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Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 06, 2020
Applicant:

Sumco Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Keiichiro Mori, Saga, JP;

Takahiro Nagasawa, Saga, JP;

Assignee:

SUMCO CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/95 (2006.01); G01N 21/956 (2006.01); H01L 21/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/9501 (2013.01); G01N 21/95684 (2013.01); H01L 22/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

The method includes detecting a COP in a surface of a reference wafer with a laser surface inspection apparatus to be calibrated and an apparatus for calibration that obtains an X coordinate position and a Y coordinate position of the COP; determining a COP that is detected as the same COP with a determination criterion that a positional difference between a detected position obtained by the laser surface inspection apparatus to be calibrated and a detected position obtained by the apparatus for calibration on the reference wafer surface is within a threshold range; and calibrating the coordinate position identification accuracy of the laser surface inspection apparatus to be calibrated by adopting the X and Y coordinate positions obtained by the apparatus for calibration as true values of the X and Y coordinate positions.


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