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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2000
Geoffrey Ryding, Manchester, MA (US);
Theodore H. Smick, Essex, MA (US);
John Ruffell, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Marvin Farley, Ipswich, MA (US);
Peter Rose, Rockport, MA (US);
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A back scattered ion receiver is mounted on the process chamber of an ion implanter to receive beam ions back scattered from a wafer mounted on the wafer holder in the chamber. Minima in the intensity of back scattered ions as the wafer on the holder is moved relative to the beam direction, can be used to obtain an accurate calibration of the true beam direction. Beam direction error can then be compensated for when operating holder tilt and twist mechanisms so as to bring a process wafer accurately into the required orientation relative to the true beam. If the crystallographic alignment and orientation of process wafers has been precharacterised, this data can be used to control the wafer holder to align process wafers crystallographically to the process beam.