Patent 7092826 was granted and assigned to Qcept Technologies on August, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and system for identifying a defect or contamination on a surface of a material. The method and system involves providing a material, such as a semiconductor wafer, using a non-vibrating contact potential difference sensor to scan the wafer, generate contact potential difference data and processing that data to identify a pattern characteristic of the defect or contamination.