Specific Process Knowledge/Characterization/Drop Shape Analyzer

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The Drop Shape Analyzer

The Krüss DSA 100S Drop Shape Analyzer will analyze the shape a drop of liquid on a surface, or suspended from a needle, in order to calculate the contact angle, or the surface tension, respectively.

The Krüss DSA 100s Drop Shape Analyzer

The user manual, user APV(s), technical information, and contact information can be found in LabManager:

Drop Shape Analyzer in LabManager

An overview of the performance of the Drop Shape Analyzer

Purpose	Imaging and analysis of of the shape of the interface between liquid and air	Measurement of contact angle between sample surface and liquid Measurement of surface tension of liquid
Performance	Thin film materials that can be measured	Film with a refractive index of less than 2.02 and that are transparent to the light in the given wavelength range ex: Silicon Oxide Silicon nitride polymers
	Film thickness range	~1µm to 15 µm
	Film thickness accuracy	±(0.5%+50Å)
	Index accuracy	±0.001
Process parameters	Available liquids	Syringe 1: Water (H2O) Syringe 2: Diiodo-methane (I2CH2) Syringe 3: Benzyl alcohol (C6H5CH2OH) Syringe 4: Available
Sample requirements	Substrate material allowed	In principle all materials
	Substrate size	Up to 6" wafers. In order to measure a few square mm's of flat surface is required.
	Batch size	One sample at a time