Affiliation:
1. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Imaging and Sensing Microelectronic Technology School of Microelectronics Tianjin University Tianjin 300072 P. R. China
2. Institute of Biology and Chemistry Zhejiang Institute of Metrology Hangzhou 310018 P. R. China
Abstract
A facile and rapid method for nondestructive testing (NDT) of the Young's modulus of interconnecting thin films using a broadband surface acoustic wave‐interdigital transducer (SAW‐IDT) is presented herein. A linear periodic SAW‐IDT with 20–125 MHz is designed and fabricated to excite surface acoustic wave (SAW) signals on the samples. By applying burst excitations under different frequencies, the SAW waveforms are picked up by a miniaturized piezoelectric transducer and processed by slant stack transformation. Consequently, the SAW dispersion curves over a wide frequency band are established to match the film parameters. Young's modulus of the 100 and 300 nm thickness of SiO2 films and the 800 and 1500 nm low‐k polyimide (PI) films is characterized. The nanoindentation method, as a control experiment, is also carried out to verify the accuracy of the SAW method, and the test results show that the SAW method can eliminate the effect of the substrate with higher precision. This work shows the advantage of the NDT technique by SAW‐IDT in measuring the Young's modulus of ultrathin films with low cost, controllable frequency range, and high accuracy.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science
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