Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 February 2011
A high-energy (MeV) helium ion beam has been focused down to 1 μm by a combination of piezo-driven objective slits and a magnetic quadrupole doublet. Rutherford backscattering (RBS) mapping techniques using focused MeV ion beams were, for the first time, applied to multilayered structures of metals, isolated with insulators, representing a test structure for multilayered wiring or interconnections of integrated circuits to nondestructively analyze the imperfection of the structures.