WO2006066137A3 - System and method for inspecting a workpiece surface using polarization of scattered light - Google Patents

System and method for inspecting a workpiece surface using polarization of scattered light Download PDF

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WO2006066137A3
WO2006066137A3 PCT/US2005/045784 US2005045784W WO2006066137A3 WO 2006066137 A3 WO2006066137 A3 WO 2006066137A3 US 2005045784 W US2005045784 W US 2005045784W WO 2006066137 A3 WO2006066137 A3 WO 2006066137A3
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Ian Thomas Kohl
Songping Goa
Richard Earl Bills
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Abstract

A surface inspection system, as well as related components and methods, are provided. The surface inspection system includes a beam source subsystem, a beam scanning subsystem, a workpiece movement subsystem, an optical collection and detection subsystem, and a processing subsystem. The system features a variable polarization a polarizing relay assembly arranged to selectively permit the scattered light having a selected polarization orientation to pass along a detector optical axis to a light detection unit in the detection subsystem. They system also features a collector output width varying subsystem for varying the width of an output slit in response to changes in the location of the location scanned on the workpiece.
PCT/US2005/045784 2004-12-19 2005-12-17 System and method for inspecting a workpiece surface using polarization of scattered light WO2006066137A2 (en)

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PCT/US2005/045783 WO2006066136A2 (en) 2004-12-19 2005-12-17 System and method for inspecting a workpiece surface by analyzing scattered light in a back quartersphere region above the workpiece
PCT/US2005/045785 WO2006066138A2 (en) 2004-12-19 2005-12-17 System and method for controlling a beam source in a workpiece surface inspection system
PCT/US2005/045786 WO2006066139A2 (en) 2004-12-19 2005-12-17 System and method for inspecting a workpiece surface by analyzing scattered in a front quartersphere region above the workpiece
PCT/US2005/045930 WO2006066206A2 (en) 2004-12-19 2005-12-17 System and method for controlling light scattered from a workpiece surface in a surface inspection system
PCT/US2005/045782 WO2006066135A2 (en) 2004-12-19 2005-12-17 System and method for signal processing for a workpiece surface inspection
PCT/US2005/045929 WO2006066205A2 (en) 2004-12-19 2005-12-17 System and method for inspection of a workpiece surface using multiple scattered light collectors
PCT/US2005/046181 WO2006066255A2 (en) 2004-12-19 2005-12-17 System and method for inspecting a workpiece surface using surface structure spatial frequencies
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