• Optics and Precision Engineering
  • Vol. 30, Issue 10, 1181 (2022)
Yijie LI, Jun XIAO, Yifang CHEN*, Xujie TONG, and Chengyang MU
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  • Nanolithography and Application Research Group, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai200433, China
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    DOI: 10.37188/OPE.20223010.1181 Cite this Article
    Yijie LI, Jun XIAO, Yifang CHEN, Xujie TONG, Chengyang MU. Grating X-ray collimator supported by Si3N4 membrane with large aspect ratio written directly by electron beam[J]. Optics and Precision Engineering, 2022, 30(10): 1181 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The objective of this study was to develop a new X-ray collimator. Electron beam lithography (EBL) technology was coupled with electroplating and wet chemical etching technology to fabricate gold micron gratings involving a large area and high aspect ratio on a suspended silicon nitride membrane. The exposure dose in the field splicing area was adjusted to solve the large area EBL problem. The grating line collapse in high-aspect ratio and high-density photoresist templates was overcome by using a reinforced structure. The thick photoresist spin-coated fracture on the 300-nm Si3N4 membrane was prevented by keeping an extremely thin layer of silicon (25 nm thick) under the thin Si3N4 membrane; therefore, improving the development process. The results demonstrated that the gold gratings with a 2-μm period, 5.5 aspect ratio, and 400-μm by 1000-μm area can modulate the 8-keV energy X-rays. The fabricated gold gratings can be used as detector collimators in line-parallel X-ray tomography systems or as source collimators in area-parallel X-ray tomography systems to improve the imaging speed.
    Yijie LI, Jun XIAO, Yifang CHEN, Xujie TONG, Chengyang MU. Grating X-ray collimator supported by Si3N4 membrane with large aspect ratio written directly by electron beam[J]. Optics and Precision Engineering, 2022, 30(10): 1181
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