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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 27, 2018
Applicant:

Pdf Solutions, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Stephen Lam, Freemont, CA (US);

Dennis Ciplickas, San Jose, CA (US);

Tomasz Brozek, Morgan Hill, CA (US);

Jeremy Cheng, San Jose, CA (US);

Simone Comensoli, Darfo Boario Terme, IT;

Indranil De, Mountain View, CA (US);

Kelvin Doong, Hsinchu, TW;

Hans Eisenmann, Tutzing, DE;

Timothy Fiscus, New Galilee, PA (US);

Jonathan Haigh, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Christopher Hess, Belmont, CA (US);

John Kibarian, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);

Sherry Lee, Monte Sereno, CA (US);

Marci Liao, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Sheng-Che Lin, Hsinchu, TW;

Hideki Matsuhashi, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Kimon Michaels, Monte Sereno, CA (US);

Conor O'Sullivan, Campbell, CA (US);

Markus Rauscher, Munich, DE;

Vyacheslav Rovner, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Andrzej Strojwas, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Marcin Strojwas, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Carl Taylor, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Rakesh Vallishayee, Dublin, CA (US);

Larg Weiland, Hollister, CA (US);

Nobuharu Yokoyama, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

PDF Solutions, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 23/58 (2006.01); H01L 21/66 (2006.01); H01L 27/118 (2006.01); H01L 27/02 (2006.01); H01L 23/528 (2006.01); H01L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 22/34 (2013.01); H01L 23/528 (2013.01); H01L 27/0207 (2013.01); H01L 27/11803 (2013.01); H01L 29/0684 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for processing a semiconductor wafer uses non-contact electrical measurements indicative of at least one tip-to-tip short or leakage, at least one side-to-side short or leakage, and at least one chamfer short or leakage, where such measurements are obtained from non-contact pads associated with respective tip-to-tip short, side-to-side short, and chamfer short test areas.


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