Electric heating – Heating devices – With power supply and voltage or current regulation or...
Patent
1997-03-07
1998-07-21
Paschall, Mark H.
Electric heating
Heating devices
With power supply and voltage or current regulation or...
219502, 21912183, 219506, 374161, 374129, H05B 102
Patent
active
057838046
ABSTRACT:
A nondestructive product level calibration method which is based on reflectance of intensity of UV and visible light that is measured from the top surface of a semiconductor wafer in a RTP closed loop process control environment in which the temperature of the wafer is regulated as a function of reflectivity of radiation at a preselected wavelength from the top surface of the wafer. In the method, sheet resistance of the wafer is measured as a function of the intensity of the UV and IR light directed at the wafer over a predetermined temperature and time range. Then, the reflectance intensity off wafer is measured to develop a model of the top surface. The reflectance model will indicate a wavelength where the reflectance is the greatest. Next, the wafer is subjected to UV radiation at the most sensitive wavelength and the reflectance is plotted against intensity of heat treatment. Then, notice is taken that the reflectance detected directly corresponds to a ratio of temperature over time measured in the first step. Thus, the reflectance at a particular wavelength of UV light corresponds to a specific and discrete temperature so that the degree of heat treatment to which the wafer has been exposed is known.
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Burke Robert James
Paduano Paul A.
Thakur Randhir P. S.
Zahorik Russell C.
Micro)n Technology, Inc.
Paschall Mark H.
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