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Real Time Synchrotron Topography Using a CID Array Camera with Digital Image Acquisition and Processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

John M. Winter  and
Robert E. Green Jr.
John M. Winter
Affiliation:
Center for Nondestructive Evaluation The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218
Robert E. Green Jr.
Affiliation:
Center for Nondestructive Evaluation The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218
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Synchrotron white beam transmission topography of GaAs as previously reported by the authors relied on scanning specimen and film synchronously through the incident x-ray beam to record transmission topographic images en film. Sometimes the total dose required for reasonable contrast on film carried with it enough thermal deposition to cause elastic warping of the wafer. To escape these problems, a real time system was assembled. This system included an image intensifier, a solid state camera, a computer board to frame-grab and digitize images, and appropriate image processing software. With this system, a three inch specimen was scanned from edge to edge in one minute. At this scan rate, the incident x-ray beam had to be significantly attenuated to avoid saturating the intensifier output.

Type
III. Applications of Diffraction to Semiconductors and Films
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 38: Forty-third Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis , 1994 , pp. 215 - 219
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1994

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