Virtual overlay metrology for fault detection supported with integrated metrology and machine learning
| Autor: | Thomas Theeuwes, Michael Kubis, Daan Slotboom, Young-Wan Lim, Kyu-Tae Sun, Sungki Park, Emil Schmitt-Weaver, Jens Staecker, Honggoo Lee, Min-Suk Kim, Won-Taik Kwon, Sangjun Han, Kevin Ryan, Myoung-Soo Kim |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
Computer science
business.industry Semiconductor device fabrication Node (networking) ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS Overlay Machine learning computer.software_genre Fault detection and isolation Metrology Computer data storage Virtual metrology Wafer Artificial intelligence business Lithography computer |
| Zdroj: | SPIE Proceedings. |
| ISSN: | 0277-786X |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2085475 |
| Popis: | While semiconductor manufacturing moves toward the 7nm node for logic and 15nm node for memory, an increased emphasis has been placed on reducing the influence known contributors have toward the on product overlay budget. With a machine learning technique known as function approximation, we use a neural network to gain insight to how known contributors, such as those collected with scanner metrology, influence the on product overlay budget. The result is a sufficiently trained function that can approximate overlay for all wafers exposed with the lithography system. As a real world application, inline metrology can be used to measure overlay for a few wafers while using the trained function to approximate overlay vector maps for the entire lot of wafers. With the approximated overlay vector maps for all wafers coming off the track, a process engineer can redirect wafers or lots with overlay signatures outside the standard population to offline metrology for excursion validation. With this added flexibility, engineers will be given more opportunities to catch wafers that need to be reworked, resulting in improved yield. The quality of the derived corrections from measured overlay metrology feedback can be improved using the approximated overlay to trigger, which wafers should or shouldn’t be, measured inline. As a development or integration engineer the approximated overlay can be used to gain insight into lots and wafers used for design of experiments (DOE) troubleshooting. In this paper we will present the results of a case study that follows the machine learning function approximation approach to data analysis, with production overlay measured on an inline metrology system at SK hynix. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|