Abstract

AbstractThe reliability of microelectronics devices strongly depends on defects like dislocations in the semiconductor wafers. Whereas several methods are routinely used to measure the dislocation density and residual stress in wafers, there is a need of methods to characterize the strain and stress fields around single dislocations with high lateral resolution. The strain and stress fields around single edge and screw dislocations in GaAs are considered, and the corresponding Raman shifts of the phonons are calculated. Due to the finite local resolution, mappings show averaged strain values. Requirements for lateral resolution and signal/noise ratios of the Raman measurements to characterize dislocations are discussed. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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