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Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 19, 2019
Applicant:

Kla Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);

Inventor:

Chunsheng Huang, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

KLA Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/24 (2006.01); H01L 21/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/2441 (2013.01); H01L 22/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

An interferometer system may include a stage assembly configured to receive and secure a sample, an illumination source configured to generate an illumination beam, a half-wave plate, one or more shearing prisms to shear the illumination beam into two beamlets along a shearing direction, a reference flat disposed proximate to the sample, a detector assembly, and a controller. The controller may cause the illumination source to generate an illumination beam and sweep the illumination beam across a plurality of wavelengths, and determine both a surface height measurement and a surface slope measurement of the sample based on the illumination received by the detector assembly.


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