Subsurface signal

A simple test of this suggestion is the comparison of a five-layer slab calculation for the Knight shift in platinum (70) with the spectral fits of the layer model (Fig. 48). In both cases the surface resonance is shifted about 4% to low field wuth respect to the bulk signal, and the subsurface signal is found at approximately the halfway point. Another test is qualitatively to compare experimental results for hydrogen chemisorption on platinum (Fig. 55) with a calculation for hydrogen on palladium (175) in both cases an important diminution of the surface LDOS on the metal is found. 

Figure 12.2 Principle of the spatial SORS concept for the discrimination of subsurface signals.

If a higher degree of separation of the subsurface signals from the surface contribution is required, then this can be accomplished, for a two-layer system, by a simple scaled subtraction of two spectra obtained at different spatial offsets to cancel the Raman contribution from the surface layer. For a stratified sample with more than two layers, a multivariate data analysis can be applied using a... 

The operation is quite simple One sets the frequency to the lowest value, adjusts the gain and phase to the desired sensitivity using a special calibration standard discussed below and performs a zero-compensation on a defect free zone of the standard. Now one is ready to test. As one slides the probe across the surface of an aluminum structure, a signal response will be indicative of the presence of corrosion or of the presence of a subsurface edge. 

The purpose of the nondestructive control consists in detecting local modifications of the material parameters which, by their presence can endanger the quality of the half-finished or finished products. The electromagnetic nondestructive control permits to render evident surface and subsurface discontinuities in the electroconductive material under test. The present tendency of this control is to pass from a qualitative evaluation (the presence or absence of the material discontinuities which give at the output of the control equipment a signal higher or at least equal to that coming from a standard discontinuity whose shape and severity has been prescribed by the product standards) to a quantitative one, which enables to locate as exactly as possible the discontinuity and to make predictions over its shape and severity. 

The existence of asperity contacts in mixed lubrication causes great many local events and significant consequences. For example, the parameters describing lubrication and contact conditions, such as film thickness, pressure, subsurface stress, and surface temperature, fluctuate violently and frequently over time and space domain. It is expected that these local events would have significant effects on the service life of machine elements, but experimental measurements are difficult because of the highly random and time-dependent nature of the signals. Only a few successes were reported so far in experimental studies of mixed lubrication, mostly limited to the artificially manufactured... 

Another very important technique for fundamental consideration of multicomponent systems is low energy ion scattering (LEIS) [Taglauer and Heiland, 1980 Brongersma et al., 2007]. This is a unique tool in surface analysis, since it provides the ability to define the atomic composition of the topmost surface layer under UHV conditions. The signal does not interfere with the subsurface atomic layers, and therefore the results of LEIS analysis represent exclusively the response from the outer surface. In LEIS, a surface is used as a target that scatters a noble gas ion beam (He, Ne, ... 

The depth in the sample surface from which the PA signal comes depends on the beam chopping frequency. At low chopping frequencies spectral information comes from greater depths in the sample. In other words, if one speeds up the motor of the device, such as a fan blade, that is chopping the incident light beam, not only will S/N diminish, but the sample will also be probed at a shallower depth below its surface. This ability to yield subsurface spectral and thermal information is a peculiar advantage of PAS over reflectance and transmission spectroscopies that still remains to be widely exploited (5). 

---