Spinodal Theory: A Common Rupturing Mechanism in Spinodal Dewetting and Surface Directed Phase Separation (Some Technological Aspects: Spatial Correlations and the Significance of Dipole-Quadrupole Interaction in Spinodal Dewetting)

Figure 1

Shows micrograph of final polygon pattern after decay of rims into droplets. The initial sample was a 45 nm thick PS film on wafer A. The length of the bar is 70 μm. Sharma and Reiter [26].