Evaluating neural network reconstruction of wafer profile from electron microscopy

Erol Gelenbe; Rong Wang

doi:10.1117/12.420938

4 April 2001 Evaluating neural network reconstruction of wafer profile from electron microscopy

Erol Gelenbe, Rong Wang

Proceedings Volume 4305, Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in Image Processing VI; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.420938
Event: Photonics West 2001 - Electronic Imaging, 2001, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

In this paper we apply neural network techniques and physically based models to determine the surface shape of chips from scanning electronic microscopy images. Deducing some specific feature's vertical cross-section within an integrated circuit from 2D top down scanning electron microscope images of the feature surface is a difficult `inverse problem' which arises in semiconductor fabrication. This paper refines our previous work on the reconstruction of semiconductor wafer surface shapes from top down electron microscopy images. One of the approaches we have developed directly maps from the CD-SEM intensity waveforms to line profiles. The other novel method we describe is based on an approximate physical model, where we assume a simplified mathematical representation of the physical process that produces the SEM image from the electron beam's interaction with the feature surface. Our results are illustrated with a variety of real data sets.

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Erol Gelenbe and Rong Wang "Evaluating neural network reconstruction of wafer profile from electron microscopy", Proc. SPIE 4305, Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in Image Processing VI, (4 April 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.420938

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