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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2021
Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ion Technology Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Aki Ninomiya, Ehime, JP;
Takanori Yagita, Ehime, JP;
Takao Morita, Ehime, JP;
Sayumi Hirose, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an ion implanter including a beamline unit that transports an ion beam, an implantation processing chamber in which an implantation process of irradiating a wafer with an ion beam is performed, an illumination device that performs irradiation with illumination light in a direction intersecting with a transport direction of the ion beam in at least one of the beamline unit and the implantation processing chamber, an imaging device that generates a captured image captured by imaging a space through which the illumination light passes, and a control device that detects a particle which scatters the illumination light, based on the captured image.