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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:
May. 26, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 26, 2018
Applicant:

Hitachi High-technologies Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Hiroki Kawada, Tokyo, JP;

Takahiro Kawasaki, Tokyo, JP;

Junichi Kakuta, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/28 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01); H01L 21/66 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G03F 7/20 (2006.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/28 (2013.01); G03F 7/7065 (2013.01); G03F 7/70616 (2013.01); G06T 7/0004 (2013.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01); H01L 21/67288 (2013.01); H01L 22/12 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10061 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30148 (2013.01); H01J 2237/223 (2013.01); H01J 2237/24578 (2013.01); H01J 2237/2817 (2013.01);
Abstract

A pattern measuring method and a pattern measuring apparatus that efficiently prevent a measurement error inherent to a device that performs beam scanning in a specific direction such as a scanning electron microscope are provided. The invention is directed to a pattern measuring method and a pattern measuring apparatus in which a first curve with respect to an edge of one side and a second curve with respect to an edge of the other side are obtained by calculating a first power spectral density with respect to the edge of one side of a pattern and a second power spectral density with respect to the edge of the other side of the pattern based upon a signal that is obtained when a charged particle beam is scanned in a direction intersecting the edge of the pattern; a difference value between the first curve and the second curve is calculated; and one of the first curve and the second curve is corrected by using the difference value.


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