scholarly journals Comparative study of plasmonic antennas fabricated by electron beam and focused ion beam lithography

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Horák ◽  
Kristýna Bukvišová ◽  
Vojtěch Švarc ◽  
Jiří Jaskowiec ◽  
Vlastimil Křápek ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
H.J. Ryu ◽  
A.B. Shah ◽  
Y. Wang ◽  
W.-H. Chuang ◽  
T. Tong

Abstract When failure analysis is performed on a circuit composed of FinFETs, the degree of defect isolation, in some cases, requires isolation to the fin level inside the problematic FinFET for complete understanding of root cause. This work shows successful application of electron beam alteration of current flow combined with nanoprobing for precise isolation of a defect down to fin level. To understand the mechanism of the leakage, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) slice was made along the leaky drain contact (perpendicular to fin direction) by focused ion beam thinning and lift-out. TEM image shows contact and fin. Stacking fault was found in the body of the silicon fin highlighted by the technique described in this paper.


Author(s):  
P. Perdu ◽  
G. Perez ◽  
M. Dupire ◽  
B. Benteo

Abstract To debug ASIC we likely use accurate tools such as an electron beam tester (Ebeam tester) and a Focused Ion Beam (FIB). Interactions between ions or electrons and the target device build charge up on its upper glassivation layer. This charge up could trigger several problems. With Ebeam testing, it sharply decreases voltage contrast during Image Fault Analysis and hide static voltage contrast. During ASIC reconfiguration with FIB, it could induce damages in the glassivation layer. Sample preparation is getting a key issue and we show how we can deal with it by optimizing carbon coating of the devices. Coating is done by an evaporator. For focused ion beam reconfiguration, we need a very thick coating. Otherwise the coating could be sputtered away due to imaging. This coating is use either to avoid charge-up on glassivated devices or as a sacrificial layer to avoid short circuits on unglassivated devices. For electron beam Testing, we need a very thin coating, we are now using an electrical characterization method with an insitu control system to obtain the right thin thickness. Carbon coating is a very cheap and useful method for sample preparation. It needs to be tuned according to the tool used.


1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 277-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takao Shiokawa ◽  
Pil Hyon Kim ◽  
Manabu Hamagaki ◽  
Tamio Hara ◽  
Yoshinobu Aoyagi ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (46) ◽  
pp. 465302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Ozhan Altun ◽  
Jun-Ho Jeong ◽  
Jong-Joo Rha ◽  
Ki-Don Kim ◽  
Eung-Sug Lee

2006 ◽  
Vol 983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Simpson ◽  
Ian V Mitchell

AbstractAperture arrays were fabricated in 1.0µm thick gold films supported on 20nm thick silicon nitride membranes. Lithographic milling strategies in gold were evaluated through the use of in-situ sectioning and high resolution SEM imaging with the UWO CrossBeam FIB/SEM. A successful strategy for producing a 250nm diameter hole with sidewalls approaching vertical is summarized.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislav Tiagulskyi ◽  
Roman Yatskiv ◽  
Hana Faitová ◽  
Šárka Kučerová ◽  
David Roesel ◽  
...  

We study the effect of thermal annealing on the electrical properties of the nanoscale p-n heterojunctions based on single n-type ZnO nanorods on p-type GaN substrates. The ZnO nanorods are prepared by chemical bath deposition on both plain GaN substrates and on the substrates locally patterned by focused ion beam lithography. Electrical properties of single nanorod heterojunctions are measured with a nanoprobe in the vacuum chamber of a scanning electron microscope. The focused ion beam lithography provides a uniform nucleation of ZnO, which results in a uniform growth of ZnO nanorods. The specific configuration of the interface between the ZnO nanorods and GaN substrate created by the focused ion beam suppresses the surface leakage current and improves the current-voltage characteristics. Further improvement of the electrical characteristics is achieved by annealing of the structures in nitrogen, which limits the defect-mediated leakage current and increases the carrier injection efficiency.


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