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Pure Appl. Chem. Vol. 74, No. 3, pp. 407-411 (2002)

Pure and Applied Chemistry

Vol. 74, Issue 3


Diagnostics and insights on PECVD for gas-barrier coatings*

Mariadriana Creatore, Fabio Palumbo, and Riccardo d'Agostino

Università degli Studi, Dipartimento di Chimica, CNR, Centro di Studi per la Chimica dei Plasmi (now Istituto di Metodologie Inorganische e Plasmi), via Orabona 4, 70124 Bari, Italy

Abstract: In this work, we report on our last results concerning the polyethyleneterephtalate barrier performance optimization as a function of the chemistry of the SiOx coating, deposited by means of hexamethyldisiloxane/oxygen-fed plasmas ignited in an RF capacitively coupled parallel plates reactor. The influence of the gas feed composition and power on the plasma phase/coating chemistry and on the O2 gas transmission rate has been investigated. The plasma phase has been studied by means of Fourier transform infrared absorption (FT-IR) and optical emission spectroscopies (OES), and the results have been coupled to the film chemistry investigated by means of FT-IR spectroscopy. These techniques show excellent potentialities in the correlation of the plasma phase and film chemistries with the barrier properties of the SiOx-coated polymer, especially when a very good barrier level is required.

* Lecture presented at the 15th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, Orléans, France, 9-13 July 2001. Other presentations are presented in this issue, pp. 317–492.
** Corresponding author.


 

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