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Development of Line-Focus-Beam Acoustic Microscopy System for Evaluation of Electronic Device Materials

Research Project

Project/Area Number 01850058
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Developmental Scientific Research (B).

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 電子材料工学
Research InstitutionTohoku University

Principal Investigator

SANNOMIYA Toshio (1990)  Tohoku Univ. Faculty of Engr. Research Staff, 工学部, 教務職員 (40222418)

櫛引 淳一 (1989)  東北大学, 工学部, 助教授 (50108578)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KANAI Hiroshi  Tohoku Univ. Faculty of Engr. Lecturer, 工学部, 講師 (10185895)
KUSHIBIKI Junichi  Tohoku Univ. Faculty of Engr. Assoc. Prof., 工学部, 助教授 (50108578)
CHUBACHI Noriyoshi  Tohoku Univ. Faculty of Engr. Professor, 工学部, 教授 (20006224)
三野宮 利男  東北大学, 工学部, 教務職員
Project Period (FY) 1989 – 1990
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1990)
Budget Amount *help
¥10,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1990: ¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
Fiscal Year 1989: ¥8,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,900,000)
KeywordsLine-Focus-Beam Acoustic Microscopy / V(z) Curve Analysis / Leaky Surface Acoustic Wave / Velocity and Attenuation / Electronic Device Materials / Quantitative Measurements / Acoustic Inhomogeneity / Nondestructive Evaluation
Research Abstract

A system of the line-focus-beam (LFB) acoustic microscope applicable to quantitative characterization of electronic device materials has been developed. Some serious problems, such as mechanical precision and temperature, has been experimentally and theoretically discussed from the point of view of measurement accuracy. It has been shown that stabilization of the temperature of coupling liquid of water in the LFB system is most important for accurate measurements, which are carried out by determining propagation characteristics of leaky surface acoustic waves (LSAWs) on the water/sample boundary. The system has been installed in a temperature controlled room around 23<plus-minus>0.1^゚C. The relative accuracy of LSAW velocity measurements has been estimated to be better than <plus-minus>0.005% at a point and <plus-minus>0.02% over a scanning area of 3-inch diameter.
The system has been applied to investigate the elastic properties of piezoelectric LiNbO_3 and LiTaO_3 crystals. Experiment … More al relations between chemical composition ratios of Li/Nb and leaky surface acoustic wave (LSAW) velocities for 128^゚YX LiNbO_3 wafers have been determined. LSAW velocity measurements have been carried out for commercial wafers obtained from a series of crystal growths. Small changes of 0.092% have been detected due to the compositional variation. It has been estimated that the "effective" congruent composition in the production line is 48.440 Li_2O mol% with the density of 4647.4 kg/m^3. A serious problem regarding the elastic properties of X-112.2^゚Y LiTaO_3 during industrial preparation has been examined with the system. Various types of elastic inhomogeneities have been detected quantitatively as a significant variation of LSAW velocities. In some wafers, large changes, about 2.5%, in LSAW velocities have been observed, which have corresponded to a difference between the velocities for single- and multi-domains. One of the causes has been found to be in the poling process during wafer fabrication.
One of the potential applications is thin-film characterization. A new method of determining the elastic constants, density, and thickness of thin-film materials has been developed using propagation characteristics of leaky Sezawa and pseudo-Sezawa waves in the neighborhood of the cut-off region, in addition to those of leaky Rayleigh waves. It has been demonstrated for a sample of gold film on fused quartz that the values of the stiffness constant, C_<44>, and density have been, respectively, about 11% and 5.5% less than those for polycrystalline bulk gold, and the thickness has been determined as 6370A. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 1990 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1989 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (15 results)

All Other

All Publications (15 results)

  • [Publications] J.Kushibiki: "Cut off characteristics of leaky Sezawa and pseudoーSezawa wave modes for thinーfilm charaterization" Appl.Phys.Lett.57. 1967-1969 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] J.Kushibiki: "Quantitative evaluation of elastic properties of LiTaO_3 crystals by lineーfocus beam acoustic microscopy" Appl.Phys.Lett.(1991)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] J.Kushibiki: "Characterzation of LiNbO_3 crystals by lineーfocusーbeam acousfic microscopy" Appl.Phys.Lett.(1991)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] C.K.Jen: "Long acoustic imaginy probes" Proc.1990 IEEE Ultrasonics Symp. (1991)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] J. Kushibiki: "Cut-off characteristics of leaky Sezawa and pseudo-Sezawa wave modes for thin-film characterization" Appl. Phys. Lett.Vol. 57. 1967-1969 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] J. Kushibiki: "Quantitative evaluation of elastic properties of LiTaO_3 crystals by line-focus-beam acoustic microscopy." Appl. Phys. Lett.(1991)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] J. Kushibiki: "Characterization of LiNbO_3 crystals by line-focus-beam acoustic microscopy" Appl. Phys. Lett.(1991)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] C. K. Jen: "Long acoustic imaging probes" Proc. 1990 IEEE Ultrasonics Symp.(1991)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] J.Kushibiki: "Cutーoff characteristics of leaky Sezawa and pseudoーSeazwa wave modes for thinーfilm characterization" Appl.Phys.Lett.57. 1967-1969 (1990)

    • Related Report
      1990 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] J.Kushibiki: "Quantitative evaluation of elastic properties of LiTaO_3 crystals by lineーfocusーbeam acoustic microscopy" Appl.Phys.Lett.(1991)

    • Related Report
      1990 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] J.Kushibiki: "Characterization of LiNbO_3 crystals by lineーfocusーbeam acoustic microscopy" Appl.Phys.Lett.(1991)

    • Related Report
      1990 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] C.K.Jen: "Long acoustic imaging probes" Proc.1990 IEEE Ultrasonics Symp.(1991)

    • Related Report
      1990 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] J.Kushibiki: "Quantitative Evaluation of Elastic Properties of LiNbo_3 and LiTaO_3 Crystals by Line-Beam Acoustic Microscope." Appl.Phys.Lett.(1990)

    • Related Report
      1989 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] J.Kushibiki: "Application of Line-Focus-Beam Acoustic Microscope to Inhomogeneneity Detection in SAW Device Materials." IEEE Trans.UFFC. (1990)

    • Related Report
      1989 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] J.Kushibiki: "Quantitative Evaluation of Acoustic Properties of Thin-Film Materials By Line-Focus-Beam Acoustic Microscope." Electron.Lett.(1990)

    • Related Report
      1989 Annual Research Report

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