Abstract:
A method for processing a workpiece and an associated processing chamber (fig. 10) and analytic instrument. A layer of a material such as a low-K dielectric is applied to a workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer. During the application, and/or before or during subsequent processing, a property of the layer is measured by steps including exciting a portion of the layer with incident light and monitoring light such as Raman scattered light that is emitted from that portion of the layer in response to the incident light, via a probehead (fig. 20) that may be inside or outside the chamber housing. The analytic instrument includes the probehead and two sources of excitation light at two different wavelengths.
Abstract:
An emissivity compensating non-contact system for measuring the temperature of a semiconductor wafer (24). The system includes a semiconductor wafer emissivity compensation station (10) for measuring the reflectivity of the wafer (24) at discrete wavelengths to yield wafer emissivity in specific wavelength bands. The system further includes a measurement probe (13) which is optically coupled to a semiconductor process chamber (12). The probe (13) senses wafer self-emission using one or more optical detectors (40) and a light modulator (42). A background temperature determining mechanism (44) independently senses the temperature of a source (46) of background radiation. Finally, a mechanism (16) calculates the temperature of the semiconductor wafer based on reflectivity and self-emission of the wafer and background temperature.
Abstract:
A method for processing a workpiece and an associated processing chamber and analytic instrument. A layer of a material such as a low-K dielectric is applied to a workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer. During the application, and/or before or during subsequent processing, a property of the layer is measured by steps including exciting a portion of the layer with incident light and monitoring light such as Raman scattered light that is emitted from that portion of the layer in response to the incident light, via a probehead that may be inside or outside the chamber housing. The analytic instrument includes the probehead and two sources of excitation light at two different wavelengths.