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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2013
Applicant:
Rudolph Technologies, Inc., Flanders, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Wei Zhou, St. Paul, MN (US);
Assignee:
Rudolph Technologies, Inc., Wilmington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/88 (2006.01); G01N 21/95 (2006.01); G01N 21/956 (2006.01); G01B 11/02 (2006.01); G01B 11/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/8806 (2013.01); G01B 11/02 (2013.01); G01B 11/06 (2013.01); G01N 21/9501 (2013.01); G01N 21/95607 (2013.01); G01N 2021/95615 (2013.01); G01N 2201/02 (2013.01); G01N 2201/062 (2013.01); G01N 2201/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
An inspection system is disclosed. An optical assembly establishes an optical path between a light source and a detector. The optical assembly has a relatively large amount of longitudinal chromatic aberration, so that light at a first wavelength focuses on one region of a substrate in the optical path, while light at a second wavelength simultaneously focuses on another region of the substrate. The system can operate in a calibration mode to determine one or more wavelengths of light corresponding to regions of interest in the substrate and in an imaging mode to image regions of interest in the substrate.