Electricity: measuring and testing – Measuring – testing – or sensing electricity – per se – With rotor
Patent
1977-09-14
1979-06-12
Rolinec, Rudolph V.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Measuring, testing, or sensing electricity, per se
With rotor
318662, 324 61R, 324130, G01R 3102, G01R 2726, G01R 3500
Patent
active
041581717
ABSTRACT:
A noncontact gauge for edge detecting of semiconductor wafers in a test rig which indexes between circuits in the semiconductor wafer to provide functional tests upon them. The noncontact gauge includes a capacitive probe having an elongated finger that is bent into position a few thousands of an inch above the wafer when positioned for circuit tests in order to detect whether the circuit test system, in indexing from circuit to circuit in the row and column matrix of integrated circuit chips in the wafer, has moved to one edge or the other of the water. The edge detection system operates with conventional wafer test systems which raise and lower the wafer between tests to index from one integrated circuit to the next in the wafer matrix. When the wafer is in the down position, the circuitry, which includes an automatic compensation system, changes modes to calibrate the edge detector circuit for a predetermined capacitance representative of capacitance sensed by the finger of the probe when the wafer is moved out of proximity. Additionally, the circuitry and in particular the energization for the capacitive probe, is de-energized for a portion of the period when the wafer is in position and a particular integrated circuit being tested in order to eliminate interference between the probe excitation and the check-out circuitry.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3706919 (1972-12-01), Abbe
patent: 3711774 (1973-01-01), Bohler
patent: 3778710 (1973-12-01), Snook
Abbe Robert C.
Poduje Noel S.
ADE Corporation
Karlsen Ernest F.
Rolinec Rudolph V.
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