Kla-tencor Technologies Corporation

Ibrahim Abdul-Halim

John Fielden

Ady Levy

Mehrdad Nikoonahad

Dan Wack

Kyle A Brown

Rodney C Smedt

Gary Bultman

Methods and systems for monitoring semiconductor fabrication processes are provided. A system may include a stage configured to support a specimen and coupled to a measurement device. The measurement device may include an illumination system and a detection system. The illumination system and the detection system may be configured such that the system may be configured to determine multiple properties of the specimen. For example, the system may be configured to determine multiple properties of a specimen including: but not limited to, critical dimension and overlay misregistration; defects and thin film characteristics; critical dimension and defects; critical dimension and thin film characteristics; critical dimension, thin film characteristics and defects; macro defects and micro defects; flatness, thin film characteristics and defects; overlay misregistration and flatness; an implant characteristic and defects; and adhesion and thickness. In this manner, a measurement device may perform multiple optical and/or non-optical metrology and/or inspection techniques.

Methods and systems for determining a critical dimension and overlay of a specimen

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Kfar Manda, Israel

Ibrahim Abdul-Halim