scholarly journals Silicon photodiodes for electron beam position and drift detection in scanning electron microscopy and electron beam lithography system

Author(s):  
Yi-Hung Kuo ◽  
Cheng-Ju Wu ◽  
Jia-Yush Yen ◽  
Sheng-Yung Chen ◽  
Kuen-Yu Tsai ◽  
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Author(s):  
Lucas H. Ting ◽  
Shirin Feghhi ◽  
Sangyoon J. Han ◽  
Marita L. Rodriguez ◽  
Nathan J. Sniadecki

Soft lithography was used to replicate nanoscale features made using electron beam lithography on a polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) master. The PMMA masters were exposed to fluorinated silane vapors to passivate its surfaces so that polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) did not permanently bond to the master. From scanning electron microscopy, the silanization process was found to deposit a coating on the master that was a few hundreds of nanometers thick. These silane films partially concealed the nanoscale holes on the PMMA master, causing the soft lithography process to produce PDMS features with dimensions that were significantly reduced. The thickness of the silane films was directly measured on silicon or PMMA masters and was found to increase with exposure time to silane vapors. These findings indicate that the thickness of the silane coatings is a critical parameter when using soft lithography to replicate nanoscale features, and caution should be taken on how long a master is exposed to silane vapors.


Author(s):  
David Joy ◽  
James Pawley

The scanning electron microscope (SEM) builds up an image by sampling contiguous sub-volumes near the surface of the specimen. A fine electron beam selectively excites each sub-volume and then the intensity of some resulting signal is measured. The spatial resolution of images made using such a process is limited by at least three factors. Two of these determine the size of the interaction volume: the size of the electron probe and the extent to which detectable signal is excited from locations remote from the beam impact point. A third limitation emerges from the fact that the probing beam is composed of a finite number of discrete particles and therefore that the accuracy with which any detectable signal can be measured is limited by Poisson statistics applied to this number (or to the number of events actually detected if this is smaller).


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lo Chea Wee ◽  
Tan Sze Yee ◽  
Gan Sue Yin ◽  
Goh Cin Sheng

Abstract Advanced package technology often includes multi-chips in one package to accommodate the technology demand on size & functionality. Die tilting leads to poor device performance for all kinds of multi-chip packages such as chip by chip (CbC), chip on chip (CoC), and the package with both CbC and CoC. Traditional die tilting measured by optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy has capability issue due to wave or electron beam blocking at area of interest by electronic components nearby. In this paper, the feasibility of using profilemeter to investigate die tilting in single and multi-chips is demonstrated. Our results validate that the profilemeter is the most profound metrology for die tilting analysis especially on multi-chip packages, and can achieve an accuracy of <2μm comparable to SEM.


2011 ◽  
Vol 690 ◽  
pp. 153-156
Author(s):  
Uwe Reisgen ◽  
Simon Olschok ◽  
Alexander Backhaus

This paper gives an account of research which has been carried out on electron-beam brazed specimens made of high-Niobium γ-titanium aluminides. The microstructure in the brazing area of two different brazes (TiCuNi and Ni 102) is explained and analysed via scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy.


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