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Owing to high accuracy in the whole measurement range, the compensator-rotating method is a powerful technique for transmission/reflection ellipsometric measurements. The compensator-rotating imaging ellipsometer, which is a system combing the optical microscope and single measurement point ellipsometer, faces non-ideal measurement conditions involving nonuniformity of the retardation across the compensator. In this paper, we study the effect of non-ideal measurement conditions on the measurement noises and introduce the systematic solution.
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Jin, L., Iizuka, Y., Kondoh, E. et al. Imaging ellipsometry measurement noises associated with non-uniform retardation of the compensator. Opt Rev 27, 73–80 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-019-00569-5
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