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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2014
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno, The Hague, NL;
Johannes Adrianus Cornelis Theeuwes, The Hague, NL;
Jeroen Anthonius Smeltink, The Hague, NL;
Egbert Anne Martijn Brouwer, The Hague, NL;
Gerrit Oosterhuis, The Hague, NL;
NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO, 'S-Gravenhage, NL;
Abstract
A method for providing position control information for controlling an impingement position of a laser beam for treatment of a chip die in a chip manufacturing process, comprises the steps of a) receiving a specification of positions (x,y) of a electrically conductive elements in the chip die, the positions having a first coordinate along a first direction (x) and a second coordinate (y) along a second direction in a plane defined by the chip die, said first and second direction being mutually transverse to each other, b) selecting a cluster of positions that is within a predetermined two-dimensional spatial range, wherein each pair of positions in the cluster at least has a first minimum difference in their first coordinates or a second minimum difference in their second coordinates and removing the next position from the ordered set, c) update the positions of the set of positions in accordance with an expected time needed to carry out the treatment for said cluster and a speed of a wafer comprising the chip die, d) repeating steps b-d until each of the positions in said set is assigned to a cluster.