Ion implanter and particle detection method
AssigneeSumitomo Heavy Industries Ion Technology Co., Ltd.
InventorsAki Ninomiya, Takanori Yagita, Takao Morita, Sayumi Hirose
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Abstract
There is provided an ion implanter including a beamline unit that transports an ion beam, an implantation processing chamber in which an implantation process of irradiating a wafer with an ion beam is performed, an illumination device that performs irradiation with illumination light in a direction intersecting with a transport direction of the ion beam in at least one of the beamline unit and the implantation processing chamber, an imaging device that generates a captured image captured by imaging a space through which the illumination light passes, and a control device that detects a particle which scatters the illumination light, based on the captured image.
Claims20
An ion implanter comprising:
- a beamline unit that transports an ion beam;
- an implantation processing chamber in which implantation processing is performed to irradiate a wafer with the ion beam;
- an illumination device that performs irradiation with illumination light in a direction intersecting with a transport direction of the ion beam in at least one of the beamline unit and the implantation processing chamber;
- an imaging device that generates a captured image captured by imaging a space through which the illumination light passes;
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- a control device that detects a particle which scatters the illumination light, based on the captured image.
A particle detection method comprising:
- performing irradiation with illumination light in a direction intersecting with a transport direction of an ion beam,
- generating a captured image captured by imaging a space through which the illumination light passes, and
- detecting a particle which scatters the illumination light, based on the captured image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.