Patents by Inventor Sunhong JUN
Sunhong JUN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12566128Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes a light source assembly configured to emit light to a sample, a measuring device configured to measure reflected light, and a stage on which the sample is provided, where the light source assembly includes a first plate, a plurality of light sources connected to the first plate and a blocking panel comprising a hole, and one of the plurality of light sources is aligned with the hole in a first direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 3, 2026Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jaeho Kim, Younghoon Sohn, Sunhong Jun
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Publication number: 20260049928Abstract: A measuring apparatus includes a stage including a transmissive wafer chuck on which a sample wafer is provided, where the sample wafer includes a silicon substrate and at least one material layer on the silicon substrate, a light source unit including a light source configured to generate and output a femtosecond laser beam, and a confocal laser-induced terahertz (THz) emission microscopy (LTEM) unit configured to generate multi-photon excitation by splitting the femtosecond laser beam into four sub-laser beams and causing three sub-laser beams among the four sub-laser beams to be incident in an overlapping manner on a measurement position of the sample wafer, where the confocal LTEM unit is configured to generate the multi-photon excitation based on the three sub-laser beams being incident on a lower surface of the silicon substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2025Publication date: February 19, 2026Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sunhong JUN, Inkeun Baek, Wontae Kim, Namil Koo, Ingi Kim, Sungyoon Ryu, Younghoon Sohn, Yusin Yang, Ikseon Jeon, Eunhyuk Choi
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Publication number: 20260043751Abstract: Provided is an inspection device including: a light source generating and outputting a femtosecond laser beam; a beam splitter configured to split the femtosecond laser beam into a first light and a second light; a first optical array configured to separate the first light into a first sub-light and a second sub-light and to provide the first and the second sub-lights to an inspection target, wherein the first sub-light and the second sub-light are polarized in different directions; a microprobe configured to detect a photoelectric signal caused by incidence of the first and the second sub-lights on the inspection target, the microprobe including a first microprobe configured to detect the first sub-light and a second microprobe configured to detect the second sub-light; and a second optical array configured to provide the second light to the microprobe.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2025Publication date: February 12, 2026Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: SUNHONG JUN, Inkeun Baek, Taejoong Kim, Younghoon Sohn
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Patent number: 12516979Abstract: An optical module includes: a diffraction grating configured to rotate and focus a beam, which is incident thereon from an incident path, onto a Fourier plane, a digital micromirror array (DMD) configured to assign a frequency for each wavelength of the focused beam received at the Fourier plane, and perform a Fourier transform for each frequency, and a first optical fiber configured to receive a beam that is reflected back from the DMD back and the diffraction grating, and along the incident path.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2024Date of Patent: January 6, 2026Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sunhong Jun, Sung Yoon Ryu, Younghoon Sohn, Eunsoo Hwang
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Publication number: 20260003171Abstract: An optical delay generator includes a polarizing beam splitter configured to split an incident beam by reflecting or transmitting the incident beam depending on the polarization state, a rotating polygonal mirror configured to reflect the incident beam reflected from the polarizing beam splitter to provide a first reflected beam, a micromirror array configured to reflect the first reflected beam and configured to provide a second reflected beam back to the rotating polygonal mirror, and a phase delay member between the polarizing beam splitter and the rotating polygonal mirror, wherein the polarizing beam splitter is configured to provide an output beam by transmitting a third reflected beam provided by reflecting the second reflected beam from the rotating polygonal mirror, and the output beam has an optical delay difference with respect to the incident beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2025Publication date: January 1, 2026Inventors: Sunhong Jun, Inkeun Baek, Wontae Kim, Taejoong Kim, Eunhyuk Choi
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Patent number: 12474260Abstract: A measuring apparatus includes a stage including a transmissive wafer chuck on which a sample wafer is provided, where the sample wafer includes a silicon substrate and at least one material layer on the silicon substrate, a light source unit including a light source configured to generate and output a femtosecond laser beam, and a confocal laser-induced terahertz (THz) emission microscopy (LTEM) unit configured to generate multi-photon excitation by splitting the femtosecond laser beam into four sub-laser beams and causing three sub-laser beams among the four sub-laser beams to be incident in an overlapping manner on a measurement position of the sample wafer, where the confocal LTEM unit is configured to generate the multi-photon excitation based on the three sub-laser beams being incident on a lower surface of the silicon substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2023Date of Patent: November 18, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sunhong Jun, Inkeun Baek, Wontae Kim, Namil Koo, Ingi Kim, Sungyoon Ryu, Younghoon Sohn, Yusin Yang, Ikseon Jeon, Eunhyuk Choi
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Patent number: 12469750Abstract: Provided is a method of extracting properties of a layer on a wafer, the method including emitting electromagnetic waves to a lower surface of the wafer, detecting a first electromagnetic wave, that passes through a target layer on an upper surface of the wafer, and a second electromagnetic wave, that is reflected from the target layer, among the electromagnetic waves to obtain data including information about the first electromagnetic wave and the second electromagnetic wave, and separating a first pulse of the first electromagnetic wave and a second pulse of the second electromagnetic wave from each other in the data and obtaining property data of the target layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2023Date of Patent: November 11, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Inkeun Baek, Suhwan Park, Ikseon Jeon, Namil Koo, Ingi Kim, Jaeho Kim, Junbum Park, Sunhong Jun
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Patent number: 12332164Abstract: A dual resolution spectrometer includes a slit plate comprising a slit receiving light reflected from a measurement target. The slit plate directs the light reflected from the measurement target to a first mirror. The first mirror reflects light from the slit to a diffraction grating. The diffraction grating disperses light from the first mirror according to a wavelength of the light. The diffraction grating directs light in a first wavelength region to a second mirror and directs light in a second wavelength region to a third mirror. The second mirror reflects the light in the first wavelength region to a detector. The third mirror reflects the light in the second wavelength region to the detector. The detector detects the light in the first wavelength region and the light in the second wavelength region with different resolutions from each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2023Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sunhong Jun, Jaeho Kim, Younghoon Sohn
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Publication number: 20250076116Abstract: An optical module includes: a diffraction grating configured to rotate and focus a beam, which is incident thereon from an incident path, onto a Fourier plane, a digital micromirror array (DMD) configured to assign a frequency for each wavelength of the focused beam received at the Fourier plane, and perform a Fourier transform for each frequency, and a first optical fiber configured to receive a beam that is reflected back from the DMD back and the diffraction grating, and along the incident path.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Sunhong Jun, Sung Yoon Ryu, Younghoon Sohn, Eunsoo Hwang
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Publication number: 20250003734Abstract: A measuring system measures an overall resistance of two or more films on a substrate/measurement object by a terahertz absorption measurement and an overall film thickness by a photoacoustic measurement. The system estimates a first film thickness based on the overall resistance, then subtracts this estimated thickness from the overall film thickness measured by the photoacoustic measurement. The system includes a source unit to output a laser beam. A first pump-probe unit receives the laser beam and performs a photoacoustic test on the measurement object. A second pump-probe unit receives the laser beam and performs a terahertz signal test on the measurement object.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Sungyoon Ryu, Ingi Kim, Suhwan Park, Inkeun Baek, Younghoon Sohn, Soobin Sinn, Yusin Yang, Sunhong Jun, Ikseon Jeon
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Publication number: 20240295490Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes a light source assembly configured to emit light to a sample, a measuring device configured to measure reflected light, and a stage on which the sample is provided, where the light source assembly includes a first plate, a plurality of light sources connected to the first plate and a blocking panel comprising a hole, and one of the plurality of light sources is aligned with the hole in a first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2023Publication date: September 5, 2024Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jaeho Kim, Younghoon Sohn, Sunhong Jun
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Publication number: 20240255439Abstract: A defect detection method includes radiating light onto a substrate, obtaining a spectrum image, performing an electrical die sorting (EDS) test on the substrate, inspecting defects of each of a plurality of blocks of the substrate based on a result of the EDS test, generating a defect map, generating spectrum image information by matching the spectrum image with the defect map, training a defect detection model by using the defect grade as an output value and the spectrum image information as an input value, obtaining a target spectrum image with respect to a target substrate, extracting a feature vector from the target spectrum image by using the defect detection model, and detecting a target defect grade of the target spectrum image based on the feature vector, and generating a target defect map based on the target defect grade.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Heeyoon Han, Donghoon Kim, Sungyoon Ryu, Younghoon Sohn, Sunhong Jun
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Publication number: 20240230528Abstract: A measuring apparatus includes a stage including a transmissive wafer chuck on which a sample wafer is provided, where the sample wafer includes a silicon substrate and at least one material layer on the silicon substrate, a light source unit including a light source configured to generate and output a femtosecond laser beam, and a confocal laser-induced terahertz (THz) emission microscopy (LTEM) unit configured to generate multi-photon excitation by splitting the femtosecond laser beam into four sub-laser beams and causing three sub-laser beams among the four sub-laser beams to be incident in an overlapping manner on a measurement position of the sample wafer, where the confocal LTEM unit is configured to generate the multi-photon excitation based on the three sub-laser beams being incident on a lower surface of the silicon substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sunhong Jun, Inkeun Baek, Wontae Kim, Namil Koo, Ingi Kim, Sungyoon Ryu, Younghoon Sohn, Yusin Yang, Ikseon Jeon, Eunhyuk Choi
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Publication number: 20240234216Abstract: Provided is a method of extracting properties of a layer on a wafer, the method including emitting electromagnetic waves to a lower surface of the wafer, detecting a first electromagnetic wave, that passes through a target layer on an upper surface of the wafer, and a second electromagnetic wave, that is reflected from the target layer, among the electromagnetic waves to obtain data including information about the first electromagnetic wave and the second electromagnetic wave, and separating a first pulse of the first electromagnetic wave and a second pulse of the second electromagnetic wave from each other in the data and obtaining property data of the target layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2023Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Inkeun BAEK, Suhwan PARK, Ikseon JEON, Namil KOO, Ingi KIM, Jaeho KIM, Junbum PARK, Sunhong JUN
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Publication number: 20240136232Abstract: Provided is a method of extracting properties of a layer on a wafer, the method including emitting electromagnetic waves to a lower surface of the wafer, detecting a first electromagnetic wave, that passes through a target layer on an upper surface of the wafer, and a second electromagnetic wave, that is reflected from the target layer, among the electromagnetic waves to obtain data including information about the first electromagnetic wave and the second electromagnetic wave, and separating a first pulse of the first electromagnetic wave and a second pulse of the second electromagnetic wave from each other in the data and obtaining property data of the target layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Inkeun BAEK, Suhwan PARK, Ikseon JEON, Namil KOO, Ingi KIM, Jaeho KIM, Junbum PARK, Sunhong JUN
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Patent number: 11921270Abstract: An inspection system includes a main support die configured to receive a target specimen; an auxiliary support die adjacent to the main support die and configured to receive a reference specimen; a cleaning device configured to remove contaminants from the reference specimen; an objective lens unit configured to direct light to main support die from a light source adjacent to the objective lens unit; a spectroscope between the objective lens unit and the light source; a detector adjacent to the objective lens unit; an imaging device between the objective lens unit and the detector; and a computer system in communication with the detector.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sungil Choi, Yeeun Park, Kyungbeom Kim, Sungyoon Ryu, Jinwoo Ahn, Sunhong Jun
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Publication number: 20240035957Abstract: A dual resolution spectrometer includes a slit plate comprising a slit receiving light reflected from a measurement target. The slit plate directs the light reflected from the measurement target to a first mirror. The first mirror reflects light from the slit to a diffraction grating. The diffraction grating disperses light from the first mirror according to a wavelength of the light. The diffraction grating directs light in a first wavelength region to a second mirror and directs light in a second wavelength region to a third mirror. The second mirror reflects the light in the first wavelength region to a detector. The third mirror reflects the light in the second wavelength region to the detector. The detector detects the light in the first wavelength region and the light in the second wavelength region with different resolutions from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Sunhong JUN, Jaeho Kim, Younghoon Sohn
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Publication number: 20230008686Abstract: An inspection system includes a main support die configured to receive a target specimen; an auxiliary support die adjacent to the main support die and configured to receive a reference specimen; a cleaning device configured to remove contaminants from the reference specimen; an objective lens unit configured to direct light to main support die from a light source adjacent to the objective lens unit; a spectroscope between the objective lens unit and the light source; a detector adjacent to the objective lens unit; an imaging device between the objective lens unit and the detector; and a computer system in communication with the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Sungil Choi, Yeeun Park, Kyungbeom Kim, Sungyoon Ryu, Jinwoo Ahn, Sunhong Jun
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Publication number: 20200182783Abstract: Disclosed are a measuring apparatus and a substrate analysis method using the same. The measuring apparatus includes a light source that generates a laser beam, a beam splitter that splits the laser beam into a probe laser beam and a reference laser beam, an antenna that receives the probe laser beam to produce a terahertz beam, an electro-optical device that receives the reference laser beam and the terahertz beam to change a vertical polarization component and a horizontal polarization component of the reference laser beam, based on intensity of the terahertz beam, and a streak camera that obtains a time-domain signal corresponding to a ratio between the vertical polarization component and the horizontal polarization component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Sunhong JUN, Sung Yoon RYU, Souk KIM, Younghoon SOHN, Yusin YANG