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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
X-ray reflectometry (XRR) is a unique technique for thin film analysis providing information on thickness, density, and roughness. The Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS) project “X-ray reflectivity measurements for evaluation of thin films and multilayers” has the goal to assess the accuracy and precision of thickness, density and roughness as determined by XRR measurements and simulations. Here we present preliminary results from the second round-robin analysis on a TaN/Ta metallization on a silicon substrate. This work demonstrated a good inter-laboratory reproducibility for the tantalum film thickness with a standard deviation of 0.04 nm corresponding to about 0.3%. The use of the auto-correlation function (extracted from the derivative of density profiles obtained via a Fourier transform) was found to provide useful layer thickness measurements from important samples that are …
Publisher: 
Elsevier
Publication date: 
30 Sep 2008
Authors: 

Richard J Matyi, Laura E Depero, Elza Bontempi, Paolo Colombi, Alan Gibaud, Matej Jergel, Michael Krumrey, TA Lafford, Alessio Lamperti, M Meduna, A Van der Lee, Claudia Wiemer

Biblio References: 
Volume: 516 Issue: 22 Pages: 7962-7966
Origin: 
Thin Solid Films