Theoretical study of different attenuation measurement by acoustic microscopy

Abstract

Many works are devoted to study the attenuation of surface waves in media, particularly, leaky surface acoustic waves (LSAW). In this work, a big part of the study is based on the intensity of the output signal, i.e., acoustic signature, V(z). The latter is obtained by the use of quantitative mode of acoustic microscopy in order to measure the velocity and the attenuation of those excited waves at the limit between the specimen and the coupling liquid. Our aim is to compare the attenuation values of the LSAW propagation in porous silicon obtained with three different methods. The first is obtained by resolving Viktorov equation. The second method is the spectral analysis acoustical signature V(z) curves. The third method uses the dark field. The obtained results are in a good agreement with those experiments.