Detection of arsenic dopant atoms in a silicon crystal using a spherical aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscope

2010 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Oshima ◽  
Y. Hashimoto ◽  
Y. Tanishiro ◽  
K. Takayanagi ◽  
H. Sawada ◽  
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2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1488-1489
Author(s):  
Y Oshima ◽  
Y Hashimoto ◽  
H Sawada ◽  
N Hashikawa ◽  
K Asayama ◽  
...  

Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2009 in Richmond, Virginia, USA, July 26 – July 30, 2009


Author(s):  
M. G. R. Thomson

The variation of contrast and signal to noise ratio with change in detector solid angle in the high resolution scanning transmission electron microscope was discussed in an earlier paper. In that paper the conclusions were that the most favourable conditions for the imaging of isolated single heavy atoms were, using the notation in figure 1, either bright field phase contrast with β0⋍0.5 α0, or dark field with an annular detector subtending an angle between ao and effectively π/2.The microscope is represented simply by the model illustrated in figure 1, and the objective lens is characterised by its coefficient of spherical aberration Cs. All the results for the Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM) may with care be applied to the Conventional Electron Microscope (CEM). The object atom is represented as detailed in reference 2, except that ϕ(θ) is taken to be the constant ϕ(0) to simplify the integration. This is reasonable for θ ≤ 0.1 θ0, where 60 is the screening angle.


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