Vion Plasma Focused Ion Beam
The FEI Vion™ Plasma Focused Ion Beam System (PFIB) adds significantly more capacity to your lab, with best-in-class milling and imaging performance in a single, easy-to-use instrument. By incorporating plasma ion source technology, the Vion PFIB delivers increased throughput over conventional gallium FIB instruments-with speeds more than 20x faster for site-specific cross-sectioning and large area milling, as well as sample preparation. With both excellent milling precision and high-resolution imaging at low beam currents, the Vion PFIB delivers the speed, accuracy and high contrast images essential for a wide range of process control, failure analysis or materials research applications.
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Vion PFIB for Materials Science
Especially well-suited for metals, composites and coatings, the Vion PFIB supports a range of materials characterization, failure analysis and sample preparation applications.
- Create site-specific cross sections quickly while directly imaging samples for real-time monitoring
- Achieve greater milling speed without sacrificing quality for large area and repetitive milling projects, as well as for low sputter rate materials like steel
- Perform fast, site-specific micromachining of structures and surfaces for dynamic compression or tensile testing.
- Prepare high quality, site-specific surfaces for Electron Back Scattered Diffraction analysis Prepare specimens for other imaging and characterization techniques like SEM and TEM
- Gain sub-30 nm image resolution for quick identification and metrology of thin layers and structures.
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Vion PFIB for Electronics
High Throughput 3D Packaging Analysis
The Vion plasma FIB is an instrument capable of highly precise high-speed cutting and milling. It has the ability to selectively mill areas of interest. In addition, the PFIB can selectively deposit patterned conductors and insulators.
By combining high-speed milling with precise control, the system can be used in several ways for manufacturing of IC's, such as:
- * Failure analysis of bumps, wire bonds, TSVs, and stacked die
- * Surgically remove package and material to enable failure analysis and fault isolate on buried die
- * For process monitoring and development at package level
- * Defect analysis of packaged parts and MEMS devices