The influence of surface profiles on leakage in room temperature seal-bonding

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 124-129

  Okada, Hironao ^a   Itoh, Toshihiro ^a   Suga, Tadatomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leak; Surface activated bonding; Surface profiles; Vacuum sealing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ROOM TEMPERATURE SEAL-BONDING; SURFACE ACTIVATED BONDING; SURFACE PROFILES; VACUUM SEALING;

SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 42749087635     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2007.12.023     Document Type: Article

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