A shear-mode vibrating probe, which can detect the interaction force due to the water layer on the measurement surface, has been utilized as a touch trigger probe for the gap width measurement of micro-slit of the slot die coater.
The high sensitive micro-probing system has been applied for the gap width measurement of precision slot die coater with a nominal gap width of 90 μm.
On-line qualification of probe tip ball diameter setup was carried out to reduce the uncertainty source.
The associated expanded uncertainty of measurement was 78.3 nm (k = 2), which has satisfied the requirement for quality control of manufacturing precision slot dies from industries.