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Samanvaya Srivastava¹, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Ashutosh Sharma

¹Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

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Electric fields induce interfacial instabilities in thin films, enabling pattern formation. This study reveals how material properties and film interactions control pattern scale and type, offering insights into microfabrication.

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Area of Science:

Physics of soft matter
Materials science
Microfluidics

Background:

Interfacial instabilities in thin films are crucial for pattern formation.
Electric fields can be used to control these instabilities for microfabrication.
Understanding the behavior of interacting thin films under electric fields is essential.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze electric-field-induced interfacial instabilities and pattern formation in interacting thin films.
To investigate the role of material properties, film thickness, and electric field geometry.
To explore the generation of intricate 3-D periodic patterns using patterned electrodes.

Main Methods:

Linear stability analysis (LSA) for viscoelastic films.
Long-wave nonlinear simulations for viscous layers.
Modeling of thin films coated on parallel plate electrodes with an air gap.

Main Results:

Material property ratios and film thickness significantly control instability length and timescales.
A second film layer increases capacitance, potentially reducing the instability length scale.
Instabilities initiate via antiphase squeezing, not in-phase bending.
Nonlinear simulations demonstrate the generation of diverse 3-D periodic patterns (e.g., pincushion, microchannels, microbubbles) via electric field patterning.
The pathway of pattern evolution can change with kinetic parameters without altering equilibrium morphology.
Self-organized patterns may not replicate electrode patterns.

Conclusions:

Electric-field-induced interfacial phenomena offer a novel route for generating complex microscale patterns.
The interplay between material properties, film geometry, and electric fields dictates pattern formation.
This approach holds potential for advanced microfabrication and self-assembly processes.