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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2022
Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Masato Ohnishi, Nishigo-mura, JP;
SHIN-ETSU HANDOTAI CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A debris determination method of determining, from an image obtained by an appearance inspection device, debris that occurs around an HLM on a backside of a wafer, including: replacing luminance data of the image with matrix data; extracting an HLM-printed region; obtaining a least-squares plane of luminance; obtaining normalized matrix data by subtracting the least-squares plane from the printed region; obtaining protrusion-side matrix data by substituting 0 for matrix values less than 0; obtaining recess-side matrix data by inverting the sign of the normalized matrix data and substituting 0 for matrix values representing dots and noise; obtaining composite matrix data from the protrusion- and recess-side matrix data; obtaining low-pass matrix data by processing the composite matrix data; and determining debris from the low-pass matrix data with a predetermined threshold and obtaining an area ratio of the debris to determine the presence or absence of debris in the printed region.