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公开(公告)号:US10520741B2
公开(公告)日:2019-12-31
申请号:US15651968
申请日:2017-07-17
Applicant: KLA-Tencor Corporation
Inventor: Anatoly Shchemelinin , Ilya Bezel , Matthew Panzer , Eugene Shifrin
IPC: G02B27/10
Abstract: A system for separating plasma pumping light and collected broadband light includes a pump source configured to generate pumping illumination including at least a first wavelength, a gas containment element for containing a volume of gas, a collector configured to focus the pumping illumination from the pumping source into the volume of gas to generate a plasma within the volume of gas, wherein the plasma emits broadband radiation including at least a second wavelength and an illumination separation prism element positioned between a reflective surface of the collector and the pump source and arranged to spatially separate the pumping illumination including the first wavelength and the emitted broadband radiation including at least a second wavelength emitted from the plasma.
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公开(公告)号:US20190378684A1
公开(公告)日:2019-12-12
申请号:US16141150
申请日:2018-09-25
Applicant: KLA-Tencor Corporation
Inventor: Ilya Bezel , Eugene Shifrin , Gildardo Delgado , Rudy F. Garcia
IPC: H01J37/26 , H01J37/08 , H01J37/317 , H01J37/28 , H01J37/304
Abstract: An imaging system utilizing atomic atoms is provided. The system may include a neutral atom source configured to generate a beam of neutral atoms. The system may also include an ionizer configured to collect neutral atoms scattered from the surface of a sample. The ionizer may also be configured to ionize the collected neutral atoms. The system may also include a selector configured to receive ions from the ionizer and selectively filter received ions. The system may also include one or more optical elements configured to direct selected ions to a detector. The detector may be configured to generate one or more images of the surface of the sample based on the received ions.
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公开(公告)号:US20190235390A1
公开(公告)日:2019-08-01
申请号:US16165799
申请日:2018-10-19
Applicant: KLA-Tencor Corporation
Inventor: Wei Zhao , Ilya Bezel
Abstract: An apparatus for generating filtered light may include a broadband illumination source configured to generate broadband illumination and a total internal reflection (TIR) filter formed from a material at least partially transparent to the broadband illumination. The TIR filter may include one or more input faces oriented to receive the broadband illumination. The TIR filter may further be oriented to reflect wavelengths of the broadband illumination beam below a selected cutoff wavelength on one or more filtering faces as filtered broadband illumination and provide the filtered broadband illumination beam through one or more output faces. The cutoff wavelength may further be selected based on total internal reflection on the one or more faces.
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公开(公告)号:US10257918B2
公开(公告)日:2019-04-09
申请号:US15274956
申请日:2016-09-23
Applicant: KLA-Tencor Corporation
Inventor: Anant Chimmalgi , Sebaek Oh , Joshua Wittenberg , Lauren Wilson , Rahul Yadav , Ilya Bezel , Michael Navone , Anatoly Shchemelinin
Abstract: An illumination pump source is disclosed. The illumination pump source includes a set of power sources configured to generate a set of laser beams, with at least some of the set of laser beams configured to include illumination having different wavelengths. The illumination pump source also includes an optical fiber. The illumination pump source also includes one or more optical elements, the one or more optical elements configured to couple the illumination from at least some of the laser beams to one or more regions of the optical fiber.
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公开(公告)号:US10244613B2
公开(公告)日:2019-03-26
申请号:US15280073
申请日:2016-09-29
Applicant: KLA-Tencor Corporation
Inventor: Anant Chimmalgi , Rudolf Brunner , Anatoly Shchemelinin , Ilya Bezel , Erik Kim , Rajeev Patil
Abstract: An illumination source for igniting and sustaining a plasma in a plasma lamp of a laser-sustained plasma (LSP) broadband source includes one or more ignition lasers configured to ignite the plasma within a gas contained within the plasma lamp. The illumination sources also include one or more sustaining lasers configured to sustain the plasma. The illumination sources include a delivery optical fiber, one or more optical elements configured to selectively optically couple an output of the one or more ignition lasers, and an output of the one or more sustaining lasers to the delivery optical fiber.
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公开(公告)号:US10217625B2
公开(公告)日:2019-02-26
申请号:US15064294
申请日:2016-03-08
Applicant: KLA-Tencor Corporation
Inventor: Ilya Bezel , Anatoly Shchemelinin , Eugene Shifrin , Matthew Panzer
Abstract: An optical system for generating broadband light via light-sustained plasma formation includes a chamber, an illumination source, a set of focusing optics, and a set of collection optics. The chamber is configured to contain a buffer material in a first phase and a plasma-forming material in a second phase. The illumination source generates continuous-wave pump illumination. The set of focusing optics focuses the continuous-wave pump illumination through the buffer material to an interface between the buffer material and the plasma-forming material in order to generate a plasma by excitation of at least the plasma-forming material. The set of collection optics receives broadband radiation emanated from the plasma.
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公开(公告)号:US10203247B2
公开(公告)日:2019-02-12
申请号:US15369560
申请日:2016-12-05
Applicant: KLA-Tencor Corporation
Inventor: Gregory R. Brady , Andrei V. Shchegrov , Lawrence D. Rotter , Derrick A. Shaughnessy , Anatoly Shchemelinin , Ilya Bezel , Muzammil A. Arain , Anatoly A. Vasiliev , James Andrew Allen , Oleg Shulepov , Andrew V. Hill , Ohad Bachar , Moshe Markowitz , Yaron Ish-Shalom , Ilan Sela , Amnon Manassen , Alexander Svizher , Maxim Khokhlov , Avi Abramov , Oleg Tsibulevsky , Daniel Kandel , Mark Ghinovker
IPC: H01J65/04 , G01J3/02 , G01J3/10 , F21V13/08 , F21V13/00 , F21V13/12 , G02B6/35 , G02B6/293 , G01J3/12
Abstract: A system for providing illumination to a measurement head for optical metrology is configured to combine illumination beams from a plurality of illumination sources to deliver illumination at one or more selected wavelengths to the measurement head. The intensity and/or spatial coherence of illumination delivered to the measurement head is controlled. Illumination at one or more selected wavelengths is delivered from a broadband illumination source configured for providing illumination at a continuous range of wavelengths.
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公开(公告)号:US10139283B2
公开(公告)日:2018-11-27
申请号:US15360722
申请日:2016-11-23
Applicant: KLA-Tencor Corporation
Inventor: Anatoly Shchemelinin , Ilya Bezel , Kenneth P. Gross
Abstract: Methods and systems for performing non-contact temperature measurements of optical elements with long wavelength infrared light are described herein. The optical elements under measurement exhibit low emissivity to long wavelength infrared light and are often highly reflective or highly transmissive to long wavelength infrared light. In one aspect, a material coating having high emissivity, low reflectivity, and low transmission at long wavelength IR wavelengths is disposed over selected portions of one or more optical elements of a metrology or inspection system. The locations of the material coating are outside the direct optical path of the primary measurement light employed by the metrology or inspection system to perform measurements of a specimen. Temperature measurements of the front and back surfaces of an IR-transparent optical element are performed with a single IR camera. Temperature measurements are performed through multiple optical elements in an optical path of a primary measurement beam.
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公开(公告)号:US20180172240A1
公开(公告)日:2018-06-21
申请号:US15895868
申请日:2018-02-13
Applicant: KLA-Tencor Corporation
Inventor: Ilya Bezel , Anatoly Shchemelinin , Eugene Shifrin , Matthew Panzer , Matthew Derstine , Jincheng Wang , Anant Chimmalgi , Rajeev Patil , Rudolf Brunner
IPC: F21V9/06 , H01J61/52 , H01J61/40 , H01J61/35 , H01J61/34 , H01J61/16 , H01J61/14 , H01J61/12 , H01J65/04 , H01J61/20
CPC classification number: F21V9/06 , H01J61/125 , H01J61/14 , H01J61/16 , H01J61/20 , H01J61/34 , H01J61/35 , H01J61/40 , H01J61/523 , H01J65/04
Abstract: A plasma cell for use in a laser-sustained plasma light source includes a plasma bulb configured to contain a gas suitable for generating a plasma. The plasma bulb is transparent to light from a pump laser, wherein the plasma bulb is transparent to at least a portion of a collectable spectral region of illumination emitted by the plasma. The plasma bulb of the plasma cell is configured to filter short wavelength radiation, such as VUV radiation, emitted by the plasma sustained within the bulb in order to keep the short wavelength radiation from impinging on the interior surface of the bulb.
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公开(公告)号:US09615439B2
公开(公告)日:2017-04-04
申请号:US14989348
申请日:2016-01-06
Applicant: KLA-Tencor Corporation
Inventor: Ilya Bezel , Anatoly Shchemelinin , Kenneth P. Gross , Richard Solarz , Lauren Wilson , Rahul Yadav , Joshua Wittenberg , Anant Chimmalgi , Xiumei Liu , Brooke Bruguier
Abstract: A system for forming a laser-sustained plasma includes a gas containment element, an illumination source configured to generate pump illumination, and a collector element. The gas containment element is configured to contain a volume of a gas mixture. The collector element is configured to focus the pump illumination from the pumping source into the volume of the gas mixture contained within the gas containment element in order to generate a plasma within the volume of the gas mixture that emits broadband radiation. The gas mixture filters one or more selected wavelengths of radiation emitted by the plasma.
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