Film thickness measurement device
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNorikazu HOHSHI, Hidekazu SAKAGAMI, Narumi HARADA, Chiaki YAMAWAKI
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Abstract
Substrate aluminum detection means (33a) irradiates a substrate (11) before film formation with primary X-rays from a measurement head (23) and detects fluorescent X-rays generated from the substrate (11) by the measurement head (23) to detect an aluminum component contained in the substrate (11). When an aluminum film is formed on the substrate (11), aluminum film correction means (33b) corrects intensity of fluorescent X-rays detected from the aluminum film by the measurement head (23) based on a detection result of the substrate aluminum detection means (33a) to obtain thickness of the aluminum film.
Claims6
A film thickness measurement device, comprising:
- a base (1);
- a substrate stage (2) which is provided on the base (1) and on which a product substrate (10) having a film is placed;
- a gantry (4) that extends in a first direction (A) with respect to the substrate stage (2) and is installed in the base (1) so as to be movable in a second direction (B) with respect to the substrate stage (2);
- a slider (5) that is installed in the gantry (4) so as to be movable in the first direction (A);
- a measurement head (23) that is fixed to the slider (5) and irradiates a film (12) of the product substrate (10) placed on the substrate stage (2) with primary X-rays to detect fluorescent X-rays generated from the film (12);
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- analysis means (33) that obtains thickness of the film (12) from intensity of the fluorescent X-rays detected by the measurement head (23), wherein
- the analysis means (33) includes
- substrate aluminum detection means (33a) that irradiates a substrate (11) before film formation of the product substrate (10) with the primary X-rays from the measurement head (23) and detects fluorescent X-rays generated from the substrate (11) by the measurement head (23) to detect an aluminum component contained in the substrate (11), and
- aluminum film correction means (33b) that, when an aluminum film composed of aluminum is included in the film (12) of the product substrate (10), corrects intensity of the fluorescent X-rays detected from the aluminum film by the measurement head (23) based on a detection result of the substrate aluminum detection means (33a) to obtain thickness of the aluminum film.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.