Interfacial slip on a transverse-shear mode acoustic wave device

This article describes a mathematical relationship between the slip parameter alpha and the slip length b for a slip boundary condition applied to the transverse-shear model for a quartz-crystal acoustic wave device. The theory presented here reduces empirical determination of slip to a one-parameter fit. It shows that the magnitude and phase of the slip parameter, which describes the relative motion of the surface and liquid in the transverse-shear model, can be linked to the slip length. Furthermore, the magnitude and phase of the slip parameter are shown to depend on one another. An experiment is described to compare the effects of liquid-surface affinity on the resonant properties of a transverse-shear mode wave device by applying different polar and nonpolar liquids to surfaces of different polarity. The theory is validated with slip values determined from the transverse-shear model and compared to slip length values from literature. Agreement with literature values of slip length is within one order of magnitude. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.