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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2001
Louis N. Koppel, Redwood City, CA (US);
Charles Schmelz, Redwood City, CA (US);
Therma-Wave, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A detector assembly is introduced that provides shielding of irradiation vulnerable regions of an X-ray detector against directly impinging and scattered X-rays. A shielding unit has a primary aperture to shape an X-ray beam reflected from a test area of a work piece such that the shaped beam directly impinges an X-ray sensing area of the detector. A secondary aperture shields off X-rays scattering off along the edges of the primary aperture. In the preferred embodiment, the shielding unit is a monolithic structure. An area between primary and secondary aperture is laterally recessed to prevent a portion of scattered X-rays from being deflected onto the sensing area.