摘要:
A communication node, which performs ad hoc communication by occupying at least one time slot and transmitting a data block to one or a plurality of other nodes via the occupied at least one time slot through broadcasting, comprises a determination unit that determines an occupation time slot to be occupied by an own node in a frame used for transmitting the data block, based on occupation state data, a data block generating unit that generates the data block storing, in a control field, control data containing new occupation state data obtained by updating the occupation state data based on an occupation state of the occupation time slot, the data block being to be transmitted by the own node through the broadcasting, and a transmission unit that transmits the data block generated through the broadcasting via the occupation time slot.
摘要:
A method and apparatus of detecting a defect by inspecting a specimen in which a surface of a specimen on which plural patterns are formed is illuminated with an elongated shape light flux from one of plural directions which are different in elevation angle by switching an optical path of the light flux emitted from an illuminating light source in accordance with a kind of defect to be detected. Plural optical images of the specimen illuminated by the elongated shape light flux are captured with plural image sensors installed in different elevation angle directions by changing an enlarging magnification in accordance with a density of the pattern formed on the sample in an area irradiated with the illuminating elongated shape light flux. A defect on the specimen is detected by processing the images captured by the plural image sensors.
摘要:
An inspection system includes: a facility that uses wide-band illumination light having different wavelengths and single-wavelength light to perform dark-field illumination on an object of inspection, which has the surface thereof coated with a transparent film, in a plurality of illuminating directions at a plurality of illuminating angles; a facility that detects light reflected or scattered from repetitive patterns and light reflected or scattered from non-repetitive patterns with the wavelengths thereof separated from each other; a facility that efficiently detects light reflected or scattered from a foreign matter or defect in the repetitive patterns or non-repetitive patterns or a foreign matter or defect on the surface of the transparent film; and a facility that removes light, which is diffracted by the repetitive patterns, from a diffracted light image of actual patterns or design data representing patterns. Consequently, a more microscopic defect can be detected stably.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for detecting defects are provided for detecting harmful defects or foreign matter with high sensitivity on an object to be inspected with a transparent film, such as an oxide film, by reducing noise due to a circuit pattern. The apparatus for detecting defects includes a stage part on which a substrate specimen is put and which is arbitrarily movable in each of the X-Y-Z-θ directions, an illumination system for irradiating the circuit pattern with light from an inclined direction, and an image-forming optical system for forming an image of an irradiated detection area on a detector from the upward and oblique directions. With this arrangement, diffracted light and scattered light caused on the circuit pattern through the illumination by the illumination system is collected. Furthermore, a spatial filter is provided on a Fourier transform surface for blocking the diffracted light from a linear part of the circuit pattern. The scattered and reflected light received by the detector from the specimen is converted into an electrical signal. The converted electrical signal of one chip is compared with that of the other adjacent chip. If these signals are not identical to each other, the foreign matter is determined to exist on the specimen in detection.
摘要:
An optical add-drop function part of an optical add-drop multiplexer has an output end of transmitted light signal in which an optical termination mechanism formed by an optical detector for detecting open of an optical fiber, an optical switch, and an optical terminator are mounted. Further, a reflection level calculation circuit, a reflection warning determination circuit, and an optical switch selection circuit are mounted to perform laser safety in the optical add-drop function part as well. The laser safety part in the optical add-drop function part is operated earlier than the laser safety part in an optical amplification function part.
摘要:
An apparatus for inspecting a substrate surface is provided, which includes illumination optics for irradiating the substrate surface linearly with rectilinearly polarized light from an oblique direction, detection optics for acquiring images of the substrate surface, each of the images being formed by the light scattered from the light-irradiated substrate surface, and means for comparing an image selected as an inspection image from the plurality of substrate surface images that the detection optics has acquired to detect defects, and another image selected from the plural images of the substrate surface as a reference image different from the inspection image; the illumination optics being formed with polarization control means for controlling a polarizing direction of the light according to a particular scanning direction of the substrate or a direction orthogonal to the scanning direction.
摘要:
According to one embodiment, a digital broadcast receiving/recording/reproducing apparatus has a receiving module which receives a broadcast signal of a program that is set to be recorded, a processing module which converts the broadcast signal received by the receiving module into digital picture and sound program data, a memory which records copy control information acquired from the broadcast signal received by the receiving module, a recording control module which encrypts the program data converted by the processing module and records the encrypted program data in a specified recording device, and a memory control module which encrypts the copy control information recorded in the memory and records the encrypted copy control information in the specified recording device and deletes the copy control information recorded in the memory after termination of the recording of the encrypted copy control information.
摘要:
The invention relates to a device production process for forming a circuit pattern on a substrate such as semiconductor device. To enable a stable inspection of a minute foreign particle and a pattern defect occurring in manufacture of a device at a high speed and with a high sensitivity, an object to be inspected on which a transparent film is formed, is irradiated with a beam which is emitted from an illuminator whose illumination direction and illumination angle are selected from a plurality of choices to be optimum, so that scattered reflected light from a minute foreign particle defect on the object or the transparent film is effectively detected by eliminating a noise from the pattern formed on the object, and a detection optical system is optimized by evaluating and adjusting, with an image forming performance checker, an image forming performance of the detection optical system included in an inspecting apparatus.
摘要:
A dispersion compensating fiber whose chromatic dispersion is positive and a negative dispersion compensating fiber whose chromatic dispersion is negative are prepared, and division-multiplexed optical signals, after being guided to either dispersion compensating fiber to once shift the whole wavelength band to positivity or negativity, are subjected to fine adjustment with a dispersion compensating fiber of a reverse sign.
摘要:
Making it possible to execute the detection of the particles floating inside a processing chamber with the use of an optical system including one observing window and one unit (An object of the present invention is, by using an optical system including one observing window and one unit, to make it possible to execute the detection of the particles floating inside a processing chamber.) Also, in order to be able to detect exceedingly feeble particle scattered-lights with a high-accuracy, when performing a desired thin-film forming or thin-film processing treatment toward a to-be-processed target inside the processing chamber, the following method is employed: First, the irradiation with a beam is executed into the processing chamber through the observing window. Here, the beam is P-polarized and is intensity-modulated with a frequency differing from an exciting source's frequency and its integer-multiples, and the observing window has an inclination that forms Brewster angle toward the P-polarized incident beam. Next, backward scattered-lights scattered by the particles inside the processing chamber are received and image-photographed at a detecting optical system through the above-described one and the same observing window. Moreover, the above-described frequency component and a wavelength component of the above-described intensity-modulated beam are detected out of the received signals. Finally, the detected components and the image-photographed image information are used so as to judge the number, the size, and the distribution of the particles.