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.
Abstract:
A method of determining the thickness map of a film (14) overlying a substrate (14). This method includes illuminating (10) the film simultaneously from different angles and analyzing spectral intensity of the radiation reflected by each point on the film (14). The analysis is effected by collecting reflected radiation from the film (14), passing the radiation through an interferometer (16) which outputs modulated radiation corresponding to a predetermined set of linear combinations of the spectral intensity of the radiation emitted from each pixel, simultaneously and separately scanning optical path differences generated in the interferometer (16) for each pixel, focusing the radiation outputted from the interferometer (16) on a detector array, and processing the output of the detector array to determine the spectral intensity of each pixel thereof to obtain a spectral intensity distribution. Finally, the method includes further processing the spectral intensity distribution to determine the spatial distribution of the thickness of the film (16).
Abstract:
A method for remote scenes classification comprising the steps of (a) preparing a reference template for classification of the remote scenes via (i) classifying a set of reference scenes via a conventional classification technique for obtaining a set of preclassified reference scenes; (ii) using a first spectral imager for measuring a spectral cube of the preclassified reference scenes; (iii) employing a principal component analysis for extracting the spectral cube for decorrelated spectral data characterizing the reference scenes; and (iv) using at least a part of the decorrelated spectral data for the preparation of the reference template for remote scenes classification; (b) using a second spectral imager for measuring a spectral cube of analyzed remote scenes, such that a spectrum of each pixel in the remote scenes is obtained; (c) employing a decorrelation statistical method for extracting decorrelated spectral data characterizing the pixels; and (d) comparing at least a part of the decorrelated spectral data extracted from the pixels of the remote scenes with the reference template.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for analyzing an optical image of a scene to determine the spectral intensity of each pixel thereof, by: collecting incident light from the scene (20); scanning the incident light (22); passing the scanned light through an interferometer (24) which outputs modulated light corresponding to a predetermined set of linear combinations of the spectral intensity of the light emitted from each pixel; focussing the light outputted from the interferometer on a detector array (26), and processing the output of the detector array (28) to determine the spectral intensity of each pixel thereof.
Abstract:
A method and hardware for chromosome classification by decorrelation statistical analysis to provide color (spectral) karyotypes and to detect chromosomal aberrations.
Abstract:
A spectral imaging method for simultaneous detection of multiple fluorophores aimed at detecting and analyzing fluorescent in situ hybridizations employing numerous chromosome paints and/or loci specific probes each labeled with a different fluorophore or a combination of fluorophores for color karyotyping, and at multicolor chromosome banding, wherein each chromosome acquires a specifying banding pattern, which pattern is established using groups of chromosome fragments labeled with various fluorophores or combinations of fluorophores.
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:
A method for spatial registration and spectral correction for interferometer based spectral imaging which can be used to obtain spectral images of a moving object, the method comprising the steps of (a) using an interferometer based spectral imager for acquiring spatial and spectral information of the moving object; and (b) correcting the spatial and spectral information for movements of the moving object via a spatial registration and spectral correction procedures for obtaining corrected spatial and spectral information.
Abstract:
A spectral imaging method for detecting and analyzing fluorescent in situ hybridizations (fig. 5) employing numerous chromosome paints (fig. 9) and/or loci specific probes each labeled with a different fluorophore or a combination of fluorophores, the method is highly sensitive both in spatial and spectral resolutions (fig. 6) and is capable of simultaneous detection of dozens of fluorophores or combinations of fluorophores (fig. 7). The method of the present invention can be used for the detection of fluorescently painted complete sets of chromosomes and/or multiple loci from a species such as human (fig. 10).