Multifractal properties of Pyrex and silicon surfaces blasted with sharp particles

Moktadir, Z. and Kraft, M. and Wensink, H. (2008) Multifractal properties of Pyrex and silicon surfaces blasted with sharp particles. Physica A: Statistical mechanics and its applications, 387 (8-9). pp. 2083-2090. ISSN 0378-4371

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Abstract:	The blasting of brittle materials with sharp particles is an important fabrication technology in many industrial processes. In particular, for microsystems, it allows the production of devices with feature sizes down to few tens of microns. An important parameter of this process is the surface roughness of post-blasted surfaces. In this work the scaling properties of Pyrex glass and silicon surfaces after bombardment with alumina particles are investigated. The targets were bombarded at normal incidence using alumina particles with two different average sizes, 29 μm and 9 μm. This investigation indicates that the resulting surfaces are multifractal. Applying multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MFDFA) allowed us to determine the singularity spectrum of the surfaces. This spectrum did not depend on the target material or on the size of the particles. Several parameters quantifying relevant quantities were determined. It was found that long range correlations are responsible for the observed multifractal behaviour.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2008 Elsevier
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Transducers Science and Technology (TST)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/78944
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2007.11.026
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