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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device, method and program for inspecting a sample with appropriate accuracy. SOLUTION: The sample inspection device compares a plurality of partial optical image data in an identical, patterned sample to be inspected. The sample inspection device includes an optical image data acquisition section 150 for acquiring the optical image data of the sample to be inspected; and a comparison circuit 108 for comparing the plurality of partial, optical image data. In the comparison circuit 108, when region image data generated based on information on a region pattern, indicating a prescribed region are input and the plurality of partial, optical image data are compared, determination conditions are changed by referring to the region image data, thus the presence of defects on the sample is determined. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve resolution in the TDI direction of an optical pattern image when inputting the image of a pattern using a storage type (TDI) sensor. SOLUTION: An image inputting device 30 has characteristically important sections including the TDI sensor 10 fixed and placed onto a support substrate 31, a TDI sensor movement mechanism 32 for giving periodic position movement to the support substrate 31, and a TDI sensor movement control circuit 33 for controlling the sensor movement drive section 32. There are a TDI synchronous control circuit 18, a sensor drive circuit 19, a sensor output I/F 21, and an A/D conversion circuit 22. In this case, the TDI sensor 10 periodically moves in the TDI direction to cancel the deviation of the relative position of a stored charge transferred in the TDI direction of the TDI sensor 10. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract translation:要解决的问题:使用存储型(TDI)传感器输入图案的图像时,提高光学图案图像的TDI方向的分辨率。 解决方案:图像输入装置30具有固定并放置在支撑基板31上的TDI传感器10的特征性重要部分,用于给予支撑基板31周期性位置运动的TDI传感器运动机构32和TDI传感器运动 用于控制传感器移动驱动部分32的控制电路33.存在TDI同步控制电路18,传感器驱动电路19,传感器输出I / F 21和A / D转换电路22.在这种情况下,TDI 传感器10周期性地沿着TDI方向移动以消除在TDI传感器10的TDI方向上传送的存储电荷的相对位置的偏差。(C)2009年,JPO和INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an illumination optical device and a sample inspection device adjustable easily because of being constituted of a small number of components, using a far-ultraviolet light source having high illuminance and high illuminance uniformity on an irradiation surface. SOLUTION: The illumination optical device and the sample inspection device are characterized by being equipped respectively with the far-ultraviolet light source for emitting a far-ultraviolet ray; the first double-sided cylindrical lens entered by the far-ultraviolet ray, emitting the ray in the divided state into the first plurality of light fluxes, having a constitution wherein a cylindrical axis crosses orthogonally, and having each cylindrical lens array on both surfaces; the second double-sided cylindrical lens entered by the first plurality of light fluxes emitted from the first double-sided cylindrical lens, emitting the light fluxes as the second plurality of light fluxes after aligning each direction of the first plurality of light fluxes, having a constitution wherein a cylindrical axis crosses orthogonally, and having each cylindrical lens array on both surfaces; and a condenser lens entered by the second plurality of light fluxes, and piling the second plurality of light fluxes. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inspecting device which performs positioning of higher accuracy through operations, based on a smaller number of parameters. SOLUTION: The sample inspecting device as an embodiment of the present invention comprises an optical image acquiring unit 150, which acquires an optical image of a sample to be inspected which has a pattern formed; a reference circuit 112 which generates a reference image to be compared with the optical image; a least-squares method parameter arithmetic unit 370, which computes respective parameters by a method of least squares using a model expression including, as the respective parameters, quantities of parallel movement from positions, aligned loosely in pixel units, of the optical image and reference image; an enlargement/reduction error coefficient, a rotation error coefficient, a constant of a grayscale value, and an image intensity variation rate; a corrected image generating circuit 390 which generates a corrected image, by shifting positions of the reference image by quantities of position shifts from positions loosely aligned in pixel units on the basis of the respective parameters, and a comparison circuit 108 which compares the corrected image with the optical image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce an error due to an effect of a refractive index distribution and an error due to an effect of diffracted light. SOLUTION: A height detecting device 100 includes a lighting slit 210 having a first rectangular opening bored to pass illumination light 104, optical systems 200 and 222 which illuminate a surface of an object 101 with illumination light passed through the lighting slit 210 and images reflected light from the surface of the object 101, detection slits 230 and 240 which are installed before and behind an imaging point and have second opening parts bored so that widths of the rectangles may be shorter than the width of a lighting slit image and lengths may be longer than the length of the lighting slit image, light quantity sensors 252 and 254 which detect quantities of reflected light passed through the detection slits 230 and 240, and an arithmetic circuit 260 which computes the height of the surface of the object 101 on the basis of outputs of the light quantity sensors 252 and 254. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve pattern inspection accuracy for an inspection sample. SOLUTION: A pattern inspection device is provided with: an optical image acquiring unit to acquire the optical image of the pattern of an inspection sample; an alignment processing unit to carry out an alignment process including correction processing of the optical image by a reference image; and a comparing unit to compare optical images different from each other subjected to the alignment process. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image inspection device constituted so as to unite alignment and image correction using the image divided in a frequency region and based on effective image correction reduced in image deterioration and a set parameter. SOLUTION: The image inspection device for performing the comparative inspection of inspection reference image and an image to be inspected is equipped with an image dividing part for forming frequency-divided images divided to a plurality of frequency regions with respect to the inspection reference image and the image to be inspected, a model parameter identifying part for identifying a model parameter using the two-dimensional linear estimate model of the inspection reference image and the image to be inspected with respect to the respective frequency-divided images, a model image forming part for forming a model image based on the identified model parameter and a comparing processing part for performing the comparative inspection of the model image and the image to be inspected with respect to the respective frequency-divided images. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide image correction and pattern inspection similarly effective even for an extremely sparse pattern image to a dense pattern image in a pattern inspection device such as a reticle inspection device. SOLUTION: The invention provides an image correction device that is equipped with: a pattern cutting section to cut out a pattern as a paste pattern from each region of an inspection reference pattern image and an objective inspection pattern image where the pattern is present; a pattern pasting section to paste the paste pattern in an empty region where no pattern is present in each of the inspection reference pattern image and the objective inspection pattern image to produce a pasted inspection reference pattern image and a pasted objective inspection pattern image; a simultaneous equation generating section to generate a simultaneous equation from a linear prediction model on the pasted inspection reference pattern image and the pasted objective inspection pattern image; a parameter generating section to solve the simultaneous equation to obtain model parameters; and a corrected pattern image generating section to apply the linear prediction model using the model parameters on the pattern image to generate a corrected pattern image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pattern inspection apparatus which is more resistant to vibration and has high reliability. SOLUTION: The pattern inspection apparatus 200 is equipped with: a fundamental wave light source (1) 310 emitting a fundamental wave (1) having a wavelength of 1064 nm; a fundamental wave light source (2) 320 emitting a fundamental wave (2) having a wavelength of 1562 nm; a wavelength conversion section 330 generating a deep ultraviolet light having a wavelength of 198 nm based on the fundamental wave (1) and the fundamental wave (2); an optical fiber 342 for the fundamental wave (1); an optical fiber 344 for the fundamental wave (2); and a pattern inspection section 100 on which the wavelength conversion section 330 is mounted and which inspects a pattern of a sample to be inspected by using the deep ultraviolet light generated by the wavelength conversion section 330 as illuminating light. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide effective image correction capable of adapting automatically the density of a pattern image of an inspection objective sample. SOLUTION: This image correction device/pattern inspection device identifies a two-dimensional linear model from the pattern image, and conducts switching between a correction pattern image by a two-dimensional linear prediction model and an interpolation correction image by bi-three-dimensional interpolation, using an eccentric amount in a gravity center position of the identified two-dimensional linear model. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT