Langmuir-Blodgett film

noun

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.

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Meanings

nounLangmuir-Blodgett film (plural Langmuir-Blodgett films)

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.

    The photoluminescence of the CdS nanoclusters formed in the matrix of a Langmuir-Blodgett film is studied in the temperature range 5–300 K.

    2006, Semiconductors, volume 40, page 1188

Origin

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

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