Lattice strains around a platelet oxygen precipitate in Si
wafer is studied by energy filtering convergent-beam electron
diffraction (CBED) and calculations based on the finite element
method (FEM). Local lattice strains are measured from CBED patterns
obtained with a probe size less than 2 nm in a specimen thicker
than 450 nm. Strains measured are compressive along a direction
normal to a plate of the precipitate and tensile along a direction
parallel to the plate. Two-dimensional stress fields near the
precipitate are obtained with FEM computer analyses by fitting
the measured strains. It appears that shear stresses are
concentrated at the end of the precipitate edge and the maximum
shear stress at an interface between the precipitate and the
Si-matrix is 1.9 GPa. It is demonstrated that a combination
of the energy filtering CBED and FEM is very useful for the
study of local strains near interfaces in semiconductor devices,
in particular for the study of stress fields that are too steep
for application of the conventional CBED technique.