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Foldyna et al., 2011 - Google Patents

Generalized ellipsometry of artificially designed line width roughness

Foldyna et al., 2011

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17562026454876002445
Author
Foldyna M
Germer T
Bergner B
Dixson R
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Thin Solid Films

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We use azimuthally resolved spectroscopic Mueller matrix ellipsometry to study a periodic silicon line structure with and without artificially-generated line width roughness (LWR). We model the artificially perturbed grating using one-and two-dimensional rigorous coupled …
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