Structural inhomogeneity in Silicon-On-Insulator probed with coherent X-ray diffraction

We report our research on X-ray micro-beam diffraction and coherent X-ray diffractive imaging techniques to study structural inhomogeneities in Silicon-On-Insulator continuous plain wafers. Inhomogeneities were measured quantitatively and attributed to limitations of the manufacturing process. 3-dimensional image reconstructions were performed by using our Error-Reduction and Hybrid-Input-Output iterative algorithms. These revealed images of the focussed X-ray beam passing through the active layer of the wafer.