{"title":"Comparison of numerical aperture increasing lens and standard subsurface microscopy","authors":"S. Ippolito, B. Goldberg, M. Unlu","doi":"10.1109/LEOS.2001.969044","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Subsurface inspection of a Si integrated circuit (IC) by a Numerical Aperture Increasing Lens (NAIL) microscope has yielded a lateral spatial resolution of better than 0.23 /spl mu/m. We compare NAIL microscopy to standard subsurface microscopy using the Hamamatsu /spl mu/AMOS-200, IC Failure Analysis System. The NAIL improves the microscope's lateral spatial resolution from /spl sim/1.7 /spl mu/m to /spl sim/0.3 /spl mu/m. It is difficult to obtain the longitudinal spatial resolution because the sample has multiple longitudinal dielectric interfaces.","PeriodicalId":18008,"journal":{"name":"LEOS 2001. 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (Cat. No.01CH37242)","volume":"52 1","pages":"774-775 vol.2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"LEOS 2001. 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (Cat. No.01CH37242)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.2001.969044","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Subsurface inspection of a Si integrated circuit (IC) by a Numerical Aperture Increasing Lens (NAIL) microscope has yielded a lateral spatial resolution of better than 0.23 /spl mu/m. We compare NAIL microscopy to standard subsurface microscopy using the Hamamatsu /spl mu/AMOS-200, IC Failure Analysis System. The NAIL improves the microscope's lateral spatial resolution from /spl sim/1.7 /spl mu/m to /spl sim/0.3 /spl mu/m. It is difficult to obtain the longitudinal spatial resolution because the sample has multiple longitudinal dielectric interfaces.