Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Surface inspection tool and surface inspection method
- Patent Title (中): 表面检查工具和表面检查方法
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Application No.: US12353515Application Date: 2009-01-14
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Publication No.: US07884948B2Publication Date: 2011-02-08
- Inventor: Yuji Miyoshi , Tomohiro Funakoshi
- Applicant: Yuji Miyoshi , Tomohiro Funakoshi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JP2008-008204 20080117
- Main IPC: G01N21/00
- IPC: G01N21/00 ; G01B11/30

Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a surface inspection tool in which a flat inspection range capable of measuring surface roughness of a wafer with patterns with high accuracy and in a nondestructive manner can be searched without visual search. In order to solve the object, in a surface inspection tool 110 which measures scattering light intensity of scattering light generated by irradiated irradiation light in association with a measurement coordinate on a wafer 200 with patterns and inspects the surface roughness of the wafer 200, the surface inspection tool includes a controller 250 which extracts measurement coordinate of the measured scattering light intensity that is equal to or more than a lower limit threshold L, sets an inspection range 406 of the surface roughness inspection in a partial layout 405a of a part of the whole layout 401 of the pattern corresponding to the periphery of the extracted measurement coordinate, and obtains the surface roughness in the inspection range 406.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090185178A1 SURFACE INSPECTION TOOL AND SURFACE INSPECTION METHOD Public/Granted day:2009-07-23
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