材料分析的角色與認知(Role of Materials Analysis)

材料分析是現代材料科學與工程的一環，在歐美日等工業先進國家的大公司中不可或缺的一部分，而且通常擁有高階人力，不過在以製造業為強項的華人科學工程世界，材料分析的角色被許多高階主管忽略，因為它不是直接生產獲利的單位；但是如果考慮因正確材料分析而省下的成本，材料分析是一賺錢的單位。一直到45奈米製程後，華人主導的半導體廠的工程高階主管才醒悟電子顯微鏡材料分析的重要性。

Materials analysis is one of subgroups of science and engineering of materials, it is an important unit with high level human resources in big manufacturing companies in developed countries in American, Europe, and Japan. it does catch same attention as the others two in industry companies run by Chinese, especially in Mainland China and Taiwan, due to MA does not make products which can be traded directly. The importance of MA by electron microscopes in saving money for R&D and production had been usually neglected by high level engineering managers in semiconductor companies coordinated by Chinese until the 45 nm node process.

專業博士執行TEM分析時，TEM試片內蘊含的有用訊息會被系統性地分析與收集，而非只是進行制式的資料收集，例如: (1)傾轉試片至正極軸(exact zone)方向，(2)拍攝一些不同倍率的影像，(3)攝取某一區域性的EDS能譜影像。試片中一些有用的材料相關訊息經常在這些制式的分析中浪費掉。

A Ph.D can carefully extract all useful data out of a specimen in a TEM analysis. Well trained operators are very skillful at operating TEM, but not familiar with all functions in a TEM and all related materials information inside the specimen. They only take high magnification BF images, HRTEM images at Si[110] zone, and some sets of EDS map as told. From time to time, some useful data beyond those images and elemental maps passed away from the fingers in these routine jobs.