Spectroscopic Ellipsometer (SE)

Building 63 room 222

Tel: 08-6479368

Head: Mr. Jurgen Jopp - CV


 

Ellipsometers shine polarized light onto a sample and measure the change in the state of the polarization induced by the sample. (Because the most general state of polarization is elliptical polarization, the instrument is called ellipsometer.)

From such measurements we can deduce values for the optical constants of a material (if the sample is a simple substrate) or the thickness and optical constants of a thin film (if the sample is a substrate material covered by one or more thin films).

The sensitivity is excellent. However, as ellipsometry is an indirect method, problems can arise from the correlation between the unknown sample parameters.

This spectroscopic ellipsometer acquires in a single measurement 1024 data pairs over its whole spetral range in less than a minute.

 

Model: SE 800 (Sentech)

Accessories: Compensator, microspot, automated goniometer, automated sample stage with mapping software

Measurment: Fast, non-distructive, non-contact measurement

Measured quantities: Del, Psi (ellipsometric angles)
R, T (Reflectivity, Transmission)

Calculated quantities: n, k (optical constants) as a function of the wavelength
film thickness
composition of multicomponent materials

Sample size: Max. diameter 6”, max. thickness 7 mm

Lateral resolution: The signal is collected from an area of 2 mm * 6 mm (0.3mm * 1mm with the microspots)

Spectral range: 280 nm – 850 nm (330 nm – 850 nm with UV-filter )

Spectral resolution: < 1 nm (1024 element photodiode array)

Angle of incidence: Variable, from 40 to 75 degrees (motorized goniometer)

Applications: Information is found at www.sentech.de

 

 

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