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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Monitoring Carbon in Electron and Ion Beam Deposition within FIB-SEM.

Nicholas T H Farr, Gareth M Hughes, Cornelia Rodenburg

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nicholas T H FarrDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Sir Robert Hadfield Building, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6761-3600
Gareth M HughesDepartment of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, UK.
Cornelia RodenburgDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Sir Robert Hadfield Building, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9590-375X
University of Sheffield · GBUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/N008065/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/R00661X/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/R513313/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/T517835/1Henry Royce Institute EP/R010145/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is well known that carbon present in scanning electron microscopes (SEM), Focused ion beam (FIB) systems and FIB-SEMs, causes imaging artefacts and influences the quality of TEM lamellae or structures fabricated in FIB-SEMs. The severity of such effects depends not only on the quantity of carbon present but also on its bonding state. Despite this, the presence of carbon and its bonding state is not regularly monitored in FIB-SEMs. Here we demonstrated that Secondary Electron Hyperspectral Imaging (SEHI) can be implemented in different FIB-SEMs (ThermoFisher Helios G4-CXe PFIB and Helios Nanolab G3 UC) and used to observe carbon built up/removal and bonding changes resulting from electron/ion beam exposure. As well as the ability to monitor, this study also showed the capability of Plasma FIB Xe exposure to remove carbon contamination from the surface of a Ti6246 alloy without the requirement of chemical surface treatments.

Indexed as

carbon contaminationcarbon surface analysischaracterisationfocused ion beam microscopysecondary electron emissionsecondary electron hyperspectral imagingsecondary electron spectroscopy

Identifiers

PMID34199625
PMCPMC8199708
OpenAlexW3172295936

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