AUTOMATED WAFER DEFECT INSPECTION SYSTEM AND A PROCESS OF PERFORMING SUCH INSPECTION

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20120087569A1
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13273645

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An automated defect inspection system has been invented and is used on patterned wafers, whole wafers, broken wafers, partial wafers, sawn wafers such as on film frames, JEDEC trays, Auer boats, die in gel or waffle packs, MCMs, etc., and is specifically intended and designed for second optical wafer inspection for such defects as metalization defects (such as scratches, voids, corrosion, and bridging), diffusion defects, passivation layer defects, scribing defects, glassivation defects, chips and cracks from sawing, solder bump defects, and bond pad area defects.

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RUDOLPH TECHNOLOGIES INCONE RUDOLPH ROAD FLANDERS NJ 07836

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Harless, Mark New Hope, US 15 426
O'Dell, Jeffrey Deephaven, US 6 354
Verburgt, Thomas Eden Prairie, US 7 359
Watkins, Cory Ramsey, US 30 332

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