Droplets and uniform films are two equilibrium states of liquid on a substrate, also referred to as partial wetting and complete wetting respectively. A quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) is a device capable of measuring film thickness on a substrate. A QCM apparatus was constructed for observation of the wetting transition between these two states. A computer program was designed to run experiments using this apparatus.

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Creator

• Waegell, Mordecai J.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 05B011M

Advisor

• Garcia, Rafael

Year

• 2005

Date created

• 2005-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Physics

Rights statement

• In Copyright