Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and system for inspecting indirect bandgap semiconductor structure
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Application No.: US14989341Application Date: 2016-01-06
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Publication No.: US09909991B2Publication Date: 2018-03-06
- Inventor: Thorsten Trupke , Robert Andrew Bardos
- Applicant: BT IMAGING PTY LIMITED
- Applicant Address: AU Sydney NSW
- Assignee: BT IMAGING PTY LIMITED
- Current Assignee: BT IMAGING PTY LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: AU Sydney NSW
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- Priority: AU2005905598 20051011
- Main IPC: G01J3/40
- IPC: G01J3/40 ; G01N21/64 ; H01L21/66 ; G01N21/88 ; F21Y115/10

Abstract:
Methods (600) and systems (100) for inspecting an indirect bandgap semiconductor structure (140) are described. A light source (110) generates light (612) suitable for inducing photoluminescence in the indirect bandgap semiconductor structure (140). A short-pass filter unit (114) reduces long-wavelength light of the generated light above a specified emission peak. A collimator (112) collimates (616) the light. A large area of the indirect bandgap semiconductor structure (140) is substantially uniformly and simultaneously illuminated (618) with the collimated, short-pass filtered light. An image capture device (130) captures (620) images of photoluminescence simultaneously induced by the substantially uniform, simultaneous illumination incident across the large area for the indirect bandgap semiconductor structure. The photoluminescence images are image processed (622) to quantify spatially resolved specified electronic properties of the indirect bandgap semiconductor structure (140) using the spatial variation of the photoluminescence induced in the large area.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160116412A1 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INSPECTING INDIRECT BANDGAP SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE Public/Granted day:2016-04-28
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