Specific Process Knowledge/Characterization/Optical characterization

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Ellipsometer

Filmtek 4000

FilmTek: positioned in cleanroom 2


A rough overview of the performance of the FilmTek and some process related parameters

Purpose Film thickness measurements and optical characterization of optically transparent thin films
  • Measurement of (multi layer) film thickness (only one unknown layer)
  • Optical constants
  • Surface roughness
Performance Thin film materials that can be measured

Any film that is transparent to the light in the given wavelength range ex:

  • Silicon Oxide
  • Silicon nitride
  • PolySilicon
  • Photoresists
  • SU8
  • Other polymers
  • Very thin layers of metals (<20 nm)
  • and many more
. Film thickness range
  • <100 Å to 250 µm (depending of the material)
Process parameter range Wavelength range
  • 400-1000 nm
Substrates Batch size
  • One sample at a time - all sample larger than 5x5 mm2sizes up to 6"
. Substrate material allowed
  • In principle all materials
  • Only pure silicon, silicon oxides, silicon nitrides and quartz may be in direct contact with the surface of the stage. If you have metals, III-V materials or polymers on the back side of the substrate the please mount your sample on a silicon carrier wafer.



Prism Coupler

Comparison of the three methods

See here: Film thickness and optical constants of optical transparent films