Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a defect inspection method and device solving the problem in which it is difficult to detect a defect and calculate a dimension thereof in a short time at high sensitivity, without thermally damaging a sample by a conventional technique.SOLUTION: A defect inspection method comprises: lighting a surface area of a sample as an object to be inspected under a predetermined lighting condition (lighting step); translating and rotating the sample (sample scanning step); dividing each of a plurality of scattered light beams scattered in a plurality of directions from the lighting area of the sample, into a plurality of pixels to detect the divided light beam, for each of a scanning direction at the sample scanning step and a direction approximately perpendicular to the scanning direction (scattered light beam detection step); and adding a scattered light beam scattered in an approximately same direction from an approximately same area of the sample to each of the plurality of scattered light beams detected at the scattered light beam detection step, determining the presence or absence of a defect based on the scattered light beam added, and calculating the dimension of the determined defect using at least one of a plurality of scattered light beams corresponding to the determined defect (processing step).
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for inspecting pattern defects provided with an illumination optical system and a detecting optical system wherein the quantity of detected light of an image sensor does not change depending on the place by the change of the incident angle of an illumination light and the thickness change of a thin film formed on a specimen surface, and an unevenness in brightness is not produced on the detected image. SOLUTION: This apparatus for inspecting pattern defects is provided with a laser light source 3 eradiating the illumination light on a specimen, a coherent reducing optical system for reducing the coherence of the laser, a converging means for converging the laser light to the pupil position of an object lens 11, and a means for detecting the reflected light from a circuit pattern formed on a substrate from a position above the substrate. An illuminance light impinged onto the object substrate to be inspected is partially adjusted by matching the illumination light impinged on the specimen 1 with the irradiation form of the laser light converged at the pupil position of the object lens by the converging means. Therefore, the fluctuation in the intensity of the reflected light due to the thickness difference of the specimen surface can be reduced, an unevenness in brightness of the detected image can be suppressed and a minute defect can be detected. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
An object inspection apparatus includes a terahertz wave supplying unit for generating a terahertz wave and moving a path of the terahertz wave according to time so that the terahertz wave is supplied to an object to be inspected, a focusing lens located between the terahertz wave supplying unit and the object to be inspected to focus the terahertz wave supplied by the terahertz wave supplying unit, a rotating plate having a plate shape and including a plurality of the focusing lenses with different distances from the center thereof, the rotating plate rotating in the circumferential direction so that one of the focusing lenses is located at a path of the terahertz wave according to the path movement of the terahertz wave, and a terahertz wave detecting unit for collecting and detecting a terahertz wave incident to the object to be inspected.
Abstract:
A method for measuring a defect on a surface of an object (4501), comprising: directing a first light beam in a first plane of incidence toward a first position on the object (4501); directing a second light beam in a second plane of incidence toward a second position on the object (4501), wherein the angle between the first plane of incidence and the second plane of incidence is zero and wherein the first light beam is directed in a circumferential direction (4504) and the second light beam is directed in a radial direction of said object (4501); detecting a first scattered light beam; and detecting a second scattered light beam; wherein the first scattered light beam comprises scattered light intensity from the first position and the second scattered light beam comprises scattered light intensity from the second position, the method further comprising a step of comparing the first scattered light beam and the second scattered light beam to determine a first aspect ratio of a defect on the surface of the object (4501).
Abstract:
A double-sided optical inspection system is presented which may detect and classify particles, pits and scratches on thin film disks or wafers in a single scan of the surface. In one embodiment, the invention uses a pair of orthogonally oriented laser beams, one in the radial and one in the circumferential direction on both surfaces of the wafer or thin film disk. The scattered light from radial and circumferential beams is separated via their polarization or by the use of a dichroic mirror together with two different laser wavelengths.
Abstract:
A specific small area of a crystal sample (11) is scanned by a laser beam in a spiral pattern (2a, 2b). The laser beam is reflected different amounts for different beam positions to produce a reflectance pattern indicative of crystallographic orientation. The reflected beam radiation may be determined with a photodetector (12) and the reflectance pattern may be interpreted with circuitry (13) which also controls steering of the beam.