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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2000
Filed:
May. 10, 1996
Shunichi Matsumoto, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroaki Shishido, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A reticle inspecting apparatus for inspecting a reticle for defects has a transparent of translucent substrate, a circuit pattern formed on the front surface of the substrate, and a phase shifter formed of a light-transmissive film on the front surface of the substrate. In the apparatus, a detection optical system is disposed so as not to gather directly reflected light and directly transmitted light and so as to gather scattered light and diffracted light which has been scattered and diffracted, respectively, by the reticle. This detection optical system enables separation of the gathered light by direction of illumination using detectors and spatial filters disposed respectively on Fourier transform planes to intercept light diffracted by straight edges of the circuit pattern, so as to form images of gathered light on the detectors. A signal processing system having a signal processing unit calculates defects on the basis of the output signals of the detectors and displays the calculated data on a display.
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