Optics: measuring and testing – Inspection of flaws or impurities – Having predetermined light transmission regions
Patent
1996-04-24
1998-02-10
Font, Frank G.
Optics: measuring and testing
Inspection of flaws or impurities
Having predetermined light transmission regions
356369, G01N 2100
Patent
active
057174857
ABSTRACT:
A foreign substance inspection apparatus having a good signal to noise ratio with optical detection accuracy capable of detecting infinitesimal foreign substances, comprising a lighting portion to irradiate with an S polarized laser light beam and having the optical axis parallel to the substrate to be inspected, a detecting portion having an optical axis located in a position set by rotating the optical axis of the lighting portion by 120.degree. to 160.degree. with the point of intersection of the optical axis of the lighting portion and the surface to be inspected as the center of rotation so as to have an angle made with the surface to be inspected of 45.degree. or smaller to detect the area irradiated from the lighting portion by detecting the S polarized component in the scattered component from the foreign substances existing on the surface to be inspected and converting the S polarized component photoelectrically to a signal, and a signal processing portion to detect a foreign substance based on the signal outputted from the detecting portion.
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Ito Masami
Nagasaki Tatsuo
Nishii Kanji
Shimono Ken
Takamoto Kenji
Font Frank G.
Matsushita Electric - Industrial Co., Ltd.
Smith Zandra V.
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