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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2019
Carl Zeiss Smt Gmbh, Oberkochen, DE;
Jagdish Chandra Saraswatula, Singapore, SG;
Jens Timo Neumann, Aalen, DE;
Philipp Huethwohl, Ulm, DE;
Thomas Korb, Schwaebisch Gmuend, DE;
Raghavendra Hanumantha Nayak, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH, Oberkochen, DE;
Abstract
A method includes controlling a multi-scanning electron microscope, mSEM, to capture a first image of a wafer attached to a motorized handling stage while the motorized handling stage is in a first position. The first image includes at least a part of a notch of the wafer. The method also includes determining a radial axis of the wafer based on the first image, and controlling the motorized handling stage to shift the wafer along the radial axis by half a diameter of the wafer so that the motorized handling stage is in a second position. The method further includes controlling the mSEM to capture a second image of the wafer while the motorized handling stage is in the second position. The second image includes wafer structures. In addition, the method includes determining a reference position of the wafer based on a structure recognition of the wafer structures of the second image, and registering a wafer coordinate system of the wafer to a stage coordinate system of the motorized handling stage based on the reference position and the radial axis.