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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2016
Applicant:

Kla-tencor Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);

Inventors:

Brian Duffy, San Jose, CA (US);

Amir Azordegan, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Christopher Sears, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

KLA-Tencor Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/28 (2006.01); H01J 37/244 (2006.01); H01J 37/147 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/28 (2013.01); H01J 37/147 (2013.01); H01J 37/244 (2013.01); H01J 2237/24495 (2013.01); H01J 2237/2801 (2013.01); H01J 2237/2817 (2013.01);
Abstract

A multi-beam inspection system includes one or more particle beam sources to generate two or more particle beams, a set of particle control elements configured to independently direct the two or more particle beams to a sample, one or more detectors positioned to receive particles emanating from the sample in response to the two or more particle beams, and a controller communicatively coupled to the one or more detectors. The controller includes one or more processors to generate two or more inspection datasets associated with the particles received by the one or more detectors.


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