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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:
Oct. 03, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 26, 2015
Applicant:

Kla-tencor Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);

Inventors:

Christophe Wouters, Balen, BE;

Steven Boeykens, Boeykens, BE;

Carl Smets, Haasrode, BE;

Assignee:

KLA-Tencor Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01); G01N 21/88 (2006.01); G01N 21/95 (2006.01); G01N 21/958 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/6489 (2013.01); G01N 21/8806 (2013.01); G01N 21/9501 (2013.01); G01N 21/958 (2013.01); G01N 2201/02 (2013.01); G01N 2201/061 (2013.01); G01N 2201/062 (2013.01); G01N 2201/06113 (2013.01); G01N 2201/06193 (2013.01);
Abstract

An object carrier, a system and a method is disclosed for the back light inspection of transparent or semitransparent objects. The carrier has a carrier base layer with photo luminescent properties which carries the transparent or semitransparent object on top of the layer. The transparent or semitransparent object could be a wafer and the object carrier could be a wafer chuck. At least one light source being arranged above the object carrier such that excitation light emitted from the at least one light source is directed through the transparent or semitransparent object to the layer with photo luminescent properties. The light returned from the layer with photo luminescent properties is collected by an objective and registered by a sensor.


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