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Simple Plan View Specimen Preparation Technique For Tem Investigation Of Semiconductors and Metals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

A. De Veirman ,
J. Eysermans ,
H. Bender ,
J. Vanhellemont  and
J. Van Landuyt
A. De Veirman
Affiliation:
Universiteit Antwerpen, RUCA, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium.
J. Eysermans
Affiliation:
Universiteit Antwerpen, RUCA, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium.
H. Bender
Affiliation:
IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3030 Leuven, Belgium.
J. Vanhellemont
Affiliation:
IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3030 Leuven, Belgium.
J. Van Landuyt
Affiliation:
Universiteit Antwerpen, RUCA, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium.
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Abstract

This paper discusses a rapid and simple specimen preparation technique which was originally developed for plan view TEM investigation of processed silicon, but which afterwards was modified for the study of GaAs, Al/Al2O3 and Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) structures. The major advantage of this poor man's method is that no specialised nor expensive equipment is needed.

A second technique is also described which is used in the case of unseeded SOI structures where the analysis of the top silicon layer is important.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 115: Symposium W – Specimen Preparation for Transmission Electron Microscopy of Materials I , 1987 , 241
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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