An unsupervised self-organizing neural network for automatic semiconductor wafer defect inspection

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作者
Chang, CY [1 ]
Chang, JW [1 ]
Jeng, MD [1 ]
机构
[1] Natl Yunlin Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Elect Engn, Touliu, Yunlin, Taiwan
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wafer inspection; self-organizing neural network; unsupervised learning;
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TP24 [机器人技术];
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080202 ; 1405 ;
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Semiconductor wafer defect inspection is an important process before die packaging. The defective regions are usually identified through visual judgment with the aid of a scanning electron microscope. Dozens of people visually check wafers and hand-mark their defective regions. By this means, potential misjudgment may be introduced due to human fatigue. In addition, the process can incur significant personnel costs. Prior work has proposed automated post-sawing wafer defect inspection that is based on supervised neural networks. Since it requires learned patterns specific to each application, its disadvantage is the lack of product flexibility. Self-Organizing Neural Networks (SONNs) have been proven to have the capabilities of unsupervised auto-clustering. In this paper, automated wafer inspection based on a self-organizing neural network is proposed. Based on real-world data, experimental results show that the proposed method successfully identifies the defective regions on wafers with good performances.
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页码:3000 / 3005
页数:6
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