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A Systematic Review of Deep Learning for Silicon Wafer Defect Recognition
2021
IEEE Access
They trained an ensemble of six DBNs for six classes of defects in the real wafer map data and tested it on the wafers having single and mixed type defects. ...
Byun and Baek [45] used a CAE to initialize CNN weights. The model was trained on single-type defect map data and tested on the combination of single and mixed type patterns. ...
doi:10.1109/access.2021.3106171
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Efficient Mixed-Type Wafer Defect Pattern Recognition Using Compact Deformable Convolutional Transformers
[article]
2023
arXiv
pre-print
Mixed-type DPR is much more complicated compared to single-type DPR due to varied spatial features, the uncertainty of defects, and the number of defects present. ...
Defect Pattern Recognition (DPR) of wafer maps is crucial to find the root cause of the issue and further improving the yield in the wafer foundry. ...
Therefore, we resize all wafer images to 52×52. The wafer maps are classified into 38 categories based on the type and number of defects present in a wafer map. ...
arXiv:2303.13827v2
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Improved U-Net with Residual Attention Block for Mixed-Defect Wafer Maps
2022
Applied Sciences
By using the proposed method, we can extract an improved feature map by suppressing irrelevant features and paying attention to the defect to be found. ...
In particular, because mixed defects have become more likely with the development of technology, finding them has become more complex than can be performed by conventional wafer defect detection. ...
Therefore, accurately classifying the defect patterns on the wafer map allows defect sources from the manufacturing process to be identified. ...
doi:10.3390/app12042209
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Mixed-Type Wafer Classification For Low Memory Devices Using Knowledge Distillation
[article]
2023
arXiv
pre-print
Identifying multiple defects in a wafer is generally harder compared to identifying a single defect. Recently, deep learning methods have gained significant traction in mixed-type DPR. ...
Defect Pattern Recognition (DPR) of wafer maps is crucial for determining the root cause of production defects, which may further provide insight for yield improvement in wafer foundry. ...
The 13 mixed defect patterns from C10-C22 belong to wafers with 2 single-type defects on them, while the 12 mixed defect patterns identified as C23 through C34 belong to wafers with 3 single-type defects ...
arXiv:2303.13974v2
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Defects Recognition on Wafer Maps Using Multilayer Feed-Forward Neural Network
[chapter]
2020
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
The neural network classifies wafer-defect maps into classes. Each class represents certain defect on the map. ...
The neural network was trained, tested and validated using a wafer-defect maps dataset containing real defects inspired from manufacturing process. ...
Single and mixed defects patterns using deep machine learning based approach were studied by [7] . ...
doi:10.3233/faia200828
fatcat:anv4zjunlzg7jgcmlm2n6qn7py
A Fast Postprocessing Algorithm for the Overlapping Problem in Wafer Map Detection
2021
Journal of Sensors
Mixed defects have become increasingly popular in defect detection and one of the hottest research areas in wafer maps. ...
Postprocessing methods used to solve the overlapping problem in mass mixed defects have a poor detection speed, which is insufficient for rapid defect detection. ...
Kyeong and Kim [1] applied CNNs to classify mixed defect patterns of wafer maps and established a separate model for each single defect pattern (whether there is a corresponding model when multiple defect ...
doi:10.1155/2021/2682286
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Unsupervised Pre-Training of Imbalanced Data for Identification of Wafer Map Defect Patterns
2021
IEEE Access
In the early stages, research has been conducted to extract features from wafer maps and classify defective patterns using machine learning techniques. ...
Moreover, Kyeong and Kim [28] proposed a CNN-based classification model to classify mixed-type defect patterns in wafer bin maps separately for each pattern circle, ring, scratch, and zone. ...
doi:10.1109/access.2021.3068378
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WaferSegClassNet - A light-weight network for classification and segmentation of semiconductor wafer defects
2022
Computers in industry (Print)
WSCN performs simultaneous classification and segmentation of both single and mixed-type wafer defects. ...
For analyzing mixed-type defects, some previous works require separately training one model for each defect type, which is non-scalable. ...
This has also led to mixed-type defects, where two or more defect patterns exist in a single wafer. ...
doi:10.1016/j.compind.2022.103720
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A Unified Defect Pattern Analysis of Wafer Maps Using Density-Based Clustering
2021
IEEE Access
Wafer maps with global defects are generated through Bernoulli trials. We assume that a single wafer map contains 400 chips and the distance between two adjacent chips is set to 1. ...
., an ability to identify simultaneously occurred several defect patterns on a single wafer map and arbitrary shaped clustered patterns such as a ring. ...
doi:10.1109/access.2021.3084221
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Semiconductor Defect Detection by Hybrid Classical-Quantum Deep Learning
[article]
2022
arXiv
pre-print
By tuning parameters implemented on it, quantum circuit driven by our framework learns a given DLDR task, include of wafer defect map classification, defect pattern classification, and hotspot detection ...
These results can be used to build a future roadmap to develop circuit-based quantum deep learning for semiconductor defect detection. ...
The wafer maps with a single pattern or nonoverlapping mixed-type pattern were segmented into single pattern maps and then classified by a CNN. ...
arXiv:2208.03514v1
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Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Semiconductor Wafer Bin Map Classification
2023
Sensors
The defect patterns shown on the wafer map provide information about the process and equipment in which the defect occurred, but automating pattern classification is difficult to apply to actual manufacturing ...
The purpose of this study was to classify these defect patterns with a small amount of resources and time. ...
That way, even images of mixed types will be classified. Figure 1 . 1 Figure 1. Wafer bin map defect patterns. Green areas are normal chips and yellow areas are defective chips. ...
doi:10.3390/s23041926
pmid:36850523
pmcid:PMC9960339
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Deep Learning-Based Defect Classification and Detection in SEM Images
[article]
2022
arXiv
pre-print
This proposes a novel ensemble deep learning-based model to accurately classify, detect and localize different defect categories for aggressive pitches and thin resists (High NA applications).In particular ...
In this work we have developed a novel robust supervised deep learning training scheme to accurately classify as well as localize different defect types in SEM images with high degree of accuracy. ...
In this paper, the authors proposed CNN and XGBoost techniques to retrieve wafer maps and to classify the defect patterns. ...
arXiv:2206.13505v1
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Inspection and Classification of Semiconductor Wafer Surface Defects Using CNN Deep Learning Networks
2020
Applied Sciences
This paper presents a vision-based machine-learning-based method to classify visible surface defects on semiconductor wafers. ...
Its performance in wafer-defect classification shows superior performance compared to other machine-learning methods investigated in the experiments. ...
Type-C defects vary from wafer to wafer. This type of defect is the most common occurrence in semiconductor manufacturing. ...
doi:10.3390/app10155340
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A Wafer Bin Map "Relaxed" Clustering Algorithm for Improving Semiconductor Production Yield
2020
Open Computer Science
In particular, Wafer Bin Maps (WBMs) presenting specific fault models provide crucial information to keep track of process problems in semiconductor manufacturing. ...
This study proposes a network-based data mining approach, which integrates correlation graphs with clustering analysis to quickly extract patterns from WBMs and then bind them to manufacturing defects. ...
Mixed defects: they are made of random and systematic defects [21] (last pattern in Figure 4 ): most wafers have maps of this type. ...
doi:10.1515/comp-2020-0175
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2019 Index IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing Vol. 32
2019
IEEE transactions on semiconductor manufacturing
Voting Ensemble Classifier for Wafer Map Defect Patterns Identification in Semiconductor Manufacturing. ...
., +, TSM Feb. 2019 39-47
A Voting Ensemble Classifier for Wafer Map Defect Patterns Identification
in Semiconductor Manufacturing. ...
Profitability A Productivity-Oriented Wafer Map Optimization Using Yield Model Based on Machine Learning. ...
doi:10.1109/tsm.2019.2958442
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