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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an X-Y stage system capable of reducing a length-measurement error due to air fluctuation by including a length-measurement light path tube mechanism for adequately covering a length-measurement light path of a laser interferometer in its X-Y stage having a position length measurement part moving in X/Y directions by the laser interferometer. SOLUTION: The X-Y stage system includes: the stage moving in the X/Y directions; the laser interferometer for conducting the length measurement of a position of the stage; and the length-measurement light path tube mechanism having a fixed tube which is disposed on the laser interferometer side of the length-measurement light path and fixed to the laser interferometer so as to cover at least a portion of the length-measurement light path between the stage and the laser interferometer, and having a movable tube which is disposed on the stage side of the length-measurement light path so as to cover at least a portion of the length-measurement light path and moves along with a motion of the stage, wherein one end of the fixed tube or the movable tube is inserted into one end of the other tube. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image sampling device and sample inspection device for preventing disturbance, especially for blocking radiation such as cosmic rays. SOLUTION: The image sampling device and sample inspection device include a light source for irradiating a sample having a pattern, a sensor for receiving the light radiated from the light source to the sample and sampling a pattern image, an optical path changing body that is arranged in front of the sensor and bends an optical path, and a blocking body that surrounds the optical path and blocks the radiation coming into the sensor. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and a method for generating a corrected image obtained by appropriately correcting the image of an inspection reference pattern to appropriately inspect a pattern image to be inspected in a sample to be inspected. SOLUTION: The correction pattern image generation device for inspecting a pattern comprises: a first pattern compositing section for compositing an assist pattern image and a pattern image to be inspected for generating a pattern image to be inspected having an assist pattern; an assist pattern shift processing section; a second pattern compositing section for generating an inspection reference pattern image having an assist pattern by compositing the shifted assist pattern image and an inspection reference pattern image; a model generation section for generating a position shift model by using the pattern image to be inspected having the assist pattern and the inspection reference pattern image having the assist pattern; and a correction pattern image operation section for correcting the inspection reference pattern image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pattern inspection apparatus having high reliability and higher resistance to vibration. SOLUTION: The pattern inspection apparatus 200 includes: a fundamental wave light source (1) 310 emitting a fundamental wave (1) having a wavelength of 1,064 nm; a fundamental wave light source (2) 320 emitting a fundamental wave (2) at a wavelength of 1,562 nm; a wavelength conversion section 330 generating deep UV rays having a wavelength of 198 nm on the basis of 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 mounting the wavelength conversion section 330 and inspecting a pattern of an inspection target sample by using the deep UV rays generated by the wavelength conversion section 330 as illumination light. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image flaw inspection device for determining an image flaw with high precision even in the case where difference occurs in a part of a region, and to provide an image flaw inspection method. SOLUTION: The flaw inspection method of a pattern for comparing an image signal photoelectrically converted from a certain object to be inspected with a reference image to inspect it includes the first image correction step S41 of correcting the reference image to obtain a first corrected image, the first flaw inspection step S42 of detecting a flaw using the image signal and the first corrected image to calculate flaw coordinates, the weighted image calculation step S43 of obtaining a weighted image from the image signal, the first corrected image and the flaw coordinates, the second image correction step S44 of recorrecting the first corrected image using the image signal, the first corrected image and the weighted image to obtain a second corrected image, and the second flaw detection step S45 for detecting the flaw using the image signal and the second corrected image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain the substantial beam coupling of a plurality of coherent light sources without being affected by variation in the secular degradation of beam quality for every coherent light source, and to obtain illumination light rays having sufficient light quantity. SOLUTION: The illumination device 200 is provided with: a plurality of coherent light sources 202, 204 each generating coherent light for a plurality of coherent light beams; a plurality of concave mirrors 232, 245 reflecting each coherent light beam with the reflective faces disposed as freely movable; a convex mirror 240 to reflect on one face the plurality of coherent beams reflected from the plurality of concave mirrors 232, 234; and a collimate lens 242 guiding the plurality of coherent beams reflected by the convex mirror 240 to the coaxial direction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device which generates a corrected image by suitably correcting an image of a sample to be inspected. SOLUTION: A correction pattern image generating unit 200 comprises a means 210 of generating simultaneous equations, based on a first predictive model for image data in arbitrary coordinates; a means 212 of computing coefficients of the simultaneous equations; a means 217 of computing an (x)-directional component element sum and a (y)-directional component element sum of the coefficients; a means 218 of computing (x)-directional component coefficient and (y)-directional component coefficient of the simultaneous equations, based on a second predictive model from the amount of a positional shift between both images; a means 220 of putting together an element sum of a one-directional component, based on the first predictive model and a coefficient of the other directional component, based on the second predictive model; and a means 222 of using the composite coefficient obtained as a coefficient of the simultaneous equations, based on the first predictive model to compute corrected pattern image data in the arbitrary coordinates. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide high-speed sample inspection and to shorten the defect inspection processing time, without having to depend on the number of a plurality of layers of a development pattern. SOLUTION: The sample inspection device includes a measurement pattern data acquisition device which acquires measurement pattern data, by detecting transmitted light or reflected light from a sample to be inspected; a development pattern data generation device which generates development pattern data of a plurality of layers from design data on the sample to be inspected; a composite pattern data generation device which extracts pixels of one layer of the development pattern data of the plurality of layers, while regarding as an upper layer development pattern data corresponding to a small area of pixels of the transmitted light or reflected light, and generates composite pattern data corresponding to the measurement pattern data; a layer identification data generating device which generates layer identification data indicative of a layer of pixel-extracted development pattern data of the composite pattern data; a reference pattern data generating device which generates reference pattern data, similar to the measurement pattern data from the composite pattern data and layer identification data; and a comparison device which compares the measured pattern data with the reference pattern data. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a uniform illumination light by reducing interference in the illumination device that uses coherent light. SOLUTION: The illumination device irradiating an objective body with unitized lines of light flux comprises a first dividing part for dividing coherent light into a plurality of lines of light flux by reflecting; first detour optical paths, in which the divided optical flux passes through having optical path difference longer than or equal to the coherent distance; an optical path difference formation material, arranged with at least a part of one first detour optical path making optical path difference larger than or equal to the coherence distance between the first detour optical path that is not arranged with the optical path difference forming material; and a first composite part with the unified plurality of lines of optical flux passing through the first detour optical path. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the occurrence of interference fringes in a pattern projector and a pattern inspection device using laser light. SOLUTION: The pattern projector and the pattern inspection device include a laser generator for generating the laser light, a mask having a pattern, an optical system provided between the laser generator and the mask for irradiating the laser light onto the mask and projecting the pattern onto an object, a rotational phase plate provided in the optical system, a driver for rotating the phase plate, and a shock-absorbing medium for preventing vibration from propagating between the phase plate and the optical system. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT