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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120105865 | MICROLITHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND RELATED METHOD A microlithographic projection exposure apparatus includes an optical surface and a measurement device which measures a parameter related to the optical surface at a plurality of separated areas on the optical surface. The measurement device includes an illumination uni... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20100284007 | Spectrum Based Endpointing For Chemical Mechanical Polishing Methods and apparatus for spectrum-based endpointing. An endpointing method includes selecting a reference spectrum. The reference spectrum is a spectrum of white light reflected from a film of interest on a first substrate and has a thickness greater than a target thic... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100284006 | ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL OF FLUID SAMPLES, CALIBRATION, AND DETECTION OF CONCENTRATION LEVELS According to example configurations herein, a system includes an inertial filter, a temperature controller, and analyzer. The inertial filter has multiple ports including a first port, a second port, and a third port. A sample gas flows between the first port and the th... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100177314 | METHODS FOR ON-LINE CALIBRATING OUTPUT POWER OF OPTICAL PICK-UP The present invention relates to methods for on-line calibrating output power of an optical pick-up. A power adjusting circuit of the optical pick-up has an optical power regulator and an optical power detector. The on-line output power calibrating method includes the s... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100103422 | GOODNESS OF FIT IN SPECTROGRAPHIC MONITORING OF A SUBSTRATE DURING PROCESSING A sequence of current spectra is obtained with an in-situ optical monitoring system, and each current spectrum is compared to a plurality of reference spectra from a plurality of reference spectra libraries. The library that provides a best fit to the sequence of curren... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20090240466 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING AN OBJECT THAT HAS A REPETITIVE PATTERN A method for evaluating placement errors within a lithographic mask, the method includes: providing or receiving a reference result that represents a distance between a reference pair of points of a reference element; measuring, for each pair of points out of multiple p... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090135423 | LIGHT INTENSITY MEASURING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE The present invention discloses a method for measuring an intensity of a part of an electromagnetic spectral range, and an electronic device implementing the method. The method comprises the steps of providing an electronic device comprising an optical device (10... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135424 | Inspection Method and Apparatus, Lithographic Apparatus, Lithographic Processing Cell and Device Manufacturing Method for Determining A Parameter of a Target Pattern In a method for determining a structure parameter of a target pattern, a first series of calibration spectra are determined from at least one reference pattern, each spectra being determined using a different known value of at least one structure parameter of the respec... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090066955 | Device and method for determining an optical property of a mask A coordinate measuring machine (1) including a plane (25a) in which there is arranged a movable measurement table (20) moving the mask (2) correspondingly in the plane (25a), at least one objective (9) and a detect... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20080204875 | MICROLITHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS A microlithographic projection exposure apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus can have an illumination system for generating projection light, an absorption filter which has a varying absorption coefficient distribution, and a mask which is illuminated by the projection... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080037001 | BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS [Problem] A biometric identification apparatus that can accurately and rapidly perform liveness detection with a simple structure. [Solution] The apparatus includes a plurality of light sources 102, 103, 106, and 107, each hav... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20060232776 | Systems and methods for use in detecting harmful aerosol particles The invention provides systems and methods for detecting aerosols. The systems and methods can be used to detect harmful aerosols, such as, bio-aerosols. ... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060232775 | Systems and methods for use in detecting harmful aerosol particles The invention provides systems and methods for detecting aerosols. The systems and methods can be used to detect harmful aerosols, such as, bio-aerosols. ... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060187453 | Apparatus for the examination of the properties of optical surfaces A device for examining the optical properties of surfaces includes a first radiation source which emits radiation to an examination surface, at least one first detector device, for detecting the radiation reflected off the surface and emitting at least one signal that i... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20050213096 | Pattern recognition system A star pattern recognition system (1) comprises an optical filter arrangement (10) in the form of an array (12) of independently tiltable mirrors (M1), (M2). Light from a distant starfield (2) is incident upon the mirror array (... | 09/29/2005 |
