page_title: Lisa McElwee-White
section_title: Chemical Vapor Deposition
hierarchical_section_title: Lisa McElwee-White / Research / Chemical Vapor Deposition
caption_attribution_description: English: Precursors used in McElwee-White’s research on CVD
context_page_description: Lisa McElwee-White is currently the Colonel Allen R. and Margaret G. Crow Professor of Chemistry at the University of Florida.
context_section_description: Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) is a technique that produces materials by depositing solid films. It has been a very attractive process because it is chemically selective process, the material produced is high-quality and high-performing, and the thickness of the film can be easily controlled.
  McElwee-White has studied the various complexities of CVD on tungsten nitride and carbonitride films (WNₓCy films), exploring tungsten nitrido complexes as precursors and analyzing the effect of ligand structure on the reaction. She has also expanded her research scope to the metallization of organic thin films. For the process of metallization of organic thin films, normal thermal CVD processes which require high temperatures usually destroy organic films. McElwee-White introduced photochemical CVD processes as an alternative, and employed ruthenium-based precursors.
caption: Precursors used in McElwee-White’s research on CVD.
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