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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul J. Steffan, Elk Grove, CA (US);
Allen S. Yu, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/166 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/166 ;
Abstract
A method of reducing the effect of placement errors during defect capture and analysis during the manufacture of integrated devices on semiconductor wafers wherein defects from a current layer are evaluated in relation to defects from previous layers after an oversized overlay map has been utilized to perform a best-fit analysis of current defects and previous defects, the oversized overlay map reduced and a trend analysis performed to determine error type and the coordinates of defects translated to their proper location.