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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2013
Applicant:
Globalfoundries Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Inventors:
Assignee:
GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/95 (2006.01); G01N 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/9501 (2013.01); G01N 23/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of the detection of particle contamination on a semiconductor wafer is provides which includes examining an area of the semiconductor wafer by a metrology system comprising a scatterometry or ellipsometry/reflectometry tool to obtain measured metrology data, comparing the measured metrology data with reference metrology data and determining the presence of particle contamination in the examined area of the semiconductor wafer based on the comparison of the measured metrology data with the reference metrology data.