WO2006051766A1 - 光計測評価方法及び光計測評価装置 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to an optical measurement evaluation method and an optical measurement evaluation apparatus, and more particularly to a highly sensitive optical measurement evaluation technique for a thin film crystal.
- FIG. 3 reflectance spectroscopy (FIG. 3) and emission spectroscopy (FIG. 4) have been used as simple methods for evaluating optical anisotropy.
- the reflectance spectrum shown in FIG. 3 is an evaluation of a gallium nitride (GaN) thin film layer formed on the sapphire A plane, with the horizontal axis representing energy and the vertical axis representing reflectance.
- the excitation light emitted from the lamp light source irradiates the sample with a polarization plane parallel to the crystal axis [-1-120] or [1-100].
- the locations where dispersion occurs correspond to exciton levels.
- Non-Patent Document D o the sapphire A surface and the GaN thin film layer have a uniaxial strain corresponding to the crystal axis due to the difference in thermal expansion coefficient. For this reason, a change in the reflection width according to the change in polarization is observed (Non-Patent Document D o).
- FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of optical anisotropy evaluation based on an emission spectrum.
- the horizontal axis shows energy, and the vertical axis shows the intensity of the emission spectrum.
- Fig. 4 several peaks including impurity levels are observed, but the peak indicated by ⁇ corresponds to the exciton level, and the optical value indicated by the difference between the broken line and the solid line. Anisotropy has been confirmed (Non-Patent Document 2).
- Non-patent ⁇ ffl ⁇ l Optical properties of wurtzite GaN epilayers grown on A-plane sapp hire ": A. Alemu, B. Gil, M. Julier, and S. Nakamura, Physical Review B 57, 3761-37 64 (1998 )
- Patent Document 2 "Spin-exchange splitting of excitons in GaN”: P. P. Pakov, T. Paskova, P. O. Holtz, and B. Monemar, Physical Review B 64, 115201 1-6 (2001)
- Optical devices often use thin-film crystals by heteroepitaxial growth.
- the grown thin film has strain and defects due to differences in thermal expansion coefficient from the substrate and lattice mismatch. Such strains can cause significant changes in electron energy and band structure.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a technique for evaluating optical anisotropy with higher sensitivity.
- optical evaluation of a thin film is realized by detecting the optical anisotropy with high sensitivity using the nonlinearity of electronic polarization.
- the polarization-dependent force of the diffracted light spectrum also estimates the optical anisotropy of the thin film.
- optical measurement evaluation having a sensitivity that is a fourth power of that of a conventional linear spectroscopy technique is realized.
- a gallium nitride semiconductor thin film can be evaluated with high accuracy by detecting minute strains of about MPa (megapascal).
- FIG. 1A is a diagram showing a simplified configuration example for explaining in principle the optical measurement evaluation apparatus according to the present embodiment.
- FIG. 1B is a diagram showing a calculation result example in which the four-wave mixing spectrum obtained for a thin film crystal having anisotropy is plotted with respect to the polarization angle and the energy.
- FIG. 1C is a more specific configuration example of the optical measurement evaluation apparatus according to the first embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 1C is a more specific configuration example of the optical measurement evaluation apparatus according to the first embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the principle of the four-wave mixing method.
- FIG. 3 Evaluation method of optical anisotropy based on reflectance spectroscopy, which evaluates a GaN layer formed on the A-plane of sapphire, with the horizontal axis representing energy and the vertical axis representing reflectance. Is shown.
- FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of optical anisotropy evaluation based on an emission spectrum.
- the horizontal axis indicates energy, and the vertical axis indicates the intensity of the emission spectrum.
- Fig. 5A is a contour map of the peak intensity when the polarized light pulse to be excited is rotated by a half-wave polarizing plate placed on a rotating stage.
- the horizontal axis is energy
- the vertical axis is the angle of polarization.
- This figure shows the optical anisotropy of a gallium nitride thin film epitaxially grown on a sapphire substrate, with the horizontal axis representing energy and the vertical axis representing four-wave mixing (FWM) intensity, and a pulse width of about 150 fs.
- 4 is a spectrum diagram of four-wave mixing obtained when the light pulse is irradiated onto a gallium nitride (GaN) thin film having uniaxial strain.
- FIG. 6 The upper left diagram shows the polarization dependence of the peak intensity when the spectrum of FIG. 5A is approximated by the nonlinear least square method using the Lorentz function.
- the horizontal axis is polarization
- the vertical axis is a diagram showing the intensity of four-wave mixing.
- the lower left figure shows the polarization dependence of the energy peak value.
- the horizontal axis is polarized light
- the vertical axis is energy.
- the right figure is a figure corresponding to the upper left figure and the lower left figure, and shows the oscillator strength, exciton energy and polarization dependence based on each response function.
- FIG. 7A A diagram showing the results of evaluating a GaN thin film (GaN layer with a substrate removed: sample having a thickness of 70 ⁇ ) using the optical measurement evaluation apparatus according to the present embodiment.
- FIG. 7B is a diagram showing the results of evaluating a GaN thin film (having a GaN layer grown on an isotropic substrate: a sample having a thickness of 2.3 ⁇ m) using the optical measurement evaluation apparatus according to the present embodiment. .
- Sono 8 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the optical measurement evaluation apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- Sono 9] is a diagram showing a configuration example of the measuring apparatus in the third embodiment of the present invention.
- a ... Optical measurement and evaluation device 1 ... Optical node generator, 3 ... Half mirror, 5 ... First mirror, ⁇ '"Second mirror, 9 ... Third mirror, 11 ... Fourth 15 ... Wave plate (half-wave phase plate), 17 ... Lens, 21 ... Spectroscope, 23 ... Personal computer PC functioning as a control device BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
- FIG. 1C is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the optical measurement evaluation apparatus according to the present embodiment.
- Figure 2 shows the principle of the four-wave mixing method. As shown in Figure 2, the four-wave mixing method has two different wave vectors (e.g., k and k) for thin film samples.
- a diffraction grating with electronic polarization (wave number vector of interference wave: G) is formed on sample S.
- This diffraction grating detects diffracted light (2k -k) by self-diffracting one optical pulse.
- Four-wave mixing is a well-known nonlinear spectroscopy.
- the spin has a momentum corresponding to the circular polarization of light. Therefore, the spin addition can be excited by linearly polarized light.
- the upward spin (T) and downward spin ( ⁇ ) states of the valence band hole are degenerate. This time non
- the quantum state (T +) described by the sum of spins and ( ⁇ -I) have different energies.
- Each quantum state (( ⁇ + ⁇ ) and ( ⁇ - ⁇ ) have different energies.
- FIG. 1A is a diagram showing a simplified configuration example for explaining in principle the optical measurement evaluation apparatus according to the present embodiment.
- Two pulse lights 101 and 102 having different wave vectors aligned with parallel linearly polarized light emitted from a laser (not shown) and having an arbitrary delay time difference ⁇ (including 0) are provided with a half stage provided with a rotation stage.
- the four-wave mixing spectrum was dispersed through the wave plate 105 while simultaneously rotating the polarization with respect to any crystal axis of the object to be measured (in the figure, a GaN crystal formed on the c-axis oriented sapphire surface).
- FIG. With such a simple configuration, it is possible to detect minute changes in optical anisotropy that are not affected by the background.
- FIG. 1B is a diagram showing an example of a calculation result in which a four-wave mixing spectrum obtained for an anisotropic thin film crystal is plotted with respect to a polarization angle and energy. As shown in Fig. 1B, it is possible to represent the exciton polarity in three dimensions.
- optical measurement evaluation apparatus According to the present embodiment, the optical measurement evaluation apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described more specifically.
- FIG. 1C is a diagram showing a configuration example of the optical measurement evaluation apparatus according to the present embodiment.
- the optical measurement evaluation apparatus A includes an optical panel generator 1 that generates an optical pulse, a half mirror 3, a first mirror 5, and a second mirror 7.
- the optical pulse L1 emitted from the optical pulse generator 1 is separated into two pulsed lights L2 and L3 in the half mirror 3.
- the pulsed light L2 is reflected by the mirror 5 and the mirror 7 (pulsed light L4, L5), and the polarization of the light pulse is rotated by the half-wave phase plate 15 placed on the rotating stage 15a, and the lens 17 is used to cause the surface of the sample S
- the focus is adjusted to (L8).
- the light pulse L3 is reflected by the retroreflector 11 that returns light that is non-coaxial and parallel to the incident light (L6), and is reflected by the mirror 9 to reflect the light.
- the polarized light of the pulse is rotated by the half-wave phase plate 15 installed on the rotation stage 15a, and the lens 17 is focused on the same position on the sample S by the optical path L7 different from the above L8 (L7). .
- the sample S is irradiated with the two optically-polarized linearly polarized light simultaneously rotated.
- an optical system is designed such that the same optical pulse is separated into two optical pulses, and the sample is irradiated with different optical paths.
- L8 can have wave number k
- optical pulse L7 can have wave number k. Wave number k and wave respectively
- the four-wave mixing phenomenon shown in Fig. 2 occurs.
- the diffracted light by four-wave mixing is proportional to the fourth power of the magnitude of the electronic polarization (oscillator strength)
- highly sensitive anisotropy can be evaluated for the thin film crystal. For example, if there is an anisotropic change due to uniaxial strain or the like in an isotropic thin film, a large anisotropy appears in the intensity of the diffracted light (2k 1 k) by rotating the polarization of the excitation light pulse.
- FIGS. 5A and 5B are examples evaluated by the optical evaluation method according to the present embodiment, and are diagrams showing optical anisotropy of a gallium nitride (GaN) thin film epitaxially grown on a sapphire substrate. It is.
- GaN gallium nitride
- FIG. 5A is a contour map of peak intensity when the polarized light pulse to be excited is rotated by a half-wave phase plate placed on a rotary stage.
- the horizontal axis is energy
- the vertical axis is the angle ⁇ with respect to an arbitrary crystal direction of linearly polarized light.
- This is equivalent to the optical measurement of X-ray diffraction.
- This method is safe because it does not contain radioactive materials, and because of its small and simple device configuration, it can be used for portable evaluation analysis and crystal evaluation of mounted devices. Furthermore, it has excellent time resolution (X-ray diffraction: millisecond, this method: femtosecond). In this figure, in the measurement shown in FIG.
- the wave plate 15 is rotated by a rotation stage 15a every 1 degree, and the diffracted light spectrum is captured by the spectroscope 21.
- the height of the contour line indicates the intensity of the FWM, and the intensity increases toward the MAX shown above.
- Figure 5A a very clear contour pattern is shown depending on energy and rotation angle.
- FIG. 5B is a diagram showing the relationship between the energy at the rotation angle indicated by the arrow and the intensity of FWM.
- Energy is plotted on the horizontal axis
- four-wave mixing (FWM) intensity is plotted on the vertical axis.
- FWM four-wave mixing
- the rotation angle ⁇ is ⁇
- the top pattern of Fig. 5 ⁇ where the crystal axis direction is [-1-120] (the symbol before the number represents a bar)
- the rotation angle ⁇ force SO. 75 ⁇ corresponds to the pattern in the middle of Fig. 5 ⁇ ⁇ where the crystal orientation is [-2020]
- the rotation angle ⁇ force S0.5 TT corresponds to the pattern below Fig. 5 ⁇ ⁇ where the crystal orientation is [1-100].
- the intensity pattern having a peak near the energy of 3.500 eV corresponds to the peak of the A exciton
- the intensity pattern having a peak near the energy of 3.509 eV corresponds to the peak of the B exciton.
- the peak of the A exciton and the peak of the B exciton show different polarization dependences.
- the GaN epitaxial thin film used as the sample is grown on the sapphire substrate on the A plane, and contains uniaxial strain because there is a difference in thermal expansion coefficient depending on the crystal axis of the sapphire substrate.
- a and B excitons have different optical anisotropy with respect to strain.
- the peak said here is a spectatonole with a certain spread.
- the upper left diagram of FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the polarization dependence of the peak intensity corresponding to each exciton peak when the spectrum shown in FIG. 5B is approximated by a nonlinear least square method using a Lorentz function.
- the horizontal axis represents the polarization angle
- the vertical axis represents the diffraction signal intensity of four-wave mixing.
- saturation of exciton intensity based on many-body effects that appear as exciton increases.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram comparing experimental values and theoretical calculation values after adjusting the arrival times of the two light pulses in FIG. 1 to the sample surface for removal.
- the diffracted light intensity corresponds to the fourth power of the oscillator strength, and it can be seen that the intensity is significantly higher than the evaluation by linear spectroscopy (proportional to the oscillator strength) shown in FIGS. Furthermore, it has been confirmed that the crystal axis direction of the substrate corresponds to the intensity change due to polarization. In other words, A and B excitons are split into two levels with different spin addition methods due to uniaxial strain. This can be confirmed from changes in peak energy.
- the lower left diagram of FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the polarization dependence of the A and B exciton energy values.
- the horizontal axis is the polarization angle ⁇
- the vertical axis is the exciton energy.
- Each force of A exciton and B exciton is separated into two levels with different sums of spins, and changes in the exciton level energy are observed depending on the polarization angle. Yes.
- the split widths of the exciton levels of A and B are very small values of lmeV or less, polarization dependence reflecting the optical anisotropy is clearly observed.
- the laser oscillation gain for example, by estimating the split width of exciton energy having polarization dependence.
- the split width of exciton energy is very useful in designing the optical element. It is an important physical property value that can be obtained.
- the figure on the right side of FIG. 6 is a calculated value when fsin ⁇ is assumed, and corresponds to the ellipsometry result using linear spectroscopy, which is a conventional method.
- the intensity ratio (I / 1) is significantly different from the actual max mm test value.
- the intensity ratio of this method is about 10 times higher than the theoretical calculation results of the conventional method, confirming the realization of high sensitivity.
- Figures 7A and 7B are GaN thin films that can be considered ideally unstrained in general (Figure 8A shows a GaN layer with the substrate removed: a 70 ⁇ m thick sample, and Figure 8B shows an isotropic view.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the results of evaluating a GaN layer grown on a typical substrate (a sample having a thickness of 2.3 ⁇ m) using the optical measurement evaluation apparatus according to the present embodiment. With respect to such a sample, it was difficult to estimate the distortion by the conventional method, but when the optical measurement evaluation apparatus according to the present embodiment is used, it is illustrated. As can be seen, it is possible to confirm the presence of periodic shading with respect to the polarization angle ⁇ .
- the four-wave mixing method is used to detect a minute change in optical anisotropy, and the light pulse excited in the thin film isotropic in the in-plane direction of the sample. Based on the large anisotropy of the diffracted light intensity that appears by rotating the polarized light, the anisotropy inherent in the crystal such as uniaxial strain can be accurately evaluated. It is also possible to estimate the minute energy change and energy splitting of the electronic band structure as represented by the sum of spins caused by the spin exchange interaction caused by the anisotropic external field.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the optical measurement evaluation apparatus according to the present embodiment.
- the optical measurement / evaluation apparatus B according to the present embodiment uses an optical delay system to measure the temporal change of the optical measurement / evaluation apparatus A shown in FIG. Is simplified by introducing a step to separate the light pulse into two. That is, as shown in FIG.
- the optical measurement evaluation apparatus B includes an optical pulse generator 51 that generates an optical pulse L11, a lens 53 that receives the generated optical pulse L11, and an output from a lens 53.
- the diffraction grating 55 that receives the received light pulse and splits it into two
- the lens 57 that converts the light pulses L12 and L13 separated into two by the diffraction grating 55 into parallel light, and the light pulses L12 and L13, respectively.
- the rotary stage 51a and the spectroscope 65 are controlled by the personal computer PC67 so as to automatically take in peak energy and peak intensity.
- the presence of an anisotropic change due to uniaxial strain or the like can be evaluated with high accuracy as in the first embodiment.
- the light pulse can be separated into two light paths with exactly the same light intensity, and 2 on the sample. Since the temporal and spatial overlap of two optical nodes is automatically guaranteed, there is an advantage that the measurement system can be simplified and adjustment of the optical pulse path is not required.
- the measuring apparatus according to the present embodiment shown in FIG. 9 is characterized by obtaining a spatial anisotropy distribution.
- an optical system that includes the spatial movement of the sample is required.
- the optical measurement evaluation apparatus C according to the present embodiment includes an optical pulse generator 70, a wave plate 71, a half mirror 73, a first mirror 75 and a second mirror 81, A first objective lens 77 and a second objective lens 83, a sample S, and an xyz axis stage 85 are provided.
- the light pulse L21 emitted from the light pulse generator 70 is divided into a light plate L22 by separating the light pulse polarized and rotated by the wave plate 71 having the rotation stage 71a and the wave plate 71 having the rotation stage 71a into two directions.
- Half mirror 73 that separates into light pulse L23, mirror 75 that reflects light pulse L22 to change the direction of incidence from one side of sample S, and light pulse L23 that reflects from the other side of sample S
- Mirror 81 that changes direction
- objective lens 77 that focuses light pulse L24 reflected by mirror 75 on sample S
- optical noise L25 reflected by mirror 81 are focused on sample S.
- An objective lens 83, and an xyz axis stage 85 that holds the sample S and can be moved on the x-y-z axis.
- Four-wave mixing spectroscopy emits a signal as diffracted light with high directivity. This means that background noise (e.g. Rayleigh scattered light due to excitation light) is compared to light emitted isotropically, for example.
- background noise e.g. Rayleigh scattered light due to excitation light
- the evaluation apparatus is characterized in that excitation light is irradiated in the opposite direction in order to obtain non-coaxial and high spatial resolution.
- the optical axes of the two excitation lights are set near the center of the objective lens, and the focal points are matched.
- the four-wave mixed signal reflects the difference in direction force and is detected through an optical axis different from that of the excitation light. As a result, it is possible to collect the excitation light in a spatially minute region while separating the excitation light and the four-wave mixed signal.
- the location of the sample where the optical focus is focused is changed by the XYZ stage, and the anisotropy at each point is mapped three-dimensionally by rotating the polarization.
- This makes it possible to estimate the distribution of anisotropic external fields. For example, when a defect such as a threading transition exists in a thin film, an anisotropic strain is induced around the defect, and anisotropy with respect to polarized light is observed. Observation of three-dimensional optical anisotropy enables optical evaluation of defect distribution.
- the optical measurement evaluation method according to each embodiment of the present invention is a non-linear measurement method, and thus strongly depends on the power density.
- imaging within the thin film is possible as long as it is sensitive to the focal position of the light pulse and the loss due to light absorption is acceptable.
- this method it is possible to evaluate the influence of the substrate on the strain, for example.
- the evaluation target of optical anisotropy in each of the above embodiments can also be used when an anisotropic external field is applied to an isotropic thin film crystal.
- the optical anisotropy evaluation technique for uniaxial strain has been described using the gallium nitride semiconductor thin film as an example.
- the present invention is not limited in terms of materials, strain characteristics, and the like. .
- liquid crystal materials and organic semiconductor materials are also objects of measurement. It can also be used for Balta surface analysis.
- the present invention is useful as a thin film evaluation apparatus and a thin film evaluation technique that can accurately evaluate the optical anisotropy of a thin film indispensable for optical devices and electronic devices.
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