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Optical detection of deeply subwavelength nanoparticles for silicon metrology

Sofronov et al., 2021

Document ID
12190377103217787087
Author
Sofronov A
Afinogenov B
Medvedev A
Shorokhov A
Riabko M
Polonsky S
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Physical Review Applied

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We report on experimental detection of 10 nm Si nanoparticles on Si surface using spatial modulation microscopy. We show that a simple optical layout with a galvo-mirror allows reliable detection of 9× 10 nm Si nanocylinders with signal-to-noise ratio 4.6 when the …
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