Patents Represented by Attorney Thomas L. Kindert
  • Patent number: 5150042
    Abstract: A non-destructive measurement system for producing whole wafer maps of sheet Hall concentration and Hall mobility in a GaAs wafer. The wafer need only have van der Pauw patterns available for the wafer measurements to be made. The measurement system includes an automatic test prober apparatus modified to incorporate a powerful permanent magnet providing a magnetic field to produce a Hall effect in the GaAs wafer. A parametric measurement system coupled through test probes to the van der Pauw patterns is programmed to measure sheet resistivity, Hall voltage and magnetic field strength, from which are derived values of sheet Hall concentration and mobility that are stored and mapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1992
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: David C. Look, Philip D. Mumford