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Number: 356/514
Name: Optics: measuring and testing > By light interference (e.g., interferometer) > For dimensional measurement > Contour or profile > By wavefront detection > Of highly reflective surface (e.g., mirror) > Planar surface
Description: Highly reflective surface having a physical characteristic of being confined to two dimensional space.


Patents under this class:
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Patent Number Title Of Patent Date Issued
7548322 Multi-axis interferometers and methods and systems using multi-axis interferometers Jun. 16, 2009
7545512 Method for automated measurement of three-dimensional shape of circuit boards Jun. 9, 2009
7504625 Substrate inspection method, manufacturing method of semiconductor device and substrate inspection apparatus Mar. 17, 2009
7492469 Interferometry systems and methods using spatial carrier fringes Feb. 17, 2009
7471396 Dual polarization interferometers for measuring opposite sides of a workpiece Dec. 30, 2008
7446883 Method and apparatus for tilt corrected lateral shear in a lateral shear plus rotational shear absolute flat test Nov. 4, 2008
7405833 Method for calibration and removal of wavefront errors Jul. 29, 2008
7400388 Method for determining distortion and/or image surface Jul. 15, 2008
7388675 Interferometers for the measurement of large diameter thin wafers Jun. 17, 2008
7375825 Light intensity ratio adjustment filter for an interferometer, interferometer, and light interference measurement method May. 20, 2008
7369251 Full-field optical measurements of surface properties of panels, substrates and wafers May. 6, 2008
7319528 Surface texture measuring instrument Jan. 15, 2008
7289222 Interferometer apparatus and method of processing a substrate having an optical surface Oct. 30, 2007
7188046 Form measuring device, form measuring method, form analysis device, form analysis program, and recording medium storing the program Mar. 6, 2007
7173715 Reduced coherence symmetric grazing incidence differential interferometer Feb. 6, 2007
7123365 Method of calibrating an interferometer optics and method of processing an optical element having an aspherical surface Oct. 17, 2006
7102762 Surface inspection apparatus Sep. 5, 2006
7042578 Method and apparatus for absolute figure metrology May. 9, 2006
6999180 Optical film topography and thickness measurement Feb. 14, 2006
6963406 Fused off-axis object illumination direct-to-digital holography with a plurality of illumination sources Nov. 8, 2005
6885460 Apparatus for and method of measuring surface shape of an object Apr. 26, 2005
6885461 Weighted least-square interferometric measurement of multiple surfaces Apr. 26, 2005
6882432 Frequency transform phase shifting interferometry Apr. 19, 2005
6806962 Tilted interferometer Oct. 19, 2004
6806966 Copper CMP flatness monitor using grazing incidence interferometry Oct. 19, 2004
6788422 Method and apparatus for using quasi-stable light sources in interferometry applications Sep. 7, 2004
6771375 Apparatus and method for measuring aspherical optical surfaces and wavefronts Aug. 3, 2004
6717680 Apparatus and method for phase-shifting interferometry Apr. 6, 2004
6473185 Alignment free interferometer and alignment free method of profiling object surfaces Oct. 29, 2002
6456384 Moire interferometer with overlapping illumination and imaging systems Sep. 24, 2002
6323951 Apparatus and method for determining the active dopant profile in a semiconductor wafer Nov. 27, 2001
6147764 Optical interference profiler having shadow compensation Nov. 14, 2000
6072581 Geometrically-desensitized interferometer incorporating an optical assembly with high stray-beam management capability Jun. 6, 2000
6038026 Apparatus and method for the determination of grain size in thin films Mar. 14, 2000
6018990 Flatness measuring and analyzing method Feb. 1, 2000
6010538 In situ technique for monitoring and controlling a process of chemical-mechanical-polishing via a radiative communication link Jan. 4, 2000
5894370 Inclination monitoring system Apr. 13, 1999
5790253 Method and apparatus for correcting linearity errors of a moving mirror and stage Aug. 4, 1998
5689337 Coaxial disc-mount for measuring flatness of computer-drive discs by interferometry Nov. 18, 1997
5680214 Horizontal-post/vertical-flexure arrangement for supporting large reference optics in phase-shifting scanning Oct. 21, 1997
5650853 Vibration-resistant interferometer Jul. 22, 1997
5583632 Apparatus for two or three dimensional optical inspection of a sample Dec. 10, 1996
5563706 Interferometric surface profiler with an alignment optical member Oct. 8, 1996
5557408 Method of and system for measurement of direction of surface and refractive index variations using interference fringes Sep. 17, 1996
5555472 Method and apparatus for measuring film thickness in multilayer thin film stack by comparison to a reference library of theoretical signatures Sep. 10, 1996
5506672 System for measuring slip dislocations and film stress in semiconductor processing utilizing an adjustable height rotating beam splitter Apr. 9, 1996
5502566 Method and apparatus for absolute optical measurement of entire surfaces of flats Mar. 26, 1996
5488477 Methods and apparatus for profiling surfaces of transparent objects Jan. 30, 1996
5473434 Phase shifting interferometer and method for surface topography measurement Dec. 5, 1995
5473433 Method of high yield manufacture of VLSI type integrated circuit devices by determining critical surface characteristics of mounting films Dec. 5, 1995

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