Pattern measuring apparatus and pattern measuring method

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PATENT NO 8431895
APP PUB NO 20110049362A1
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12807615

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A pattern measuring apparatus includes: an electron irradiating unit for radiating an electron beam onto a sample while scanning; an image data acquiring unit for acquiring an image of a pattern on the basis of secondary electrons generated from the sample; a measurement region setting unit for setting paired measurement regions each including a pattern edge in the image; and a controlling unit for calculating a distance between pattern edges in the paired measurement regions by detecting a shape of the pattern edge. The control unit calculates edge characteristic curves by finding moving averages of edge profiles and defines the positions of peak values of the edge characteristic curves as edge positions of the patterns in the measurement regions.

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ADVANTEST CORPORATION6-2 MARUNOUCHI 1-CHOME CHIYODA-KU TOKYO 100-0005

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Matsumoto, Jun Tokyo, JP 245 3098
Ogiso, Yoshiaki Tokyo, JP 10 52

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