SURFACE METROLOGY

Surface metrology is studying measurement, analysis, and characterization of surface topographies, or textures, including roughness. It is important in a wide variety of fields and situations including adhesion, biological growth, catalysis, corrosion, cleanability, friction, fracture, flow, forensics, geography, heat transfer, mass transfer, oceanography, scattering, wear, and wetting. These impact practically all engineering disciplines and many sciences. they include scales from nanometers to kilometers... We have developed several multiscale geometric analyses and characterization. Using these we discovered strong correlations with processing and performance, and confident discriminations of surfaces that perform or were processed differently. We have developed, patented, and standardized several new multiscale geometric characterization parameters, including length, area, and volume. We are working on curvature. We have found strong function correlations with topographies,..

Also known as: Surface Metrology Laboratory