Carl Zeiss Crossbeam

Carl Zeiss Crossbeam
Introduction and Oil & Gas Applications
Heiko Stegmann
Application Specialist Crossbeam
Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
22.01.2014
Carl Zeiss Crossbeam
Introduction and Oil & Gas Applications
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Introduction to Crossbeam: Components
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Introduction to Crossbeam: Examples
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Components of a Crossbeam
High resolution imaging
Nanoscale material shaping
Nanoscale gas chemistry
Highly extensible
SEM
ZEISS Crossbeam
GIS
FIB
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Components of a Crossbeam
High resolution imaging
Nanoscale material shaping
Nanoscale gas chemistry
Highly extensible
SEM
ZEISS Crossbeam
GIS
FIB
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Introduction to Crossbeam
GEMINI SEM column
Chamber and Inlens SE detectors:
Topographic and high
resolution information
Secondary electrons
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Inlens Energy Selective
Backscatter detector:
Compositional contrast
ZEISS GEMINI
detection
principle
Backscattered
electrons
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Components of a Crossbeam
High resolution imaging
Nanoscale material shaping
Nanoscale gas chemistry
Highly extensible
SEM
ZEISS Crossbeam
GIS
FIB
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Liquid Metal Ion Source (LMIS)
Gallium Ion Source
Taylor cone
From: US Patent 6531811B1
Form a
Focused Ion
Beam (FIB)
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Driesel et al., MPI Halle, Germany, 1996.
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Components of a Crossbeam
High resolution imaging
Nanoscale material shaping
Nanoscale gas chemistry
Highly extensible
SEM
ZEISS Crossbeam
GIS
FIB
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Introduction to Crossbeam:
High SEM resolution at low voltage
Backscattered Electrons
Stopped Electrons
C +Os
C
10nm
C +Os
C
E = 10 keV
High electron energies not suitable
for high resolution imaging!
C +Os
C
10nm
C +Os
C
E = 1.5 keV
Escape depth for single scattered
BSE < 5 nm
In-lens detectors allow high resolution imaging
at low voltage
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Components of a Crossbeam
High resolution imaging
Nanoscale material shaping
Nanoscale gas chemistry
Highly extensible
SEM
ZEISS Crossbeam
GIS
FIB
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Basic FIB operation modes
FIB imaging
SE and SI generation
by I-beam
FIB milling
Sputtering of substrate
atoms by I-beam
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Chemical processes
I-beam induced
deposition
Gas enhanced I-beam
etching
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Example: FIB imaging
Visualisation of intergranular corrosion in a Ni based
superalloy by secondary ion detection.
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Example: Nanopatterning
• Nanometer precision
material removal and
deposition by FIB and Ebeam
• Easy creation of arbitrary
patterns
• Full control of the whole
patterning process (dwell
times, pixel spacing, scan
regime, etc.)
• Resolution 65k x 65k Pixel
AFM tip modification
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Example: Nanopatterning
Movie
FE-tips in Si
Fresnel zone plate
Pillar array in Si
“NanObama”
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Microfluidic device
Photonic pattern
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Components of a Crossbeam
High resolution imaging
Nanoscale material shaping
Nanoscale gas chemistry
Highly extensible
SEM
ZEISS Crossbeam
GIS
FIB
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Example: FIB deposition and gas enhanced etch
Freestanding carbon
coil. Pitch is a function
of the dwell time.
200 nm thick free standing iridium wire on
silicon
FIB induced material deposition from precursor gases
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Components of a Crossbeam
High resolution imaging
Nanoscale material shaping
Nanoscale gas chemistry
Highly extensible
SEM
ZEISS Crossbeam
GIS
FIB
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Example: FIB milling X-sectioning for SEM imaging
In-lens SE
Chamber SE
ZnTe
CdS
Au
ZnTe
CdS?
CdTe
~2µm
CdTe
ZnTe?
EsB
CdS
SnO2
ZnTe
glass
Nominal
Layer Stack
FIB cross-section of a CdTe thin
film solar cell
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Imgaging with different
SEM detectors at 2 kV
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Example: FIB milling with live SEM imaging
FIB and SEM
optics are
completely
independent!
Observing the milling process with the SEM in real time
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Example: TEM sample preparation
In-Situ Lift Out
Sample after milling
Micromanipulator tip is
welded to lamella
Lamella cut-out
TEM Sample
Lamella lift-out
Lamella transfer to TEM grid and welding to grid by
GIS metal deposition
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Example: Automatic TEM sample preparation
H-bar type lamellas
Lift-out type lamellas
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Tomography
1. Remove a slice of
material with the
focused ion beam
2. Acquire an SEM
image
3. Repeat until the
complete volume
of interest is
sectioned
(automated)
1 µm
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Tomography
y
1. Remove a slice of
material with the
focused ion beam
2. Acquire an SEM
image
3. Repeat until the
complete volume
of interest is
sectioned
(automated)
4. Align images
x
SEM images
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Tomography
Projection
Rendering
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1. Remove a slice of
material with the
focused ion beam
2. Acquire an SEM
image
3. Repeat until the
complete volume
of interest is
sectioned
(automated)
4. Align images
5. Visualise volume
and calculate
geometrical
properties
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Tomography
FIB/SEM fills the gap between TEM tomography and X-ray tomography
(10 mm) 3
Large
Large volume,
volume,
high
resolution
low resolution
Volume of Material Analyzed
(1 mm) 3
X-ray
tomography/
microscopy
(100 µm) 3
(10 µm) 3
FIB
Tomography
(1 µm) 3
Electron tomography
(100 nm) 3
Small volume,
high resolution
3D atom probe/LEAP
(10 nm) 3
0.1 nm
1 nm
10 nm
100 nm
1 µm
10 µm
100 µm
1 mm
Approximate Voxel Dimensions
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Introduction to Crossbeam:
Typical tomography parameters
Voxel size can be easily adapted to resolution requirements. Typically
below 50 nm. Below 5 nm possible by imaging with low-loss, low-kV BS
electrons.
Volume 5 to 30 µm3
Image dimensions and data size (8-bit grey level tiff):
1024 x 786: 800 slices
-> 640 MB
2048 x 1572: 1600 slices -> 5 GB
3096 x 2358: 3000 slices -> 21 GB
Goal: Isotropic
voxel size
dx = dy = dz
SEM 1-2 kV, dwell time 5-10µsec/pixel -> high S/N ratio
FIB 30 kV, 0.5-1.5nA
Acquisition time ≈ 1min/slice (40-60 slices/hour)
Completely automated acquisition of data cube (several hours).
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Tomography examples
Cement
Shale Rock
Retina
tissue
Rat brain
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Courtesy of Marco Cantoni, EPFL Lausanne
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Tomography with ATLAS 3D
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Components of a Crossbeam
High resolution imaging
Nanoscale material shaping
Nanoscale material deposition
Highly extensible
SEM
ZEISS Crossbeam
GIS
FIB
Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH, Dr. Heiko Stegmann, Training, Application and Support Center (TASC)
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Components of a Crossbeam
High resolution imaging
Nanoscale material shaping
Nanoscale material deposition
Highly extensible (BSE, SE, SI and STEM
detectors, EDS, WDS, EBSD, CL, SIMS,
flood gun, micromanipulators, cryo,
SEM
electrical test equipment,
…)
ZEISS Crossbeam
GIS
FIB
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Example: Gun shot residual analysis
Identification of gun shot residual origin by combination of
FIB, EBSD and EDX analysis.
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Example: 3D EDS elemental analysis
Lead free solder Ag(SnO2, In2O3)
Quantitative 3D silver L-series map
Zn , In and O 3D map
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Example: 3D EBSD crystalline structure analysis
Simultaneous 3D EBSD and EDS analytics
Slice 1 (0 µm)
Slice 6 (0.5 µm)
Slice 11 (1.0 µm)
Slice 16 (1.5 µm)
3D
microstructur
al
information
Slice 21 (2.0 µm)
3D chemical
information
Sample: Friction steer
welded Al
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Laser option for extremely fast material removal
Method
Scanner
head
Laser
Coupling
tube
Process
chamber
FIB
High
current
FIB
FIB
combined
with GIS
Plasma
ion source
FIB
Milling rate Time needed
to remove
of silicon
0.3 mm3
[µm3/s]
2.7
3.5 years
30
116 days
250
14 days
2 000
1.7 days
355-nm
1 000 000
DPSS laser
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5 minutes
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Introduction to Crossbeam
Example: Laser applications
Flip chip
Laser micromachining
Electric drive power module
1 mm
Mobile display
Lacquered sheet steel
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas
Correlating images with SmartBrowse
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas
Large area high resolution imaging with ATLAS
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas
Large area high resolution imaging
Conventional:
Small tile acquisition and stitching
→ many stage movements, large
overlap areas.
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ZEISS ATLAS:
Tile size and overlap optimized
→ Less acquisition time
→ Higher sample throughput.
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas
Large area high resolution imaging
Conventional:
Small tile acquisition and stitching
→ many stage movements, large
overlap areas.
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ZEISS ATLAS:
Image only selected ROIs
→ Even less acquisition time!
→ Even higher sample throughput!
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas
Laser sample preparation
Shale rock cut
Shale rock micropillars for XRM
Sandstone micropillar
Noses for Crossbeam tomography
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas
Tomography of shale rock
Volume 12x10x12 µm3
Voxel size 15x15x30 nm3
405 slices
Acquisition time 3:15 h
Coarse cuts and
Pt deposition
Top view before and
after tomography
series acqusition
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas
Tomography of shale rock
EsB detector
SESI detector
Raw image
series
After
translational
alignment
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas
Tomography of shale rock
Virtual sectioning of the data cube
XY
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YZ
XZ
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas:
Tomography of shale rock
Edit LUT
Data
processing: for
pore
segmentation
from two
detector
signals
Auto Local Threshold
(Sauvola algorithm)
EsB
detector
Auto Local Threshold
(Sauvola algorithm)
Invert, Min,
Remove Outliers
SESI
detector
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas
Tomography of shale rock
Segmentation
→ Pore connectivity (pores of same colour
are connected)
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Volume (µm^3)
Surface (µm^2)
Nb of obj. voxels
3.38E-06
0.001
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1.86E-04
0.048
55
6.75E-06
0.002
2
0.068
5.045
20171
3.38E-06
0.001
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30.443
878.279
9020262
1.76E-04
0.028
52
6.14E-04
0.102
182
6.08E-05
0.013
18
4.39E-05
0.01
13
3.98E-04
0.068
118
2.03E-05
0.005
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0.02
2.021
5960
1.15E-04
0.022
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2.13E-04
0.037
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0.004
0.252
1268
0.041
2.073
12106
6.31E-04
0.112
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3.85E-04
0.068
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0.004
0.28
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0.005
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0.057
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9.79E-05
0.019
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7.76E-05
0.016
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0.089
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0.028
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8.78E-05
0.018
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4.15E-04
0.072
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8.44E-05
0.015
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4.39E-05
0.009
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0.011
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5.06E-05
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0.009
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2.36E-05
0.006
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2.03E-05
0.005
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2.70E-05
0.007
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1.01E-04
0.019
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4.32E-04
0.071
128
3.38E-05
0.009
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3.38E-06
0.001
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2.57E-04
0.04
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0.007
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0.013
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3.11E-04
0.07
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6.75E-06
0.002
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7.76E-05
0.015
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2.70E-04
0.046
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→ Pore statistics
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas
Pore space segmentation in shale rock
Simple greyvalue
thresholding
segmentation
leads to artifacts.
Empty pores
Filled pores
Empty and filled
pores cannot be
clearly separated
in the BSE image
alone.
Chamber SE2 detector
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas
Pore space segmentation in shale rock
Simple greyvalue
thresholding
segmentation
leads to artifacts.
Empty pores
Filled pores
Empty and filled
pores cannot be
clearly separated
in the SE image
alone.
Inlens EsB detector
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas
Pore space segmentation in shale rock
Empty pores from
combined SE+BSE
image
Filled pores from
combined SE+BSE
image
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Precise separation of filled and
empty pores by combination of SE
and BSE images
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas
Tomography of shale rock
3D imaging of pores
in organic matter
One slice from the EsB image stack.
Organic regions can be identified by
their grey value.
One slice from the SE image stack.
Nanometer sized pores can be clearly
identified.
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Crossbeam application in Oil & Gas
Tomography of shale rock
Volume: 5.7 x 3.7 x 3.9 µm3
Voxel size 3 x 3 x 5 nm3
770 slices
Acquisition time 10 h
Segmentation calculated by
combining the BSE and SE
data.
Gold: Organic fraction
Blue: Pores
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Surface
[µm2]
Volume
[µm3]
Total
114.06
80.03
Organic
85.90
2.82
3.5
Pores
50.14
2.93
3.7
Volume
fraction
[%]
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