Focused ion-beam

Focused ion beams (FlBs) have become a popular tool for surface modification of materials and functional structure prototyping at the micro- and nanoscale. Modem FlBs have spot sizes of 5 nm and are produced by using electrostatic lenses to focus the image of a point source, often gallium liquid metal ion source, onto the substrate and to deflect it in a precise fashion. For a comprehensive review of recent 

Internal structure of a PLA (poly D,L-lactide) microsphere (a) intact microsphere, scale bar is 30 j,m and (b) after milling top half using FIB milling, scale bar is lOjim. 

Normally, cross-sectioning is required to examine such microspheres. However, in this case it was possible to remove the outer surfaces of the microspheres, layer by layer. Despite having non-porous surfaces, the microspheres were found to become 

Secondary ion images of a PLA microsphere at different stages of FiB sample preparation (a) top view of ion-miiied trenches, scaie bar is 15. im and (b) fully undercut sample, scale bar is 10 m. 

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Ultramicrotomy is sometimes also used to produce thin samples of solid materials, such as metals [13] which are, however, preferentially prepared by chemical- or ion-etching (see [1]) and focused ion beam (FIB) teclmiques [14]. 

Upon emerging from the quadrupole, the ions are accelerated through about 40 V and focused into the time-of-flight (TOF) analyzer. A pusher electrode is sited alongside this focused ion beam. Application of a pulse of high electric potential (about 1 kV) to the pusher electrode over a period of about 3 ps causes a short section of the ion beam to be detached and accelerated into the TOF analyzer. A positive potential is used to accelerate positively charged ions and vice versa. 

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Two newer areas of implantation have been receiving attention and development. Focused ion beams have been iavestigated to adow very fine control of implantation dimensions. The beams are focused to spot sizes down to 10 nm, and are used to create single lines of ion-implanted patterns without needing to create or use a mask. Although this method has many attractive features, it is hampered by the fact that the patterning is sequential rather than simultaneous, and only one wafer rather than many can be processed at any one time. This limits the production appHcations of the technique. 

Newer techniques that are responding to the need for atomic level imaging and chemical analysis include scanning tunneling microscopes (STMs), atomic force microscopes (AFMs) (52), and focused ion beams (FIBs). These are expected to quickly pass from laboratory-scale use to in-line monitoring apphcations for 200-mm wafers (32). 

Computers will be integrated more and more into commercial SEMs and there is an enormous potential for the growth of computer supported applications. At the same time, related instruments will be developed and extended, such as the scanning ion microscope, which uses liquid-metal ion sources to produce finely focused ion beams that can produce SEs and secondary ions for image generation. The contrast mechanisms that are exhibited in these instruments can provide new insights into materials analysis. 

In the early days of TEM, sample preparation was divided into two categories, one for thin films and one for bulk materials. Thin-films, particularly metal layers, were often deposited on substrates and later removed by some sort of technique involving dissolution of the substrate. Bulk materials were cut and polished into thin slabs, which were then either electropolished (metals) or ion-milled (ceramics). The latter technique uses a focused ion beam (typically Ar+) of high-energy, which sputters the surface of the thinned slab. These techniques produce so-called plan-view thin foils. 

In Dynamic Secondary Ion Ma s Spectrometry (SIMS), a focused ion beam is used to sputter material from a specific location on a solid surface in the form of neutral and ionized atoms and molecules. The ions are then accelerated into a mass spectrometer and separated according to their mass-to-charge ratios. Several kinds of mass spectrometers and instrument configurations are used, depending upon the type of materials analyzed and the desired results. 

TABLE 4.3 Installation Record for Focused Ion Beam Instruments Made by JEOL Semiconductor Equipment Division Instrument Number Customer ... 

As a consequence one might expect that the future needs to rely on hybrid elements which arise from advanced UV-and electron-beam lithography, from imprint techniques or automated and parallelized nanomanipulation techniques, like dip-pen lithography or focused ion-beam techniques in combination with supramolecular approaches for the assembly of molecular inorganic/organic hybrid system. Nevertheless, it is evident for any kind of chemical approach that falling back onto the present-day... 

The need to be able to thin complex microelectronic devices, and to select and thin specific regions within them has resulted in ever-more sophisticated specimen preparation methods involving precision ion polishing. This requirement culminated in the development of the focused ion beam (FIB) technique, which is able to slice out electron-transparent foils from any multilayer, multiphase material with extreme precision. Overwijk et al. (1993) have described such a technique for producing cross-section TEM specimens from (e.g.) integrated circuits. 

Diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy deuterium triglycine sulphate energy compensated atom probe energy dispersive analysis energy-loss near edge structure electron probe X-ray microanalysis elastic recoil detection analysis (see also FreS) electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis extended energy-loss fine structure field emission gun focused ion beam field ion microscope... 

A.A. Bergman, J. Buijs, J. Herbig, D.T. Mathes, J.J. Demarest, C.D. Wilson, C.T. Reimann, R.A. Baragiola, R. Hull, and S.O. Oscarsson, Nanometer-scale arrangement of human serum albumin by adsorption on defect arrays created with a finely focused ion beam. Langmuir 14, 6785-6788 (1998). 

Dayen JF, Mahmood A, Golubev DS, Roch-Jeune I, Salles P, Dujardin E (2008) Side-gated transport in focused-ion-beam-fabricated multilayered graphene nanoribbons. Small 4 716... 

Kuzuhara and T. Nozaki, Active Layer Formation by Ion Implantation Hashimoto, Focused Ion Beam Implantation Technology Nozaki and A. Higashis aka, Device Fabrication Process Technology Ino and T. Takada, GaAs LSI Circuit Design... 

Figure 2.8. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) photomicrographs of (a) a micro-diffractive optical element mold fabricated by a focused ion beam (FIB) and (b) the transferred optical element on a sol-gel film. [Reprinted with permission from Ref. 98.]... 

Dovidenko, K. Potyrailo, R. A. Grande, J., Focused ion beam microscope as an analytical tool for nanoscale characterization of gradient formulated polymeric sensor materials, In Combinatorial Methods and Informatics in Materials Science. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Fasolka, M. Wang, Q. Potyrailo, R. A. Chikyow, T. Schubert, U. 

S. Rubanov and P.R. Munroe, Applications of focused ion beam using FEI DualBeam DB235, Microsc. Microanal., 9(Suppl. 2) 884-885, 2003. 

L.A. Giannuzzi, J.L. Brown, S.R. Brown, R.B. Irwin, and F.A. Stevie, Focused ion beam milling and micromanipulation lift-out for site specific cross-sectional TEM specimen preparation, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 480 19-27, 1997. 

Focused ion beams can be used to expose resist, to write directly diffusion patterns into semiconductor substrates, and to repair masks. These techniques can potentially simplify semiconductor device production and perhaps reduce cost. Many of the technological challenges with ion beams are similar to those encountered with electron beams, but the development of ion sources and focusing/deflection systems are at a much earlier stage of development so application to manufacturing is several years away. 

For the fabrication of stacked junctions we used focused ion beam technique. This technique has been developed for fabrication of both, the short [9] down to submicron scale [10] and the long junctions with a length of several tens microns [17]. For fabrication we used conventional FIB machine of Seiko Instr. Corp., SMI 9800 (SP) with Ga+-ion beam. The four leads were attached outside the junction area. The contact Ag pads were ablated and annealed before the FIB processing to avoid diffusion of Ga-ions into the junction body. The example of a short stack fabricated by FIB technique is shown in Fig. 1. Typically we had slightly overdoped stacked Bi2Sr2CaCu2C>8+8 structures with <5 0.25. They have Tc = 77K, pc(300K) = 10-12 Ohm cm, JC(4.2K) 1 kA/cm2. 

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