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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:
Sep. 04, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/166 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/166 ;
Abstract
Correlation formulae having predetermined forms (i.e., straight lines representing relationships between the surface roughness of the reflectance) are determined in advance between measurement values of the ultraviolet reflectance of the surfaces of respective sample epitaxial growth layers obtained by using an ultraviolet spectrophotometer at a wavelength of 200 nm and measured values of the surface roughness of the same samples by using an atomic force microscope. The surface roughness of an ensuing measurement object is determined by measuring only its ultraviolet reflectance and substituting a resulting measurement value into the correlation formulae.