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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2021
Applied Materials Israel Ltd., Rehovot, IL;
Applied Materials Israel Ltd., Rehovot, IL;
Abstract
There are provided systems and methods of obtaining a segmented image of a semiconductor specimen, the image comprising first structural elements, obtaining a reference image of the semiconductor specimen, the reference image being based on design data and comprising second structural elements, determining, for at least one pair of elements including a first structural element and a corresponding second structural element, data Dinformative of a spatial transformation required in order to match the elements of the pair in accordance with a matching criterion, and determining at least one of data informative of a defect in the first structural element and data informative of edge roughness of the first structural element using at least D.