Patent ID: 9495505
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G01J,G01N,G02B,G06F,H01L

Claim Text:
1. A method performed by a fabrication system, the method comprising: receiving a design of an integrated computational element (ICE), the ICE design comprising: forming one or more of the layers of an ICE in accordance with the ICE design; determining that a minimum performance degradation of the ICE would exceed the maximum allowed degradation if the ICE having the formed one or more layers were to be completed based on the received ICE design; updating, in response to said determining, the ICE design by changing a previously specified total number of layers to a new total number of layers and obtaining new target layer thicknesses and complex refractive indices of layers remaining to be formed from the new total number of layers, such that a performance degradation of the ICE to be completed based on the updated ICE design is at most equal to the maximum allowed performance degradation; and forming one or more subsequent layers remaining to be formed from the new total number of layers in accordance with the updated ICE design.