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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2009
Valeriy V. Yashchuk, Richmond, CA (US);
Wayne R. Mckinney, Concord, CA (US);
Peter Z. Takacs, Riverhead, NY (US);
Valeriy V. Yashchuk, Richmond, CA (US);
Wayne R. McKinney, Concord, CA (US);
Peter Z. Takacs, Riverhead, NY (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC, Upton, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides for test surfaces and methods for calibration of surface profilometers, including interferometric and atomic force microscopes. Calibration is performed using a specially designed test surface, or the Binary Pseudo-random (BPR) grating (array). Utilizing the BPR grating (array) to measure the power spectral density (PSD) spectrum, the profilometer is calibrated by determining the instrumental modulation transfer function (IMTF).