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REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Volume 82, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3600594
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- DFG [SFB-TR87, SPP1239]
- Heisenberg programme
- Materials Research Department of RUB
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We report the development of an advanced high-throughput stress characterization method for thin film materials libraries sputter-deposited on micro-machined cantilever arrays consisting of around 1500 cantilevers on 4-inch silicon-on-insulator wafers. A low-cost custom-designed digital holographic microscope (DHM) is employed to simultaneously monitor the thin film thickness, the surface topography and the curvature of each of the cantilevers before and after deposition. The variation in stress state across the thin film materials library is then calculated by Stoney's equation based on the obtained radii of curvature of the cantilevers and film thicknesses. DHM with nanometer-scale out-of-plane resolution allows stress measurements in a wide range, at least from several MPa to several GPa. By using an automatic x-y translation stage, the local stresses within a 4-inch materials library are mapped with high accuracy within 10 min. The speed of measurement is greatly improved compared with the prior laser scanning approach that needs more than an hour of measuring time. A high-throughput stress measurement of an as-deposited Fe-Pd-W materials library was evaluated for demonstration. The fast characterization method is expected to accelerate the development of (functional) thin films, e. g., (magnetic) shape memory materials, whose functionality is greatly stress dependent. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3600594]
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