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- Patent Title: Radiation-induced false count mitigation and detector cooling
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Application No.: US16170954Application Date: 2018-10-25
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Publication No.: US10690599B1Publication Date: 2020-06-23
- Inventor: Stephen Biellak , Tyler Trytko
- 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: Suiter Swantz pc llo
- Main IPC: G01N21/88
- IPC: G01N21/88 ; G01T1/24 ; G01N21/95

Abstract:
An inspection system with radiation-induced false count mitigation includes an illumination source configured to illuminate a sample and a liquid-cooling coincidence detector, which includes an illumination detector to detect illumination from the sample, a liquid-cooling device for regulating a temperature of the illumination detector via a liquid, and photodetectors to detect light generated in the liquid in response to particle radiation. The liquid-cooling coincidence detector may also include controllers to identify a set of illumination detection events based on an illumination signal received from the illumination detector, identify a set of radiation detection events based on radiation signals received from the photodetectors, compare the set of radiation detection events to the set of illumination detection events to identify a set of coincidence events, and exclude the set of coincidence events from the set of illumination detection events to generate a set of identified features on the sample.
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