IP Library Granted Patent US 8,154,717
Granted Patent B2
US 8,154,717 · App. 12/850,300 · Granted Apr 10, 2012

Optical apparatus for defect inspection

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Patent No.
US 8,154,717
App. No.
12/850,300
Granted
Apr 10, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical apparatus for defect inspection having an illuminating optical system for irradiating illumination light beams on the surface of a specimen to form a beam spot and a detection optical system for detecting a reflection light ray originating from the beam spot comprises a storage unit in which the position and size of a standard particle of known size on a specimen for correction are stored in advance, a correction processing section which, when the correction specimen is used as an inspection target, correlates a detected scattering light quantity from the standard particle with the known size of standard particle stored at a corresponding position in the storage unit to prepare a correlation between the scattering light quantity and a true value, and a signal processing section which, when an inspection wafer is used as an inspection target, converts a detected scattering light quantity into a defect dimension.

Claims (21)

1. An inspection apparatus which detects an anomaly of a substrate, the apparatus comprising:

an irradiation unit which irradiates the substrate with light;

a detection unit including a sensor which detects light from the irradiated substrate and outputs a detection signal;

a scanning unit which generates a scan motion between the light from the irradiation unit and the substrate;

a processing unit which changes output of the sensor as a function of scan direction of the scan motion, and acquires a size of the anomaly by using the changed output and correlation between a size of a standard object and information about light from said standard object.

2. The inspection apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:

the sensor includes a first channel and a second channel,

said second channel is arranged nearer a center of the sensor than the first channel, and

said processing unit changes output of said first channel by using output of said second channel.

3. A method for inspecting for an anomaly of a substrate, the method comprising steps of:

irradiating the substrate with light;

detecting light from the irradiated substrate with a sensor;

outputting a detection signal from the sensor;

generating a scan motion between the irradiating light and the substrate;

changing, by a computer, output of the sensor as a function of scan direction of the scan motion, and acquiring a size of the anomaly by using the changed output and correlation between a size of a standard object and information about light from said standard object.

4. The method of inspection according to claim 3 ,

wherein changing comprises changing a detection level of an output of a first channel of the sensor used by using an output of a second channel of the sensor.

5. The method of inspection according to claim 3 , wherein:

the sensor includes a first channel and a second channel,

said second channel is arranged nearer a center of the sensor than the first channel, and

the changing by the computer, comprises changing an output of said first channel by using an output of said second channel.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME AND ADDRESS Recorded Mar 30, 2020
From: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 052259/0227 →