Detecting groups of defects in semiconductor feature space

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PATENT NO 5991699
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08886805

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Techniques for improving manufacturing process control based on inspection of manufactured items at intermediate process steps, based on clustering and binning of defect data. Additionally, the using the defect data produced by inspection machines to improve manufacturing process control specifically relating to semiconductor manufacturing process control. Examples described here relate specifically to semiconductor wafers, but may be generalized to any manufacturing process.

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  • KLA INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kulkarni, Ashok V San Jose, CA 14 668
Rockwell, Paul Santa Cruz, CA 3 319

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