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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2021
Applicant:
Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/67 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/67253 (2013.01); H01L 21/67248 (2013.01); H01L 21/67259 (2013.01); H01L 21/67288 (2013.01);
Abstract
A control device includes a reception unit configured to receive a film characteristic at a plurality of positions of a film formed on a substrate by a film forming processing based on a processing recipe, an optimization processing unit configured to execute an optimization calculation of the processing recipe based on the film characteristic, a diagnosis unit configured to diagnose a validity of an in-plane shape of the film characteristic based on the film characteristic, and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to notify a user of an encouraging action based on a diagnosis result by the diagnosis unit.