Janah & Associates
Monitoring substrate processing by detecting reflectively diffracted light
A substrate is placed in a process zone and an energized process gas is maintained in the process zone to process the substrate. A light beam is reflectively diffracted from a pattern of features of the substrate being processed, the reflected beam is monitored, and a signal is generated in relation to the monitored beam. During processing, a width of the features of the substrate can change. The generated signal is evaluated to detect the occurrence of a change in the width of the features.
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David S. L. Wei John P. Michael S.
Mui Liu Holland Barnes