Langmuir-Blodgett film

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English

Etymology

Named after Irving Langmuir and Katharine B. Blodgett, who invented the technique at General Electric Co.

Noun

Langmuir-Blodgett film (plural Langmuir-Blodgett films)

  1. A nanostructured system formed when monolayers are transferred from a liquid-gas interface to solid supports during the vertical passage of the support through the monolayers.
    • 2006, Semiconductors, volume 40, page 1188:
      The photoluminescence of the CdS nanoclusters formed in the matrix of a Langmuir-Blodgett film is studied in the temperature range 5–300 K.