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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2006
Bin-ming Benjamin Tsai, Saratoga, CA (US);
Yung-ho Chuang, Cupertino, CA (US);
J. Joseph Armstrong, Milpitas, CA (US);
David Lee Brown, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Bin-Ming Benjamin Tsai, Saratoga, CA (US);
Yung-Ho Chuang, Cupertino, CA (US);
J. Joseph Armstrong, Milpitas, CA (US);
David Lee Brown, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
KLA-Tencor Technologies Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for inspecting a specimen, such as a semiconductor wafer, including illuminating at least a portion of the specimen using an excimer source using at least one relatively intense wavelength from the source, detecting radiation received from the illuminated portion of the specimen, analyzing the detected radiation for potential defects present in the specimen portion.