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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

Related Applications Using the Säntis 300

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Process development
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Materials Science
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Micro/Nanowire
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GaN device
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Scientific references

Effect of 1.5 MeV electron irradiation on β-Ga2O3 carrier lifetime and diffusion length LEE, Jonathan, FLITSIYAN, Elena, CHERNYAK, Leonid, et al. Appl. Phys. Lett. 112, 082104 2018
Spatially dependent carrier dynamics in single InGaN/GaN core-shell microrod by time-resolved cathodoluminescence W. Liu, C. Mounir, G. Rossbach, T. Schimpke, A. Avramescu, H.-J. Lugauer, M. Strassburg, U. Schwarz, B. Deveaud, G. Jacopin Applied Physics Letters, 112, 052106, 2018 2018
Controlled compensation via non-equilibrium electrons in ZnO Xiuhua Xie, Binghui Li, Zhenzhong Zhang, Shuangpeng Wang, Dezhen Shen Scientific Reports, 8:17020, 2018 2018
Self-assembled hierarchical nanostructured perovskites enable highly efficient LEDs via an energy cascade Xin Yu Chin, Ajay Perumal, Annalisa Bruno, Natalia Yantara, Sjoerd A. Veldhuis, Laura Martínez-Sarti, Bevita Chandran, Vladimir Chirvony, Alencious Shu-Zee Lo, Jinkyu So, Cesare Soci, Michael Gratzel, Henk J. Bolink, Nripan Mathews, Subodh G. Mhaisalkar Energy Environ. Sci., 11, 1770, 2018 2018

Scientific references

Excitation lifetime extracted from electron–photon (EELS-CL) nanosecond-scale temporal coincidences VARKENTINA, Nadezda, AUAD, Yves, WOO, Steffi Y., et al. Applied Physics Letters, 2023, vol. 123, no 22 2023
μeV electron spectromicroscopy using free-space light Auad, Y., Dias, E.J.C., Tencé, M. et al. Nat Commun, 14, 4442 (2023) 2023
Excitation’s lifetime extracted from electron-photon (EELS-CL) nanosecond-scale temporal coincidences VARKENTINA, Nadezda, AUAD, Yves, WOO, Steffi Y., et al. Appl. Phys. Lett., 27 November 2023; 123 (22): 223502 2023
Effective Suppressing Phase Segregation of Mixed‐Halide Perovskite by Glassy Metal‐Organic Frameworks GHASEMI, Mehri, LI, Xuemei, TANG, Cheng, et al. Small, 2023, p. 2304236 2023

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