Invention Grant
- Patent Title: All surface film metrology system
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Application No.: US15255605Application Date: 2016-09-02
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Publication No.: US10563973B2Publication Date: 2020-02-18
- Inventor: Shifang Li , Lena Nicolaides , Paul Horn , Richard Graetz
- Applicant: KLA-Tencor Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Milpitas
- Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
- Current Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Milpitas
- Agency: Hodgson Russ LLP
- Main IPC: G06T7/00
- IPC: G06T7/00 ; G01B11/06

Abstract:
A system is configured to perform metrology on a front surface, a back surface opposite the front surface, and/or an edge between the front surface and the back surface of a wafer. This can provide all wafer metrology and/or metrology of thin films on the back surface of the wafer. In an example, the thickness and/or optical properties of a thin film on a back surface of a wafer can be determined using a ratio of a greyscale image of a bright field light emerging from the back surface of the wafer under test to that of a reference wafer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170278236A1 ALL SURFACE FILM METROLOGY SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-09-28
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