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All surfaces are rough, and the roughness has strong effects on many interesting problems, like wetting, adhesion, friction, light scattering, and surface growth, that are at the forefront of science and technology. The noise caused by the irregular fluctuations on a rough surface is a fundamental source of disorder. It plays an important role in the investigation of the physical properties of rough surfaces and interfaces. The quenched noise, which does not change with time, is usually more important than that of temporal noise [1–3] and will be the main focus in this chapter. The use of fractal concepts in understanding rough surface is increasingly important these days. The self-affine roughness exponent (α < 1) not only defines the scaling properties of the surface, but also plays an essential role in describing the structure-property relationships of interfaces.
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Chow, T.S. (2000). Rough Surfaces and Interfaces. In: Mesoscopic Physics of Complex Materials. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2108-1_8
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