Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for measuring film thickness
- Patent Title (中): 用于测量膜厚度的装置和方法
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Application No.: US12108235Application Date: 2008-04-23
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Publication No.: US07646489B2Publication Date: 2010-01-12
- Inventor: Kazufumi Nishida , Shigeyuki Kakuta
- Applicant: Kazufumi Nishida , Shigeyuki Kakuta
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JP2007-115488 20070425
- Main IPC: G01B9/02
- IPC: G01B9/02 ; G01J3/45 ; G01B11/02 ; G01B11/28

Abstract:
A film thickness measuring apparatus of the present invention includes: a light source that emits white light to be irradiated onto a multilayer thin film; a spectroscope that disperses reflected light obtained as a result of irradiating the white light onto the multilayer thin film in order to obtain reflectance spectrums; and a computation section, said computation section including: a setting section that sets a plurality of wavelength ranges for the reflectance spectrums; a first conversion section that obtains wavenumber range reflectance spectrums by re-sequencing, among the reflectance spectrums, reflectance spectrums in the plurality of wavelength ranges set in said setting section at equal intervals, respectively; a second conversion section that converts the wavenumber range reflectance spectrums in the plurality of wavelength ranges obtained in said first conversion section into power spectrums, respectively; and a calculation section that obtains a film thickness of the multilayer thin film based on the power spectrums.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080266550A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING FILM THICKNESS Public/Granted day:2008-10-30
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