Patent 7238382 was granted and assigned to Tokyo Electron on July, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and system for diagnosing the effectiveness of a treatment on a porous material. For example, the porous material can include a porous low dielectric constant material. In particular, the method can utilize FTIR spectroscopy to characterize the porosity of materials, and assess the effectiveness of sealing pores in the material.