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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device manufacture management system which allows not only the processing quality for each process but the number of finally obtained normal articles of semiconductor devices which users order to be estimated for each process. SOLUTION: This semiconductor device manufacture management system comprises manufacturing devices 11a-11c which are located at a semiconductor manufacture center C and manufacture chips, in-line measuring instruments 12a-12c for outputting measured data by lots, a database 2 for storing producing method data by the lots, the measured data, step specifications corresponding to the measurement data, estimated yield, lot feed date and time, step scheduled date, actual completion date by the steps, and completion scheduled date data of the chips step by step, making them correspond to the lot numbers of the chips, and a server 1 having an estimated yield arithmetic section 1a for calculating the estimated yield based on the specifications and measurement data, and a manufacture management section 1b for performing the manufacture management of the chips using respective data which users input and the estimated yield. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a method for measuring current, capable of measuring minute current which flows in a measurement sample such as a semiconductor substrate or the like under a probe irradiation such as an electron beam or the like, over a wide frequency band with low noises. SOLUTION: The current measuring apparatus which has a means for measuring the current flowing in the measurement sample 4 when the measurement sample 4 is irradiated with a probe such as the electron beam 12 or the like, is equipped with a switched capacitor current amplifier circuit 8 as an amplifier circuit for amplifying the current flowing in the measurement sample 4. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an instrument for measuring a resistance capable of measuring properly an effective resistance value of a conductive member in discharge of an electric charge charged in a protection object protected from static electricity. SOLUTION: A prescribed capacity of capacitor 204 is connected between an electrode 100 and a prescribed node (grounding). The electrode 100 is fixed onto an instrument body. The instrument main body is provided with a surface electrometer 201, an arithmetic processing part 202, a display part 203, the capacitor 204, a voltage source 205, and a switch 206. The switch 206 is closed and the capacitor 204 is charged preliminarily by the voltage source 205, when measuring the resistance of the measured object. Then, the switch 206 is opened, and the electrode 100 is brought into contact with the measuring object to discharge the capacitor 204. A voltage of the electrode 100 is measured therein by the surface electrometer 201. A time constant of the measured object is acquired based on a voltage measured result therein, and the time constant is converted into the resistance value of the measured object to be output. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inline film quality evaluation method and device and method for evaluating a semiconductor device by which the electric film quality of an insulating film forming the semiconductor device can be accurately evaluated. SOLUTION: The semiconductor evaluation device is provided with an electron beam generating means (101 or the like), an electron beam converging means (103 or the like), an electron beam irradiation position control means (112 or the like) for controlling the irradiation position of a converged electron beam, current measuring means (113, 116, etc.) for measuring the substrate current of the semiconductor device, a synchronizing signal generating means (115) for synchronizing a timing between the generation of an electron beam and the measurement of current, an irradiation changing means for changing the amount of irradiation of electron beam, a measurement result recording means (121) for recording the measurement result obtained by the current measuring means as a time function, an evaluation processing part (120) for evaluating film quality on the basis of a relationship between current and time indicated by the measurement result, and an indicating means (122) for indicating an evaluation result. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a charge quantity measuring device which measures the charge quantity appearing by being induced by an electric field without preparing a sample. SOLUTION: A metal plate 70 having a prescribed capacity is mounted through an insulator 60 on a casing 10 composing a device body. A surface electrometer 20, an operation part 30 or the like are stored in the casing 10, and the surface electrometer 20 is arranged so as to face to the metal plate 70. When the metal plate 70 is exposed to an external electric field, the charge is induced on the metal plate 70 by the electric field, and the electric potential of the metal plate 70 is stabilized at the electric potential corresponding to the charge quantity. The electric potential is measured by the surface electrometer 20, and the charge quantity is operated from the measured value by the operation part 30. A shielding part 80 is mounted slidably on the casing 10, and the external electric field exerting an influence on the electric potential of the metal plate 70 is shielded when initializing the electric potential of the metal plate 70. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device for evaluating an electrostatic discharge damage preventing material capable of judging accurately the propriety as a constitutive material for an object capable of evading effectively an electronic equipment from electrostatic discharge damage. SOLUTION: This method/device has a voltage-to-current characteristic measuring processing step (step S10) for impressing a plurality of voltage values to the evaluated material to measure a current flowing in the evaluated material in every of the plurality of voltage values, as to the evaluated material that is the constitutive material for the object used for evading the damage, of a semiconductor device or the electronic equipment, caused by static electricity, a processing step (step S20) for determining the presence or absence of a portion indicating nonlinearity in a measured result of the step S10, and a processing step (step S30) for measuring a charged quantity of the evaluated material. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an evaluation method of a semiconductor device, which can measure quickly and statistically the dimensions of each part formed in a semiconductor wafer. SOLUTION: Parallel electron beams ESW passing the aperture of an electron gun arranged in a measurement device are made to radiate in the shape of shower on the surface of a semiconductor wafer, and substrate current Ik is generated with this radiation. In the radiation region of the parallel electron beams ESW, a plurality of resist patterns REG1(1)-REG(4) which correspond to a plurality of gate electrodes in which variation of dimensions may be generated are contained, the variation of each dimension of the plurality of resist patterns is reflected on the substrate current Ik. As a result, dimension of each part of the resist patterns REG can be evaluated statistically by measuring the substrate current Ik. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To further improve technology for detecting substrate current generated by irradiation of an electron beam to nondestructively inspect an internal state of a semiconductor device or a detailed shape of a contact hole. SOLUTION: The sample 5 is irradiated with parallel electron beam 2, and the current flowing through a sample 5 is measured by an ammeter 9. Acceleration voltage of electron beam 2 is changed, and the measurement is repeated. Information related to a depth-direction structure of the sample 5 is found from difference of a current value based on difference of a transmittance of the electron beam 2 to the sample 5 by difference of the acceleration voltage, in a data processor 10. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a monitoring device of human body potential and a human body potential monitoring method, capable of discharging the charge accumulated on a human body, measuring the surface potential of the human body, and issuing a warning, when a ground line for discharging the charge of the human body is cut or a connection failure thereof occurs. SOLUTION: This monitoring device of human body potential has a ground plate 11, arranged on a wrist strap 10 for discharging the charge accumulated on the human body through the ground line; a monitor plate 12 arranged on the wrist strap 10; a human body potential measuring circuit part 20 for measuring the human body potential with an electrostatic field sensor connected to the monitor plate 12; and an alarm generating circuit 31 for comparing an output signal from the human body potential measuring circuit part 20 with a prescribed reference value, detecting the loss in the conduction path to the ground line of the ground plate 11, and issuing an alarm. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device evaluation element realizing process evaluation in the way of fabrication process in a short time even in case of a micro semiconductor device. SOLUTION: The device evaluation element is provided with an alignment mark for performing alignment by means of an electron beam or light, and a semiconductor device evaluation element having an electron beam receiving region is arranged at a position separated by a predetermined distance from the alignment mark. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI