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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 21, 2010
Applicants:

Masanori Gunji, Hitachinaka, JP;

Tomonari Morioka, Hitachinaka, JP;

Hiroshi Akiyama, Hitachinaka, JP;

Hideki Fukushima, Hitachinaka, JP;

Inventors:

Masanori Gunji, Hitachinaka, JP;

Tomonari Morioka, Hitachinaka, JP;

Hiroshi Akiyama, Hitachinaka, JP;

Hideki Fukushima, Hitachinaka, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/956 (2006.01); G01N 21/94 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/95623 (2013.01); G01N 21/94 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided are a contamination inspection method and a contamination inspection device for highly accurately detecting a defect in a wafer, a liquid crystal substrate and media or the like including patterns, for example, a semiconductor device or the like. The first aspect of the present invention is a contamination inspection device comprising: an irradiation optical system for irradiating lights on the inspection target substrate; and a spatial filter for shading diffracted lights form the inspection target substrate. Herein, the spatial filter comprises: a plurality of light shading materials; a control member for changing at least one of parameters selected from a shape, an angle and an interval with respect to the light shading material, and a control unit for controlling the control members.


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