SEMI-CenterNet: A Machine Learning Facilitated Approach for Semiconductor Defect Inspection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07180v2
• Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:58:42 GMT
• Title: SEMI-CenterNet: A Machine Learning Facilitated Approach for Semiconductor Defect Inspection
• Authors: Vic De Ridder, Bappaditya Dey, Enrique Dehaerne, Sandip Halder, Stefan De Gendt, Bartel Van Waeyenberge
• Abstract summary: We have proposed SEMI-CenterNet (SEMI-CN), a customized CN architecture trained on SEM images of semiconductor wafer defects. SEMI-CN gets trained to output the center, class, size, and offset of a defect instance. We train SEMI-CN on two datasets and benchmark two ResNet backbones for the framework.
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• Abstract: Continual shrinking of pattern dimensions in the semiconductor domain is making it increasingly difficult to inspect defects due to factors such as the presence of stochastic noise and the dynamic behavior of defect patterns and types. Conventional rule-based methods and non-parametric supervised machine learning algorithms like KNN mostly fail at the requirements of semiconductor defect inspection at these advanced nodes. Deep Learning (DL)-based methods have gained popularity in the semiconductor defect inspection domain because they have been proven robust towards these challenging scenarios. In this research work, we have presented an automated DL-based approach for efficient localization and classification of defects in SEM images. We have proposed SEMI-CenterNet (SEMI-CN), a customized CN architecture trained on SEM images of semiconductor wafer defects. The use of the proposed CN approach allows improved computational efficiency compared to previously studied DL models. SEMI-CN gets trained to output the center, class, size, and offset of a defect instance. This is different from the approach of most object detection models that use anchors for bounding box prediction. Previous methods predict redundant bounding boxes, most of which are discarded in postprocessing. CN mitigates this by only predicting boxes for likely defect center points. We train SEMI-CN on two datasets and benchmark two ResNet backbones for the framework. Initially, ResNet models pretrained on the COCO dataset undergo training using two datasets separately. Primarily, SEMI-CN shows significant improvement in inference time against previous research works. Finally, transfer learning (using weights of custom SEM dataset) is applied from ADI dataset to AEI dataset and vice-versa, which reduces the required training time for both backbones to reach the best mAP against conventional training method.

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