Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp. Ltd.

Shin-Ying Chen

Chin-Hsiang Lin

Chang-Cheng Hung

Tyng-Hao Hsu

Chuan-Yuan Lin

A progressive self-learning (PSL) method is provided for enhancing wafer or mask defect inspection review and classification by identifying a plurality of wafer or mask defects, and by classifying each of the plurality of defects according to an extent of resemblance of each defect. The method having the steps of: performing image processing on a scanned defect image; aligning the scanned defect image with a just-stored digitized defect image; matching the scanned defect image with a just-stored digitized defect image; and classifying the scanned defect image.

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Hsinchu, Taiwan

Shin-Ying Chen