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Paper Abstract
Scanning electron microscopes (SEM) are used extensively in research and advanced manufacturing for materials characterization, metrology and process control. Unfortunately, noise can limit the specimen-specific detail and the information that can be acquired in any SEM micrograph, or measurement made from those data. The majority of SEM measurements are done at low primary electron beam currents and fast imaging mode resulting in rather noisy signals - often too noisy. The amount and the type of the noise and the steps taken to deal with it are critical to the quality and amount of the information gathered. This fifth presentation, in this series of SEM dimensional metrology tutorial papers, discusses some of the various causes of measurement uncertainty in scanned particle beam instruments specifically dealing with signal-to-noise (SNR) and its contribution to measurement imprecision.
Paper Details
Date Published: 15 September 2016
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 9927, Nanoengineering: Fabrication, Properties, Optics, and Devices XIII, 99270G (15 September 2016); doi: 10.1117/12.2236478
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9927:
Nanoengineering: Fabrication, Properties, Optics, and Devices XIII
Eva M. Campo; Elizabeth A. Dobisz; Louay A. Eldada, Editor(s)
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 9927, Nanoengineering: Fabrication, Properties, Optics, and Devices XIII, 99270G (15 September 2016); doi: 10.1117/12.2236478
Show Author Affiliations
Michael T. Postek, National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States)
András E. Vladár, National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9927:
Nanoengineering: Fabrication, Properties, Optics, and Devices XIII
Eva M. Campo; Elizabeth A. Dobisz; Louay A. Eldada, Editor(s)
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