Luxtron Corporation

Richard E Howard

Herbert E Litvak

Russell E Lewis

Techniques of monitoring and controlling removal or forming of layers of material, such as employed in the manufacture of flat panel displays and integrated circuit wafers. Examples of material removal include the development of a photoresist layer and etching of layers of other material according to a pattern across the surface of the layer. The material removal process is terminated in response to detecting when breakthrough occurs in a preselected number of individual regions across the surface of the layer. A measure of uniformity of processing across the layer surface is obtained from monitoring removal of material in such individual surface regions, and can be used to control the process to improve such uniformity.

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Pleasanton, CA, United States of America

Richard E Howard