Journal
PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 219, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.202100414
Keywords
focused ion beam; nanoscale characterizations; Ni-based superalloys; orthogonal time of flight; scanning electron microscopy; secondary-ion mass spectrometry
Funding
- Orsay Physics
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SIMS is a widely used chemical analysis technique in semiconductor science and metallurgy, providing semiquantitative information on the depth distribution of elements. The development of innovative analytical SIMS implemented in FIB/SEM allows high-resolution elemental chemical mapping, demonstrating excellent performance for nanoscale characterization of materials.
Secondary-ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) is probably the most widely used chemical analysis technique in semiconductor science and in metallurgy because of its ultimate sensitivity to all elements and in particular to light elements providing semiquantitative information on the depth distribution of elements, for instance, doping elements (i.e., B, H), contaminants (i.e., C and O), chemical gradients, and segregation in thin films and at interfaces, etc. With the size shrinking of systems, high-resolution 3D chemical imaging is becoming a prerequisite for the development of new materials at the nanoscale and for the deep understanding of the correlation between their properties and functionalities. Herein, the development of an innovative analytical SIMS implemented in a focused ion beam (FIB) (using Ga source)/scanning electron microscope (SEM) is reported. The equipment enables to give elemental chemical mapping at very high resolution (<30 nm) by precise optimization of the secondary-ion optics and detection, while preserving excellent sensitivity, thanks to the integration of a gas injection system (GIS), which improves a positive (negative) ionization rate with oxygen (cesium) injection. The capability of the technique is demonstrated with nanoscale characterization of Ni-based superalloys with broad applications in the manufacturing of engine parts and accessories for aircraft and aerospace equipment.
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