Journal
JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY B
Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
A V S AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1116/1.3660797
Keywords
amorphisation; copper; failure analysis; field ionisation; focused ion beam technology; metallic thin films; nanoelectromechanical devices; neon; silicon compounds; transmission electron microscopy
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As the semiconductor device scaling trend continues, advancement in both focused ion beam source development and application innovations are needed to retain failure analysis and nanomachining application capabilities. In this work, a neon gas field ionization source was studied for its nanomachining properties. The authors have analyzed neon's nanomachining precision at 10 and 20 keV on blank Cu and SiO2 thin films. Subsurface material amorphization from neon and its correlation with beam current distribution are characterized by TEM. In addition, some preliminary nanomachining work was performed on a 32 nm test chip and successfully demonstrated end-pointing on various device layers. (C) 2011 American Vacuum Society. [DOI: 10.1116/1.3660797]
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