the deposition of a SiO2 layer on poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA) have been investigated
by using atomic force microscopy (AFM) in contact mode and sum-frequency generation
(SFG) vibrational spectroscopy. AFM images show that the surface of PMMA is quite flat and
sporadically contains dendritic features, which are micro-crystalline structures of PMMA.
From the SFG measurements, the ester methyl groups of PMMA are pointed away from the …