profilometer
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Types
- Contact profilometers
- Non-contact profilometers
- Time-resolved profilometers
- Fiber-based optical profilometers
- Applications
- Surface analysis and quality control
- Semiconductors and microelectronics
- Medical devices and biomaterials
- Optical component fabrication
- 3D surface profiling and nanotechnology
- Renewable energy and photovoltaic surfaces
- See also
- References
- External links
alt=NANOVEA PS50 Non-Contact Optical Profilometer|thumb|322x322px|Non-Contact Optical Profilometer thumb|250px|A contact profilometer at Laboratory for analysis and architecture of systems|LAAS technological facility in Toulouse, France.
A profilometer is a measuring instrument used to measure a surface's profile, in order to quantify its roughness. Critical dimensions as step, curvature, flatness are computed from the surface topography.
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