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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2002
Shoaib Hasan Zaidi, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Gangadhara S. Mathad, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Infineon Technologies AG, , DE;
Abstract
A method of measuring the rate of etching of trenches on a substrate using interferometry is provided. The method comprises transmitting onto the substrate incident electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength above the wavelength at which the trenches act as waveguides for the radiation; collecting reflected electromagnetic radiation from the substrate; detecting a repetitive pattern of maximum intensities and minimum intensities of the reflected electromagnetic radiation during the etching; and determining the rate of etching based upon the wavelength of the incident electromagnetic radiation and the time period of the pattern.