Approach for Estimating Material Properties of Thin Film on Substrate by Inverse Analysis with Surface Wave Spectroscopy

The characterization of thin film on a substrate is very important for basic research and development of thin-film-coated materials. In this study, an inverse analysis with an ultrasonic spectroscopic technique is presented for quantitatively estimating elastic properties and density of the thin fil...

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Published inTransactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Series A Vol. 60; no. 579; pp. 2664 - 2671
Main Authors Ihara, Ikuo, Tokura, Kiyofumi, Aizawa, Tatsuhiko, Koguchi, Hideo, Kihara, Junji
Format Journal Article
LanguageJapanese
Published The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers 25.11.1994
Subjects
Coated Materials
Elasticity
Inverse Problem
Nondestructive Inspection
Surface Wave
Thin Film
Ultrasonic Inspection
Ultrasonic Spectroscopy
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Summary:The characterization of thin film on a substrate is very important for basic research and development of thin-film-coated materials. In this study, an inverse analysis with an ultrasonic spectroscopic technique is presented for quantitatively estimating elastic properties and density of the thin film on a substrate. The inverse problem is reduced to the optimum problem of minimizing the differences between dispersion curves obtained experimentally and numerically, where the dispersion curve is determined by analyzing the ultrasonic reflectivity measured or calculated from the elastic properties and density of the thin film. First, the stability and accuracy of the solution in the inverse problem are discussed. Secondly, numerical simulation using the optimization procedure with the complex method is carried out for a few sample problems, and the validity of the present procedure is examined. Furthermore, the experiment was demonstrated for TiN-coated tool steel
ISSN:0387-5008
1884-8338
DOI:10.1299/kikaia.60.2664