Pellicle Inspection and Pellicle Mounting System for CLIOS

51PA CM

51PA CM

Enabling the automated inspection and mounting of pellicles while linking with FPD photomask inspection system in the production line

Features

  • This one system completes from inspection to tentative and final mounting of a pellicle.
  • By connecting this system with CLIOS, particle adherence on photomasks and pellicles is remarkably reduced.
  • Equipping of an ionizer keeps clean environment preventing particle adherence and prevents productivity deterioration caused by re-mounting of pellicles.
  • The jigs for clamping a pellicle are stored in a stocker by different sizes and various sizes of pellicles can be appropriately processed, accordingly.
  • Exfoliate paper is peeled off without excess stress due to detection of tensile strength at the clamping position when a pellicle is pulled out from the transport case.
  • Alignment operation is available, while mounting a pellicle, by measuring the distance between the mask edges and pellicle edges by CCD cameras set at four positions.
  • High operability is realized by equipping an automatic particle inspection function on a pellicle surface, a review function, a function to eliminate particles by Air Blow and a function to reverse the front and the back surfaces.
  • This system works effectively for quality management and defective pellicle analysis, besides Good/No Good verification, because the detect particles can be observed either under bright view or under dark view and image data of particles can be storable.
  • After tentatively mounting a pellicle on a photomask, the pillicle / photomask is transported to a nearby press machine. In the press machine, a number of sucking pads that utilize atmospheric pressure are installed at regular interval and final mounting of pellicle can be performed by application of constant pressure and time.

Applications

  • Automated transfer and mounting of pellicles in FPD photomask production process
  • Particle inspection on a pellicle surface by reflective scattering light (Quality verification inspection of a pellicle)

Specifications

Pellicle size 1146mm x 1366mm (1220mm x 1400mm Pellicle size for a mask)
Inspection speed ≒50mm/sec
Inspection width =180mm
Scattering light detector Optical fiber coupling PTM*
*Optical fiber coupling photo multiplier tube
Particle size for inspection ≒10µm
Inspection area Pellicle surface inside the pellicle frame by 5mm

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