Defect classification device, inspection device, and inspection system
AssigneeHitachi High-Technologies Corporation
InventorsTakanori Kondo, Toshifumi Honda, Akira Hamamatsu, Hideo Ota, Yoshio Kimoto
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AssigneeHitachi High-Technologies Corporation
InventorsTakanori Kondo, Toshifumi Honda, Akira Hamamatsu, Hideo Ota, Yoshio Kimoto
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In order to prevent an erroneous determination of an on-film defect, the sensitivity of the post-inspection is reduced so that a film swelling due to a minute defect would not be detected. Classification is performed to determine whether a defect is at least one of an on-film defect and a film swelling, by performing a coordinate correction on the result of a post-inspection by an actual-defect fine alignment using the result of a pre-inspection performed with two-stage thresholds, and by checking defects against each other. In addition, classification is performed to determine whether a defect is at least one of an on-film defect and a film swelling by, during the post-inspection, preparing instruction data from information of the refractive index and thickness of a film formed on a wafer and comparing the instruction data with a signal intensity ratio of a detection system.
A defect classification device comprising:
A defect classification device comprising:
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