New patterned wafer inspection system with the function to classify fatal defects

Masami Ikota; Aritoshi Sugimoto; Yuko Inoue; Hisato Nakamura

doi:10.1117/12.350838

14 June 1999 New patterned wafer inspection system with the function to classify fatal defects

Masami Ikota, Aritoshi Sugimoto, Yuko Inoue, Hisato Nakamura

Proceedings Volume 3677, Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control for Microlithography XIII; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.350838
Event: Microlithography '99, 1999, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

The effective combination of the conventional in-line wafer inspection technique and yield prediction technique has become an important issue in order to reduce time for the development of LSI and to ramp the yield. At the last SPIE, we presented the change in the defect modes from conventional planarization process to CMP process and proposed the new inspection system for the CMP process. That is, the dark field type with the bright field optics which has the function to measure defect sizes. We now prose a new function to recognize automatically whether defects are either on or off the patterns. By monitoring the intensities of scattered light for the adjacent die at the positions where the defects are detected, the system can recognize that defects are either on or off the patterns. Using this new function, the patterned wafer inspection system can offer information about both the defect size and its fatality. As a result, we can evaluate the yield prediction and analyze the variation in the predicted yield quickly.

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Masami Ikota, Aritoshi Sugimoto, Yuko Inoue, and Hisato Nakamura "New patterned wafer inspection system with the function to classify fatal defects", Proc. SPIE 3677, Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control for Microlithography XIII, (14 June 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.350838

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