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Nanoscale x-ray imaging of circuit features without wafer etching

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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 95, 期 10, 页码 -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.104111

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  1. U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
  2. NIH [R01 GM104530]
  3. ARRA: NIH/NCRR High End Instrumentation (HEI) [S10 RR029272-01]
  4. [R01 GM038784]

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Modern integrated circuits (ICs) employ a myriad of materials organized at nanoscale dimensions, and certain critical tolerances must be met for them to function. To understand departures from intended functionality, it is essential to examine ICs asmanufactured so as to adjust design rules ideally in a nondestructiveway so that imaged structures can be correlated with electrical performance. Electron microscopes can do this on thin regions or on exposed surfaces, but the required processing alters or even destroys functionality. Microscopy with multi-keV x rays provides an alternative approach with greater penetration, but the spatial resolution of x-ray imaging lenses has not allowed one to see the required detail in the latest generation of ICs. X-ray ptychography provides a way to obtain images of ICs without lens-imposed resolution limits with past work delivering 20-40-nm resolution on thinned ICs. We describe a simple model for estimating the required exposure and use it to estimate the future potential for this technique. Here we show that this approach can be used to image circuit detail through an unprocessed 300-mu m-thick silicon wafer with sub-20-nm detail clearly resolved after mechanical polishing to 240-mu m thickness was used to eliminate image contrast caused by Si wafer surface scratches. By using continuous x-ray scanning, massively parallel computation, and a new generation of synchrotron light sources, this should enable entire nonetched ICs to be imaged to 10-nm resolution or better while maintaining their ability to function in electrical tests.

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