Optical metrology for nanowires grown with molecular beam epitaxy

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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.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelQuantum Dots, Nanostructures, and Quantum Materials : Growth, Characterization, and Modeling XVII
RedaktørerDiana L. Huffaker, Holger Eisele
Antal sider8
ForlagSPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
Publikationsdato2020
Artikelnummer1129111
ISBN (Elektronisk)9781510633452
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2020
BegivenhedQuantum Dots, Nanostructures, and Quantum Materials: Growth, Characterization, and Modeling XVII 2020 - San Francisco, USA
Varighed: 5 feb. 2020 → …

Konference

KonferenceQuantum Dots, Nanostructures, and Quantum Materials: Growth, Characterization, and Modeling XVII 2020
LandUSA
BySan Francisco
Periode05/02/2020 → …
SponsorThe Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
NavnProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Vol/bind11291
ISSN0277-786X

Bibliografisk note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by funds from The Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education and by the Danish Innovation Foundation through the Quantum Innovation Center (Qubiz).?

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