A Method Based on the Morphology of Lead-Free Solder Powder Adhesive Particle Segmentation

Three kinds of lead-free soldering tin powder particles produced by means of ultrasonic vibration atomization were studied in this paper. For tin powder particles had higher edge angle and more irregular shape which were the two most key elements that may influence the quality of soldering paste, aspect ratio and fractal dimension of those particles were treated as the facts that could reflect the morphology of soldering tin powder particles. Geometrical projected images of those particles were acquired by optical microscope and image computing were processed by morphologic method. Since particles adhesion phenomenon often occurred in actual image processing of soldering tin powder particles, Roberts operator was used for edge detection and in the meantime, Erosion method and Dilation method in morphological operation were applied to segment those adhesive particles. It was shown that the morphologic method proposed in this paper could be applied to segment those images of adhesive particles.