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| author | KP, Harikrishnan Yoon, Dasol Shao, Yu-Tsun Baraissov, Zhaslan Mele, Luigi Mitterbauer, Christoph Kieft, Erik Vespucci, Stefano Muller, David A. |
| author_facet | KP, Harikrishnan Yoon, Dasol Shao, Yu-Tsun Baraissov, Zhaslan Mele, Luigi Mitterbauer, Christoph Kieft, Erik Vespucci, Stefano Muller, David A. |
| contents | With the decreasing sizes of integrated-circuit components, the semiconductor industry is in growing need of high-throughput strain mapping techniques that offer high precision and spatial resolution, with desired industry goals of 0.01-0.1% and 1 nm respectively. As the fundamental limitation on the measurement precision is set by the Poisson noise, pixel array detectors with high saturation current, high dynamic range and fast readout are ideally suited for this purpose. However, due to the limited pixel count on these detectors, they do not work well with traditional strain mapping algorithms that were optimized to work on datasets with a large pixel count. Here, we evaluate the cepstral transform that was designed to address this problem, with the precision determined by the convergence, collection angles and dose while remaining insensitive to the pixel count. We test the performance of our method on silicon wedges and Si-SiGe multilayers, and using datasets collected at different conditions, we show how the measured strain precision scales as a function of dose, aperture size and sample thickness. Using precession gives a further improvement in precision by about 1.5-2x, whereas energy filtering does not have a significant impact on the cepstral method for device-relevant sample thickness ranges. |
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| spellingShingle | Cepstral Strain Mapping for Small Pixel-Count Detectors KP, Harikrishnan Yoon, Dasol Shao, Yu-Tsun Baraissov, Zhaslan Mele, Luigi Mitterbauer, Christoph Kieft, Erik Vespucci, Stefano Muller, David A. Instrumentation and Detectors Materials Science Optics With the decreasing sizes of integrated-circuit components, the semiconductor industry is in growing need of high-throughput strain mapping techniques that offer high precision and spatial resolution, with desired industry goals of 0.01-0.1% and 1 nm respectively. As the fundamental limitation on the measurement precision is set by the Poisson noise, pixel array detectors with high saturation current, high dynamic range and fast readout are ideally suited for this purpose. However, due to the limited pixel count on these detectors, they do not work well with traditional strain mapping algorithms that were optimized to work on datasets with a large pixel count. Here, we evaluate the cepstral transform that was designed to address this problem, with the precision determined by the convergence, collection angles and dose while remaining insensitive to the pixel count. We test the performance of our method on silicon wedges and Si-SiGe multilayers, and using datasets collected at different conditions, we show how the measured strain precision scales as a function of dose, aperture size and sample thickness. Using precession gives a further improvement in precision by about 1.5-2x, whereas energy filtering does not have a significant impact on the cepstral method for device-relevant sample thickness ranges. |
| title | Cepstral Strain Mapping for Small Pixel-Count Detectors |
| topic | Instrumentation and Detectors Materials Science Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08321 |