Optical metrology for nanowires grown with molecular beam epitaxy
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Optical metrology for nanowires grown with molecular beam epitaxy. / Møller Madsen, Jonas Skovlund; Jensen, Søren Alkærsig; Kanne, Thomas; Nygard, Jesper; Hansen, Poul Erik.
Quantum Dots, Nanostructures, and Quantum Materials: Growth, Characterization, and Modeling XVII. ed. / Diana L. Huffaker; Holger Eisele. SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering, 2020. 1129111 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 11291).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Optical metrology for nanowires grown with molecular beam epitaxy
AU - Møller Madsen, Jonas Skovlund
AU - Jensen, Søren Alkærsig
AU - Kanne, Thomas
AU - Nygard, Jesper
AU - Hansen, Poul Erik
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Semiconductor nanowires are important materials for quantum transport experiments and are used in research on qubits. Extended arrays of nanowires can be grown bottom-up by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE). The full process involves several steps. When fabricating nanowires, a common practice is to follow a well-established recipe and only characterize the finalized materials. If the final wires are found to be flawed, the process must be repeated with new parameters. It is therefore desirable to have a characterization method to monitor the process before and after each fabrication step. Conventional characterization techniques such as SEM are time-consuming and, in some cases, damage the samples, e.g. before and after an electron beam lithography process. Scatterometry is fast, accurate, non-destructive and is already used in the semiconductor industry. In this work, it is demonstrated that the imaging scatterometry technique is capable of monitoring the MBE fabrication process of InAs-nanowire arrays during the different process steps. Relevant parameters such as thin film thickness, hole depth, and diameter, etc., are found with nm precision for a macroscopic area in a few minutes. Using this approach, we demonstrate that errors can be caught early in the process and ultimately save resources while assuring a high quality of the final material.
AB - Semiconductor nanowires are important materials for quantum transport experiments and are used in research on qubits. Extended arrays of nanowires can be grown bottom-up by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE). The full process involves several steps. When fabricating nanowires, a common practice is to follow a well-established recipe and only characterize the finalized materials. If the final wires are found to be flawed, the process must be repeated with new parameters. It is therefore desirable to have a characterization method to monitor the process before and after each fabrication step. Conventional characterization techniques such as SEM are time-consuming and, in some cases, damage the samples, e.g. before and after an electron beam lithography process. Scatterometry is fast, accurate, non-destructive and is already used in the semiconductor industry. In this work, it is demonstrated that the imaging scatterometry technique is capable of monitoring the MBE fabrication process of InAs-nanowire arrays during the different process steps. Relevant parameters such as thin film thickness, hole depth, and diameter, etc., are found with nm precision for a macroscopic area in a few minutes. Using this approach, we demonstrate that errors can be caught early in the process and ultimately save resources while assuring a high quality of the final material.
KW - Metrology
KW - Molecular Beam Epitaxy
KW - Nanowires
KW - Scatterometry
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2553680
DO - 10.1117/12.2553680
M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85084171161
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Quantum Dots, Nanostructures, and Quantum Materials
A2 - Huffaker, Diana L.
A2 - Eisele, Holger
PB - SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
T2 - Quantum Dots, Nanostructures, and Quantum Materials: Growth, Characterization, and Modeling XVII 2020
Y2 - 5 February 2020
ER -
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