Invention Publication
- Patent Title: MARK POSITION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM WRITING APPARATUS, AND MARK POSITION MEASUREMENT METHOD
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Application No.: US18638862Application Date: 2024-04-18
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Publication No.: US20240363307A1Publication Date: 2024-10-31
- Inventor: Hiroshi SATO
- Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Yokohama-shi
- Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Yokohama-shi
- Priority: JP 23071315 2023.04.25
- Main IPC: H01J37/304
- IPC: H01J37/304 ; G01B11/14 ; G01B11/26 ; H01J37/317

Abstract:
A mark-position-measurement-apparatus includes a stage with an object having plural marks thereon, a sensor including an irradiator irradiating beams to the object, and a photoreceiver receiving a reflected light from the object and outputting a height-position distribution of the object surface, a position-calculation-circuit to calculate, for each mark, a position of a mark-candidate-signal acquired in a scanned region, by using the height-position distribution, for each mark, obtained by scanning the beam over the plural marks to be intersected with one of the plural marks, a combination-generation-circuit to generate plural combinations by combining mark-candidate-signals selected from the plural marks when plural mark-candidate-signals are acquired, in a scanning direction, for at least one mark, and a selection-circuit to select a combination of mark-candidate-signals, being mark signals of the plural marks, from the plural combinations, by comparing, with a predetermined reference value, relative position information regarding mark-candidate-signals in the same combination.
Public/Granted literature
- US3129030A Grapnels for submarine cables Public/Granted day:1964-04-14
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