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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of the Optical Society of America. A Optics, Image Science, and Vision Année : 2018

High-resolution coherent x-ray diffraction imaging of metal-coated polymer microspheres

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Coherent x-ray diffraction imaging (CXDI) is becoming an important 3D quantitative microscopy technique, allowing structural investigation of a wide range of delicate mesoscale samples that cannot be imaged by other techniques like electron microscopy. Here we report high-resolution 3D CXDI performed on spherical microcomposites consisting of a polymer core coated with a triple layer of nickel–gold–silica. These composites are of high interest to the microelectronics industry, where they are applied in conducting adhesives as fine-pitch electrical contacts—which requires an exceptional degree of uniformity and reproducibility. Experimental techniques that can assess the state of the composites non-destructively, preferably also while embedded in electronic chips, are thus in high demand. We demonstrate that using CXDI, all four different material components of the composite could be identified, with radii matching well to the nominal specifications of the manufacturer. Moreover, CXDI provided detailed maps of layer thicknesses, roughnesses, and defects such as holes, thus also facilitating cross-layer correlations. The side length of the voxels in the reconstruction, given by the experimental geometry, was 16 nm. The effective resolution enabled resolving even the thinnest coating layer of ∼20 nm nominal width. We discuss critically the influence of the weak phase approximation and the projection approximation on the reconstructed electron density estimates, demonstrating that the latter has to be employed. We conclude that CXDI has excellent potential as a metrology tool for microscale composites.
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hal-01904914 , version 1 (25-10-2018)

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Eirik Skjønsfjell, David Kleiven, Nilesh Patil, Yuriy Chushkin, Federico Zontone, et al.. High-resolution coherent x-ray diffraction imaging of metal-coated polymer microspheres. Journal of the Optical Society of America. A Optics, Image Science, and Vision, 2018, 35 (1), ⟨10.1364/JOSAA.35.0000A7⟩. ⟨hal-01904914⟩
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