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10 December 2024 Non-destructive measurement of temperature in the micro-area wafer using Mueller matrix spectroscopic ellipsometry
Qimeng Sun, Xing Jin, Bingxu Ma, Zhidan Lei, Xiaoli Liu, Jun Peng, Lin Yang
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Proceedings Volume 13423, Eighth International Workshop on Advanced Patterning Solutions (IWAPS 2024); 1342310 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3052989
Event: 8th International Workshop on Advanced Patterning Solutions (IWAPS 2024), 2024, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China
Abstract
As the number of 3D stacking layers continues to increase and the thermal design power of logic chips escalates, thermal management is confronted with unprecedented challenges. The temperature of the surface to be treated is also a parameter that is difficult to measure non-invasively. The standard technique is infrared (IR) pyrometry. However, due to the transparency of Si wafers in the IR spectrum, it cannot be used in the low-temperature regime (0°C ~ 400°C). In this study, a new low-temperature thermal measurement method was developed, utilizing Mueller Matrix Spectroscopic Ellipsometry (MMSE) combined with Thermo-Optical Coefficients (TOC). Firstly, the coefficients of the Cauchy dispersion equation for Si-based SiO2 films were measured at different temperatures. The experimental results indicated that the refractive index of SiO2 films exhibits high sensitivity to temperature in the ultraviolet to visible spectra. Subsequently, MMSE was combined with deep learning to reverse characterize the temperature in the chip overlay region. The results indicated that effective Mueller matrix elements and multi-channel deep learning could accurately identify the temperature in the overlay region, with an accuracy of 99.81% and a recognition precision of 1K. The proposed method contributes to optimizing automatic process control, alleviating wafer deformation and overlay errors caused by thermal management, thereby enhancing the reliability of high-bandwidth memory.
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Qimeng Sun, Xing Jin, Bingxu Ma, Zhidan Lei, Xiaoli Liu, Jun Peng, and Lin Yang "Non-destructive measurement of temperature in the micro-area wafer using Mueller matrix spectroscopic ellipsometry", Proc. SPIE 13423, Eighth International Workshop on Advanced Patterning Solutions (IWAPS 2024), 1342310 (10 December 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3052989
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KEYWORDS
Temperature metrology
Mueller matrices
Semiconducting wafers
Refractive index
Deep learning
Spectroscopic ellipsometry
Reliability
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