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Three examples of contamination induced delamination of vacuum-deposited films are cited to stress the necessity for identifying substrate surface contaminants, and then removing them from the surfaces prior to film deposition with an effective cleaning procedure, or preventing them from contacting the substrate surface, or eliminating their source during the polymer manufacture. The major contaminate...