Journal
COATINGS
Volume 13, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/coatings13111853
Keywords
roughness; scalar diffraction theory; angle-resolved scattering
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Angle-resolved scattering was measured for silicon samples with different surface roughness. Three methods were used to evaluate the data, and the multi-wavelength approach was found to be the most important in determining total rms values of the heights.
Angle-resolved scattering was measured for four samples of silicon exhibiting different surface roughnesses. The measurements were performed for three wavelengths: 457.9 nm, 514.5 nm, and 647.1 nm. Three approaches were used to evaluate the experimental data. The first approach corresponds to the exact formula derived using the scalar diffraction theory. This formula is quite complicated, and numerical methods must be used for its evaluation. For this reason, another two approaches representing approximations by much simpler formulae were considered. The use of several wavelengths allowed us not only to recover the power spectral density function in a limited interval of spatial frequencies but also to determine the total rms values of the heights, which represent the quantity of roughness for all spatial frequencies. The possibility of recovering the total rms values of the heights using the multi-wavelength approach is the most important result of this work. The results obtained from the scattering experiment and atomic force microscopy are compared.
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