Method of deep learning-based examination of a semiconductor specimen and system thereof

    公开(公告)号:US11348001B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-31

    申请号:US15675477

    申请日:2017-08-11

    Abstract: There are provided system and method of classifying defects in a semiconductor specimen. The method comprises: upon obtaining by a computer a Deep Neural Network (DNN) trained to provide classification-related attributes enabling minimal defect classification error, processing a fabrication process (FP) sample using the obtained trained DNN; and, resulting from the processing, obtaining by the computer classification-related attributes characterizing the at least one defect to be classified, thereby enabling automated classification, in accordance with the obtained classification-related attributes, of the at least one defect presented in the FP image. The DNN is trained using a classification training set comprising a plurality of first training samples and ground truth data associated therewith, each first training sample comprising a training image presenting at least one defect and the ground truth data is informative of classes and/or class distribution of defects presented in the respective first training samples; the FP sample comprises a FP image presenting at least one defect to be classified.

    Method of deep learning-based examination of a semiconductor specimen and system thereof

    公开(公告)号:US11205119B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-21

    申请号:US15384058

    申请日:2016-12-19

    Abstract: There are provided system and method of examining a semiconductor specimen. The method comprises: upon obtaining a Deep Neural Network (DNN) trained for a given examination-related application within a semiconductor fabrication process, processing together one or more fabrication process (FP) images using the obtained trained DNN, wherein the DNN is trained using a training set comprising ground truth data specific for the given application; and obtaining examination-related data specific for the given application and characterizing at least one of the processed one or more FP images. The examination-related application can be, for example, classifying at least one defect presented by at least one FP image, segmenting the at least one FP image, detecting defects in the specimen presented by the at least one FP image, registering between at least two FP images, regression application enabling reconstructing the at least one FP image in correspondence with different examination modality, etc.

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