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Three-dimensional imaging of integrated circuits with macro- to nanoscale zoom

Holler, Mirko
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Odstrcil, Michal
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Guizar-Sicairos, Manuel
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October 1, 2019
Nature Electronics

The imaging of integrated circuits across different length scales is required for failure analysis, design validation and quality control. At present, such inspection is accomplished using a hierarchy of different probes, from optical microscopy on the millimetre length scale to electron microscopy on the nanometre scale. Here we show that ptychographic X-ray laminography can provide non-destructive, three-dimensional views of integrated circuits, yielding both images of an entire chip volume and highresolution images of arbitrarily chosen subregions. We demonstrate the approach using chips produced with 16 nm fin field-effect transistor technology, achieving a reconstruction resolution of 18.9 nm, and compare our results with photolithographic mask layout files and more conventional imaging approaches such as scanning electron microscopy. The technique should also be applicable to other branches of science and engineering where three-dimensional X-ray images of planar samples are required.

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DOI
10.1038/s41928-019-0309-Z
Web of Science ID

WOS:000490703900011

Author(s)
Holler, Mirko
Odstrcil, Michal
Guizar-Sicairos, Manuel
Lebugle, Maxime
Mueller, Elisabeth
Finizio, Simone
Tinti, Gemma
David, Christian
Zusman, Joshua
Unglaub, Walter
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Date Issued

2019-10-01

Publisher

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP

Published in
Nature Electronics
Volume

2

Issue

10

Start page

464

End page

470

Subjects

Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Engineering

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computed laminography

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ray

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reconstruction

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REVIEWED

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