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Txrf Semiconductor Applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

R. S. Hockett
R. S. Hockett*
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Charles Evans & Associates 301 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
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This is a review of Total reflection X-Ray Fluorescence (TXRF) applications for semiconductors. This review is limited to surface analysis of contamination for semiconductors and does not include chemical analysis in semiconductor processing. TXRF for surface analysis is a relatively new technology. One of the first publications occurred in 1986 using synchrotron radiation. Publications using commercially available TXRF instruments for semiconductor applications began in 1988. Today there are on the order of 100 TXRF instruments worldwide in the semiconductor industry. Since 1988 there have been about 100 publications in this field, but this number does not include numerous abstracts and publications in Japan where the majority of the commercial instruments are found today. The commercial instruments were developed for the primary application of characterizing the cleaning of planar silicon wafers, however, numerous unforeseen applications were developed by users and many of those applications are reported here. In essence TXRF has much broader application today in the semiconductor industry than supporting the cleaning of silicon wafers.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 37: Forty-Second Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 2-6, 1993 , 1993 , pp. 565 - 575
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1993

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