Films and coatings are used for a variety of purposes in myriad applications. Regardless of their end use, adequate adhesion to the underlying substrate is of paramount importance. Concomitantly, the need to develop techniques for quantitative assessment of adhesion of thin films and coatings is apparent. The papers in this volume address these issues; they were originally presented at the Second International Symposium on Adhesion Measurement of Films and Coatings, held under the auspices of MST Conferences in Newark, NJ, October 25-27, 1999.

From the Preface: “...Since the Boston Symposium in 1992 there has been considerable activity in devising new, more reliable and more efficient ways to measure adhesion on films and coatings. In the opening article in the proceedings volume of the Boston Symposium, yours truly had listed 355 techniques for measuring adhesion of films and coatings. Why are there so many techniques? Apparently, there is no single technique which will apply in every situation or which everyone will be happy with. A more important question is: What do these techniques measure? And the answer is: Practical Adhesion. Quite often the question asked is: What is the best method for adhesion measurement? And the answer is: The best method is the one that simulates the actual usage stress conditions as closely as possible...”

Target Audience: Any researcher, technologist, or student working in the area of adhesion measurement of thin films and coatings.

Table of Contents:

Interface Adhesion: Measurement and Analysis

Relative Adhesion Measurement for Thin Film Microelectronic Structures, Part II

Testing the Adhesion of Hard Coatings Including the Non-Destructive Technique of Surface Acoustic Waves

Scratch Adhesion Testing of Coated Surfaces — Challenges and New Directions

Can the Scratch Adhesion Test Ever Be Quantitative?

Characterisation of Thin Film Adhesion with the Nano-Scratch-Tester (NST)

Scratch Adhesion Testing of Nanophase Diamond Coatings on Industrial Substrates

Scratch Test Failure Modes and Performance of Organic Coatings for Marine Application

An Energetic Approach for the Evaluation of Adhesion of Sputter Deposited TiC Films on Glass by the Scratch Test

On the Evaluation of Coating—Substrate Adhesion by Indentation Experiments

Measurement of Interfacial Fracture Energy in Microelectronic Multifilm Applications

Assessment of Adhesion Reliability for Plastic Flip-Chip Packaging

Adhesion and Abrasion of Sputter-Deposited Ceramic Thin Films on Glass

Improvement and Testing of Diamond Film Adhesion

Effect of Primer Curing Conditions on Basecoat—Primer Adhesion — A LIDS Study

Evaluation of a Pulsed Laser Technique for the Estimation of the Adhesion Strength of Oxide Coatings onto Metallic Substrates

The Blade Adhesion Test Applied to Polyimide Films onto Silicon Substrate

Mechanics of the JKR (Johnson-Kendall-Roberts) Adhesion Test

Revisiting Bimaterial Curvature Measurements for DTE of Adhesive

Raman Spectroscopic Determination of Residual Stresses in Diamond Films