A review and analysis of automatic optical inspection and quality monitoring methods in electronics industry

M Abd Al Rahman, A Mousavi - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electronics industry is one of the fastest evolving, innovative, and most competitive
industries. In order to meet the high consumption demands on electronics components …

Optical wafer defect inspection at the 10 nm technology node and beyond

J Zhu, J Liu, T Xu, S Yuan, Z Zhang… - … Journal of Extreme …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The growing demand for electronic devices, smart devices, and the Internet of Things
constitutes the primary driving force for marching down the path of decreased critical …

[PDF][PDF] 集成电路制造在线光学测量检测技术: 现状, 挑战与发展趋势

陈修国, 王才, 杨天娟, 刘佳敏, 罗成峰… - Laser & Optoelectronics …, 2022 - researching.cn
摘要在线测量检测技术与装备是保证集成电路(IC) 制造质量和良率的唯一有效技术手段, 在IC
制造过程中必须对IC 纳米结构的关键尺寸, 套刻误差, 以及缺陷等进行快速, 非破坏 …

Quasi-visualizable detection of deep sub-wavelength defects in patterned wafers by breaking the optical form birefringence

J Liu, J Zhu, Z Yu, X Feng, Z Li, L Zhong… - … Journal of Extreme …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing, fast, nondestructive, and precise detection of defects
in patterned wafers, realized by bright-field microscopy, is one of the critical factors for …

A deep residual neural network for semiconductor defect classification in imbalanced scanning electron microscope datasets

FL de la Rosa, JL Gómez-Sirvent, R Morales… - Applied Soft …, 2022 - Elsevier
The detection of defects using inspection systems is common in a wide range of
corporations such as semiconductor industries. The use of techniques based on deep …

A multiscale attention mechanism super-resolution confocal microscopy for wafer defect detection

X Sun, B Zhang, Y Wang, J Mai, Y Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Confocal microscopy is an essential component of wafer defect detection systems. Wafers
are raw materials used in the manufacture of semiconductor chips. The semiconductor chip …

Machine learning techniques applied for the detection of nanoparticles on surfaces using coherent Fourier scatterometry

D Kolenov, SF Pereira - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We present an efficient machine learning framework for detection and classification of
nanoparticles on surfaces that are detected in the far-field with coherent Fourier …

[HTML][HTML] Retrieving positions of closely packed subwavelength nanoparticles from their diffraction patterns

B Wang, R An, EA Chan, G Adamo, JK So, Y Li… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Distinguishing two objects or point sources located closer than the Rayleigh distance is
impossible in conventional microscopy. Understandably, the task becomes increasingly …

Relationship between the kernel size of a convolutional layer and the optical point spread function in ghost imaging using deep learning for identifying defect locations

S Kataoka, Y Mizutani, T Uenohara, Y Takaya… - Applied Optics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We explore the contribution of convolutional neural networks to correcting for the effect of the
point spread function (PSF) of the optics when applying ghost imaging (GI) combined with …

Noise-robust deep learning ghost imaging using a non-overlapping pattern for defect position mapping

S Kataoka, Y Mizutani, T Uenohara, Y Takaya… - Applied Optics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Defect detection requires highly sensitive and robust inspection methods. This study shows
that non-overlapping illumination patterns can improve the noise robustness of deep …