Optics: measuring and testing – By configuration comparison – With comparison to master – desired shape – or reference voltage
Patent
1988-02-19
1989-10-31
McGraw, Vincent P.
Optics: measuring and testing
By configuration comparison
With comparison to master, desired shape, or reference voltage
356386, 356446, G01B 1130
Patent
active
048773263
ABSTRACT:
Substrate inspection apparatus and methods, and illumination apparatus. The inspection apparatus and method includes memory for storing the desired features of the surface of the substrate, focussed illuminator for substantially uniformly illuminating a region of the surface of the substrate to be inspected. Additionally there is a sensor for imaging the region of the substrate illuminated by the illuminator, and a comparator responsive to the memory and sensor for comparing the imaged region of the substrate with the stored desired features of the substrate. The illumination apparatus is designed to provide substantially uniform focussed illumination along a narrow linear region. This apparatus includes first, second and third reflectors elliptically cylindrical in shape, each with its long axis substantially parallel to the long axes of each of the others. Fourth and fifth reflectors are also included with each being flat and mounted parallel to each other and at opposite ends of each of said first, second and third reflectors, and first, second and third linear light sources each mounted parallel to a corresponding one of said first, second and third reflectors with each of the light sources mounted so that it is at the first focus of the corresponding reflector and the illuminated linear region is at the second focus of each of the first, second and third reflectors.
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Bell William
Chadwick Curt H.
Fein Michael E.
Greene John D.
Harvey David J.
Jones Allston J.
KLA Instruments Corporation
McGraw Vincent P.
Turner S. A.
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