Chemical degradation and morphological instabilities during focused ion beam prototyping of polymersElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI: 10.1039/c3cp54037e

• Main Authors: Orthacker, A, Schmied, R, Chernev, B, Fröch, J. E, Winkler, R, Hobisch, J, Trimmel, G, Plank, H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 18.12.2013

Focused ion beam processing of low melting materials, such as polymers or biological samples, often leads to chemical and morphological instabilities which prevent the straight-forward application of this versatile direct-write structuring method. In this study the behaviour of different polymer cla...