Treatment of surfaces with slow electrons

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Treatment of surfaces with slow electrons

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Historically, the most annoying obstacle to acquiring SEM micrographs, in particular higher magnification micrographs taken with the ambition of resolving the finest observable details, may be said to be carbonaceous contamination “highlighting the previous field of view with a black rectangle contoured by an even darker frame. This contamination is generated by decomposition of adsorbed hydrocarbon molecules with incident electrons leaving a crosslinkednlayer of carbon atoms as a surface coating. The darker contours come from high surface mobility of hydrocarbon molecules from outside the field. The situation has been improved in recent decades by a lower pressure and dryer vacuum in specimen chambers, but even under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) conditions the phenomenon occurs due to hydrocarbon molecules deposited on the specimen when loaded. Therefore, only in-situ cleaning with annattachment producing an ion beam solves this problem in UHV, while some plasma cleaners have also started appearing in standard-vacuum SEM chambers. The goal of complete removal of hydrocarbons is motivated by the supposed unavoidability of their decomposition with primary electrons. However, we have found hydrocarbon molecules being released, rather than their decomposition, when the energy of the impinging electrons drops beneath 50 eV or so.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Treatment of surfaces with slow electrons

Popis výsledku anglicky

Historically, the most annoying obstacle to acquiring SEM micrographs, in particular higher magnification micrographs taken with the ambition of resolving the finest observable details, may be said to be carbonaceous contamination “highlighting the previous field of view with a black rectangle contoured by an even darker frame. This contamination is generated by decomposition of adsorbed hydrocarbon molecules with incident electrons leaving a crosslinkednlayer of carbon atoms as a surface coating. The darker contours come from high surface mobility of hydrocarbon molecules from outside the field. The situation has been improved in recent decades by a lower pressure and dryer vacuum in specimen chambers, but even under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) conditions the phenomenon occurs due to hydrocarbon molecules deposited on the specimen when loaded. Therefore, only in-situ cleaning with annattachment producing an ion beam solves this problem in UHV, while some plasma cleaners have also started appearing in standard-vacuum SEM chambers. The goal of complete removal of hydrocarbons is motivated by the supposed unavoidability of their decomposition with primary electrons. However, we have found hydrocarbon molecules being released, rather than their decomposition, when the energy of the impinging electrons drops beneath 50 eV or so.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

JA - Elektronika a optoelektronika, elektrotechnika

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Proceedings of the 15th International Seminar on Recent Trends in Charged Particle Optics and Surface Physics Instrumentation

ISBN

978-80-87441-17-6

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

2

Strana od-do

10-11

Název nakladatele

Institute of Scientific Instruments CAS

Místo vydání

Brno

Místo konání akce

Skalský dvůr

Datum konání akce

29. 5. 2016

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

000391254000003