As part of an effort to develop high resolution microtomography for enginee
red structures, a two-level copper integrated circuit interconnect was imag
ed using 1.83 keV x rays at 14 angles employing a full-field Fresnel zone p
late microscope. A major requirement for high resolution microtomography is
the accurate registration of the reference axes in each of the many views
needed for a reconstruction. A reconstruction with 100 nm resolution would
require registration accuracy of 30 nm or better. This work demonstrates th
at even images that have strong interference fringes can be used to obtain
accurate fiducials through the use of Radon transforms. We show that we are
able to locate the coordinates of the rectilinear circuit patterns to 28 n
m. The procedure is validated by agreement between an x-ray parallax measur
ement of 1.41 +/-0.17 mum and a measurement of 1.58 +/-0.08 mum from a scan
ning electron microscope image of a cross section. (C) 2001 American Instit
ute of Physics.