Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Inspection device
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Application No.: US15758630Application Date: 2015-09-10
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Publication No.: US10672119B2Publication Date: 2020-06-02
- Inventor: Atsuko Yamaguchi , Masami Ikota , Kazuhisa Hasumi
- Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Miles & Stockbridge, P.C.
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/075720 WO 20150910
- International Announcement: WO2017/042932 WO 20170316
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06K9/48 ; H04N7/18 ; G06T7/00 ; G01N23/2251 ; H01L21/67 ; G03F1/44 ; G01N21/956 ; G03F7/20 ; G06T7/64 ; H01L21/66

Abstract:
In order to provide an inspection device capable of quantitatively evaluating a pattern related to a state of a manufacturing process or performance of an element, it is assumed that an inspection device includes an image analyzing unit that analyzes a top-down image of a sample in which columnar patterns are formed at a regular interval, in which an image analyzing unit 240 includes a calculation unit 243 that obtains a major axis, a minor axis, an eccentricity, and an angle formed by a major axis direction with an image horizontal axis direction of the approximated ellipse as a first index and a Cr calculation unit 248 that obtains a circumferential length of an outline of a columnar pattern on the sample and a value obtained by dividing a square of the circumferential length by a value obtained by multiplying an area surrounded by the outline and 4π as a second index.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180308228A1 INSPECTION DEVICE Public/Granted day:2018-10-25
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