Frozen capillary waves on glass surfaces: an AFM study

Details Frozen capillary waves on glass surfaces: an AFM study Frozen capillary waves on glass surfaces: an AFM study

2006-10-31

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610875v1

European Physical Journal B 54 (11/2006) 121-126

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjb/e2006-00420-6

Using atomic force microscopy on silica and float glass surfaces, we give evidence that the roughness of melted glass surfaces can be quantitatively accounted for by frozen capillary waves. In this framework the height spatial correlations are shown to obey a logarithmic scaling law; the identification of this behaviour allows to estimate the ratio $kT\_F/\pi\gamma$ where $k$ is the Boltzmann constant, $\gamma$ the interface tension and $T\_F$ the temperature corresponding to the ``freezing'' of the capillary waves. Variations of interface tension and (to a lesser extent) temperatures of annealing treatments are shown to be directly measurable from a statistical analysis of the roughness spectrum of the glass surfaces.

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