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19 March 2015 Accelerated technology development by the use of critical point imaging SEM
Dominique Sanchez, Benôit Hinschberger, Loemba Bouckou, Olivier Moreau, Paolo Parisi
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Abstract
In order to optimize the time to market of the newest technology nodes and maximize their profitability, advanced semiconductor manufacturers need to adapt their yield enhancement strategies to their current development stage. During very early development, gross Defectivity at some critical process steps often makes it impractical to use broadband plasma or laser scanning micro-defect patterned wafer inspection techniques: such sensitive defect inspections capture a large number of defects, producing wafer defect maps so heavily populated that even wafer level signature are difficult to visualize.
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Dominique Sanchez, Benôit Hinschberger, Loemba Bouckou, Olivier Moreau, and Paolo Parisi "Accelerated technology development by the use of critical point imaging SEM", Proc. SPIE 9424, Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control for Microlithography XXIX, 94242H (19 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2073889
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KEYWORDS
Scanning electron microscopy

Semiconducting wafers

Inspection

Image processing

Microelectronics

Process control

Imaging systems

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