervilliers, Cedex, France.
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Abstract

We have developed a wedge-loaded double-cantilever beam adhesion measurement set-up for thin films deposited on glass by magnetron sputtering. Results on the Glass/ZnO/Ag/ZnO multilayer evidence that the upper Ag/ZnO interface is tougher than the lower ZnO/Ag interface. This asymmetry in the adhesion energy between identical materials is not expected from first principles. It results from different non-equilibrium interfacial structures.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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