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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2014
Applicant:
Kla-tencor Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Inventors:
Himanshu Vajaria, San Jose, CA (US);
Tommaso Torelli, San Mateo, CA (US);
Bradley Ries, San Jose, CA (US);
Mohan Mahadevan, Livermore, CA (US);
Assignee:
KLA-Tencor Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/00 (2017.01); H01L 21/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0004 (2013.01); H01L 22/12 (2013.01); H01L 22/20 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20076 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30148 (2013.01); Y02P 90/14 (2015.11);
Abstract
Methods and systems for monitoring process tool conditions are disclosed. The method combines single wafer, multiple wafers within a single lot and multiple lot information together statistically as input to a custom classification engine that can consume single or multiple scan, channel, wafer and lot to determine process tool status.