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Säntis 300

Full Wafer Cathodoluminescence Microscope

The Säntis 300 is an automated process control system for wafers up to 300 mm, offering large field-of-view, fast scanning, and simultaneous SEM imaging and CL spectra acquisition.

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Characteristics

About our Full Wafer Cathodoluminescence-SEM Equipment

The system's quantitative CL technology offers unparalleled speed, accuracy, and repeatability with a large 300 μm field of view. Multiple acquisition modes enable detailed defect analysis, material inhomogeneity mapping, and dynamic process tracking, such as dopant activation or elemental fluctuations.

Small-diameter wafers and miscellaneously-shaped substrates can be manually affixed to larger susceptors for automated handling by the tool, making the Säntis 300 well-suited to failure analysis and research applications where quick turnaround time is important.

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Features

About our Full Wafer Cathodoluminescence Microscope

The standard Säntis 300 configuration includes a top-loading loadlock into which wafers are manually placed using a wafer wand. The loadlock facilitates quick loading and unloading operations, increasing throughput compared to our Allalin system. The tool can be upgraded to include support for wafer cassettes (FOUPs) or even a full EFEM with automated wafer handling for integration in fully-automated fabs.

  • Fully automated quantitativeCL metrology
  • Simultaneous SEM imaging & spectra acquisition
  • High throughput & automated wafer handling
  • Wafer bow mapping & alignment
  • Loadlock for fast sample exchange
  • Loadlock for rapid sample loading and unloading

System Configurations: Includes manual or automated loading options for enhanced throughput, with potential upgrades for full automation. It is optimized for cleanroom environments and equipped with height mapping sensors to maintain precision during measurements.

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Applications

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Scientific references

Quantitative intrinsic auto-cathodoluminescence can resolve spectral signatures of tissue-isolated collagen extracellular matrix M.S. Zielinski, E. Vardar, G. Vythilingam, E-M. Engelhardt, J. A. Hubbell, P. Frey, H. M. Larsson Nature Communications Biology, 2:69, 2019 2019
Quantitative Assessment of Carrier Density by Cathodoluminescence (1): GaAs thin films and modeling Hung-Ling Chen, Andrea Scaccabarozzi, Romaric De Lepinau, Fabrice Oehler, Aristide Lemaître, Jean-Christophe Harmand, Andrea Cattoni, Stephane Collin Condensed Matter, 2019 2019
Investigation of GaN Nanowires Containing AlN/GaN Multiple Quantum Discs by EBIC and CL techniques V. Piazza, A.V. Babichev, L. Mancini, M. Morassi, P. Quach, F. Bayle, L. Largeau, F. H. Julien, P. Rale, S. Collin, J-C. Harmand, N. Gogneau, M. Tchernycheva Nanotechnology, 30, 214006, 2019 2019
Visualization of Plasmon-Induced Hot Electrons by Scanning Electron Microscopy Elad Segal, Matan Galanty, Hannah Aharon, Adi Salomon J. Phys. Chem. C, 123, 50, 30528–30535, 2019 2019

Scientific references

InGaN Nanowires with High InN Molar Fraction: Growth, Structural and Optical Properties ZHANG, X., LOURENÇO-MARTINS, H., MEURET, S., KOCIACK, M., HAAS, B., ROUVIÈRE, J.-L., JOUNEAU, P. H., BOUGEROL, C., AUZELLE, T., JALABERT, D., BIQUARD, X., GAYRAL, B., DAUDIN, B. Nanotechnology, 2016, 27, 195704 2016
Lifetime Measurements Well below the Optical Diffraction Limit MEURET, S., TIZEI, L. H. G., AUZELLE, T., SONGMUANG, R., DAUDIN, B., GAYRAL, B., KOCIACK, M. ACS Photonics, 2016, 3, 1157–1163 2016
Extinction and Scattering Properties of High-Order Surface Plasmon Modes in Silver Nanoparticles Probed by Combined Spatially Resolved Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy and Cathodoluminescence KAWASAKI, N., MEURET, S., WEIL, R., LOURENÇO-MARTINS, H., STÉPHAN, O., KOCIACK, M. ACS Photonics, 2016, 3, 1654–1661 2016
Unveiling Nanometer Scale Extinction and Scattering Phenomena through Combined Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy and Cathodoluminescence Measurements LOSQUIN, A., ZAGONEL, L. F., MYROSHNYCHENKO, V., RODRÍGUEZ-GONZÁLEZ, B., TENCÉ, M., SCARABELLI, L., FÖRSTNER, J., LIZ-MARZÁN, L. M., GARCÍA DE ABAJO, F. J., STÉPHAN, O., KOCIACK, M. Nano Letters, 2015, 15, 1229–1237 2015

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