Contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................1
1.1 Objective of the investigation................................................................................1
1.2 Competing approaches .........................................................................................4
1.2.1 Testing ultra-thin films by laser-acoustics .....................................................4
1.2.2 Testing in Nuclear Industry by laser-acoustics ..............................................5
1.2.3 Non-destructive evaluation by laser-acoustics................................................6
2 Materials and Technologies .........................................................................................7
2.1 Laser principles and applications .........................................................................7
2.1.2 Types and operating principles ....................................................................10
2.2 Surface Acoustic Waves......................................................................................14
2.2.1 Rayleigh waves ............................................................................................16
2.2.2 Lamb waves.................................................................................................18
2.2.3 Love waves ..................................................................................................20
3 Experiment and Results ............................................................................................22
3.1 Experimental equipment ....................................................................................22
3.1.1 N2 laser ........................................................................................................22
3.1.2 Function generator Agilent 33220A .............................................................24
3.1.3 Oscilloscope WaveRunner 44Xi ...................................................................26
3.1.4 Inter Digital Transducer..............................................................................28
3.2 Experimental method .........................................................................................30
3.2.1 Exciting equipment......................................................................................30
3.2.3 Experiment in Fraunhofer in Dresden .........................................................33
3.3 Experimental results...........................................................................................35
4 Evaluation and Discussion.........................................................................................47
4.1 Acoustic wave guide Sensor with Silicon substrate .............................................47
4.2 Acoustic wave guide Sensor with Aluminum substrate .......................................53
5 Conclusion.................................................................................................................54