Eur. Phys. J. AP 1, 147-151 (1998)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:1998128

Effect of electric field on gold particles growth on ceramic substrate: granulometric and adhesion^*

¹ Laboratoire de Microscopie Électronique, Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisie
² Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Tunisie

Received: 4 February 1997
Accepted: 14 November 1997
Published online: 15 February 1998

Abstract

To understand the adhesion phenomena, we have studied the electric field effect on the gold thin films (< 100 Å) growth on ceramic substrate. Three parameters are studied in the too cases, with and without field: particles density, average size and substrate temperature. An electric field is applicated normaly to the surface and the adhesion is interpreted in terms of adhesion energy.