Optical interference at the interfaces of a silicon-on-insulator structure has been used for rapid, nondestructive determination of the silicon and oxide layer thicknesses. The technique is useful for determining the layer thicknesses for wafers in which devices and circuits are subsequently fabricated, especially for very thin silicon films in which the device characteristics depend strongly on the silicon thickness.
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Kamins et al. (1986) studied this question.