SEMICONDUCTOR MEASUREMENT APPARATUS
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230400404A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-14

    申请号:US18154990

    申请日:2023-01-16

    CPC classification number: G01N21/21 G01B11/24 G01B2210/56

    Abstract: A semiconductor measurement apparatus includes an illumination unit including a light source and at least one illumination polarization element, a light receiving unit including at least one light-receiving polarization element disposed on a path of light reflected by a sample, and an image sensor positioned to receive light passing through the at least one light-receiving polarization element and configured to output an original image, and a control unit configured to determine, by processing the original image, a selected critical dimension among critical dimensions of a structure included in a region of the sample. The control unit is configured to obtain a plurality of sample images by selecting regions of the original image in which a peak due to interference appears, to determine a plurality of elements included in a Mueller matrix using the plurality of sample images, and to determine the selected critical dimension based on the plurality of elements.

    SEMICONDUCTOR MEASUREMENT APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20250012556A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-09

    申请号:US18403801

    申请日:2024-01-04

    Abstract: A semiconductor measurement apparatus includes lighting unit; a light receiving unit; and a control unit configured to: generate a prediction equation representing the original image, where the prediction equation is based on a plurality of elements of a Mueller matrix, approximate each of the plurality of elements of the Mueller matrix to a polynomial including bases of a Zernike polynomial and coefficients, generate optimization coefficients based on a sum of the coefficients and a difference between the prediction equation and the original image, determine whether an optimization condition is satisfied based on the optimization coefficients and a minimum value, and select a dimension based on the optimization coefficients and the bases when the optimization condition is satisfied.

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