Characterization of Amorphous and Crystalline Rough Surface: Principles and Applications

Yiping Zhao, Gwo-Ching Wang and Toh-Ming Lu (Eds.)9780124759848, 012475984X

The structure of a growth or an etch front on a surface is not only a subject of great interest from the practical point of view but also is of fundamental scientific interest. Very often surfaces are created under non-equilibrium conditions such that the morphology is not always smooth. In addition to a detailed description of the characteristics of random rough surfaces, Experimental Methods in the Physical Sciences, Volume 37, Characterization of Amorphous and Crystalline Rough Surface-Principles and Applications will focus on the basic principles of real and diffraction techniques for quantitative characterization of the rough surfaces. The book thus includes the latest development on the characterization and measurements of a wide variety of rough surfaces. The complementary nature of the real space and diffraction techniques is fully displayed.

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Table of contents :
Content:
Volumes in series: Experimental methods in the physical sciences
Pages xi-xiii

Preface
Pages xv-xvii
Yiping Zhao, Gwo-Ching Wang, Toh-Ming Lu

1. Introduction Original Research Article
Pages 1-5

2. Statistical nature of rough surfaces Original Research Article
Pages 7-32

3. Examples of random rough surfaces Original Research Article
Pages 33-61

4. Real-space surface profiling techniques Original Research Article
Pages 63-82

5. Effects of finite tip and sample sizes Original Research Article
Pages 83-102

6. Diffraction techniques — fundamentals Original Research Article
Pages 103-132

7. Diffraction from random rough surfaces Original Research Article
Pages 133-156

8. Diffraction techniques — Experimentation Original Research Article
Pages 157-177

9. Self-affine fractal surfaces Original Research Article
Pages 179-210

10. Mounded surfaces Original Research Article
Pages 211-221

11. Anisotropic surfaces Original Research Article
Pages 223-240

12. Non-Gaussian surfaces Original Research Article
Pages 241-254

13. Two-dimensional fractal surfaces Original Research Article
Pages 255-272

14. Transition to multilayer structures Original Research Article
Pages 273-302

15. Transmission diffraction and fracts Original Research Article
Pages 303-308

16. Effects of surface roughness: Examples Original Research Article
Pages 309-351

Appendix A Growth dynamics
Pages 353-379

Appendix B Time evolution of the interface width in the edwards-wilkinson equation
Pages 381-382

Appendix C Effect of different functional forms of the scaling function on the shape of the diffraction profile
Pages 383-386

Appendix D Joint distributions of random processes with non-gaussian height distributions
Pages 387-389

Appendix E Height difference function C(k⊃, r) for different height distributions
Pages 391-397

Appendix F A perturbative solution of sine-gorden equation
Pages 399-401

Appendix G Speckle
Pages 403-406

Appendix H Diffraction of an ultrafast radiation pulse
Pages 407-409

Index
Pages 411-417