Abstract
Recovery or replenishment of lubricant holes caused by sliding is important for thin-film lubrication. However, due to the difficulty of measurement, the recovery process of molecularly thin lubricant films has not been fully clarified yet. In this report, we tried to observe the recovery process of monolayer thick films by using two-stage imaging ellipsometric microscope. Using the developed microscope, the recovery process of the monolayer films with different bonding ratio was investigated.
