Fig. 3: Physical and spectroscopic characterization of films from TBN and PTBN in device-relevant configurations.
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A Top: Schematic (left), pictures (middle), and AFM images (right) of unactuated TBN-based tri-layer architectures. Bottom: Representative UV–Vis–NIR absorptance (dark blue solid line), transmittance (dark blue dotted line), and reflectance (dark blue dashed-dotted line) spectra for unactuated tri-layer TBN-based architectures. B Top: Schematic (left), pictures (middle), and AFM images (right) of actuated TBN-based tri-layer architectures. Bottom: Representative UV–Vis–NIR absorptance (light blue solid line), transmittance (light blue dotted line), and reflectance (light blue dashed-dotted line) spectra for actuated TBN-based tri-layer architectures. C Top: Schematic (left), pictures (middle), and AFM images (right) of unactuated PTBN-based tri-layer architectures. Bottom: Representative UV–Vis–NIR absorptance (dark brown solid line), transmittance (dark brown dotted line), and reflectance (dark brown dashed-dotted line) spectra for unactuated PTBN-based tri-layer architectures. D Top: Schematic (left), pictures (middle), and AFM images (right) of actuated PTBN-based tri-layer architectures. Bottom: Representative UV–Vis–NIR absorptance (light brown solid line), transmittance (light brown dotted line) and reflectance (light brown dashed-dotted line) spectra for actuated PTBN-based tri-layer architectures.