WO2011125925A1 - 検査方法およびその装置 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for inspecting a defect and a circuit pattern on a sample using an image acquisition means.
- various inspection / measurement devices have been introduced into the production line.
- a plurality of wafers or chips are created by intentionally changing the process conditions in order to quickly determine the process conditions capable of forming a desired circuit pattern.
- the inspection is performed, and the process conditions are determined based on the inspection result.
- wafer inspection at the mass production stage is performed for the purpose of process monitoring. That is, in the middle of wafer manufacturing, the wafer is sampled and inspected to determine whether there is a defect on the wafer surface or whether there is an abnormality in the circuit pattern formed on the wafer surface. As a result of the inspection, if a defect or an abnormal circuit pattern is detected, the cause is investigated and necessary countermeasures are taken.
- Patent Document 1 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-97869
- Patent Document 2 an optical image of a wafer surface is captured by bright field illumination, and a defect is inspected by comparison with an image of a non-defective part (for example, an image of an adjacent chip).
- Technology is disclosed.
- such an optical inspection apparatus is affected by the illumination wavelength, and the resolution limit of an acquired image is about several hundred nanometers. Therefore, it is only possible to detect the presence or absence of defects on the order of several tens of nanometers on the wafer, and when a detailed defect analysis is performed, a defect observation apparatus or the like having a higher imaging resolution is required separately.
- a scanning electron microscope (SEM: Scanning Electron Microscope) type inspection apparatus is also known as a wafer inspection apparatus other than the optical type.
- This apparatus performs inspection by irradiating an inspection site on a wafer with an electron beam and comparing an image obtained by detecting secondary electrons or the like generated therefrom with an image of a non-defective site.
- the SEM inspection apparatus can increase the image resolution to the order of nanometers, and can display an optical image such as a contact hole conduction failure that is manifested as a potential on the wafer surface. In this case, it is possible to inspect a defect mode that cannot be revealed.
- Patent Document 2 describes a wafer inspection method using such an SEM type wafer inspection apparatus.
- the observation apparatus is an apparatus that uses the output of the inspection apparatus, images defect coordinates of a wafer with high resolution, and outputs an image.
- the semiconductor manufacturing process has been miniaturized, and accordingly the defect size has reached the order of several tens of nanometers. In order to observe the defects in detail, a resolution of the order of several nanometers is required.
- an observation apparatus using a scanning electron microscope (hereinafter referred to as a review SEM) has been widely used.
- the review SEM is equipped with a defect observation processing (ADR: Automatic Defect Review) function for automatically collecting images at defect coordinates in the sample. Since the defect coordinates output by the inspection device contain errors, ADR redetects the defect from the SEM image that is imaged over a wide field of view centered on the defect coordinate output by the inspection device, and increases the re-detected defect position. Take an image at a magnification.
- ADR Automatic Defect Review
- Patent Document 3 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2007-40910 describes a method for detecting a defect from one image obtained by imaging a defective part.
- pattern measuring devices are used for wafer inspection.
- a CD-SEM Crohn's disease SEM
- the CD-SEM is a device that measures the line width of a circuit pattern on a wafer with sub-nanometer measurement accuracy, and is used particularly for managing a semiconductor exposure process. Register the location to be measured, the circuit pattern template shape (line pattern, hole pattern, etc.) and measurement items (line width, wiring pitch, hole pattern diameter, etc.), etc. Keep it. At the time of measurement, each measurement location is irradiated with an electron beam, secondary electrons and the like generated therefrom are detected, and an image of a circuit pattern to be measured is acquired.
- Patent Document 5 describes a pattern measurement method in this CD-SEM.
- the critical defect size is also miniaturized, and if the sensitivity of the defect inspection device is increased to detect fine defects, manufacturing tolerances that are not inherently defects are detected, It becomes difficult to capture the tendency of defects.
- the optical inspection apparatus Since the optical inspection apparatus has a low resolution of several hundreds of nanometers, it is difficult to discriminate the types of defects with high accuracy even if the defect position can be specified. For this reason, it is necessary to acquire high-accuracy images in an observation apparatus different from the inspection apparatus and classify them by defect type.
- the focal position and exposure amount at the time of exposure are changed in the wafer surface, and the tendency of occurrence of defects and the tendency of the circuit pattern to change are quantified. These operations are performed by detecting defects with an inspection apparatus and measuring the line width with a CD-SEM.
- the present invention provides a method for visualizing the tendency of occurrence of a desired defect in a wafer surface and various shape change trends of a circuit pattern.
- a specified portion of the inspection target is imaged using an image imaging unit, a defect is detected from the captured image, and the image is captured. Recognize the circuit pattern, calculate the feature value related to the image density and shape from the detected defect, calculate the feature value related to the image density and shape from the recognized circuit pattern, and select a specific pattern from the circuit patterns recognized as the detected defect Filters and extracts defects or circuit patterns, determines the feature value to be mapped from the feature values of the specific defect or circuit pattern extracted by filtering, and maps the distribution of the determined feature value on the screen It was made to display with.
- an apparatus for inspecting an inspection target includes an image imaging unit that captures an image of a specified portion of the inspection target, a unit that detects a defect from the captured image, A means for recognizing a circuit pattern from a captured image, a means for calculating a feature amount related to image shading and shape from a detected defect, a means for calculating a feature amount relating to image shading and shape from a recognized circuit pattern, and a defect detection Extracting means for filtering out and extracting a specific defect or circuit pattern from the circuit pattern recognized by the means for recognizing the defect detected by the means for detecting and the circuit pattern, and the specific defect or filtered extracted by the extracting means A feature amount determining means for determining a feature amount to be mapped from among the feature amounts of the circuit pattern, and a feature amount determined by the feature amount determining means. Constructed by a display means for displaying the map format fabric status on the screen.
- the present invention even when a fatal defect and a fatal defect are mixed or when there are a plurality of defects having different reasons for occurrence, only a desired defect is generated in the wafer surface or chip surface. It becomes possible to confirm the frequency and trend. Further, it is possible to visualize the shape change tendency of the circuit pattern in the wafer surface or the chip surface.
- FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a schematic flow of an inspection process according to the first embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the detailed flow of the test
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of an inspection apparatus according to Embodiment 1.
- FIG. It is a coordinate system which shows an example of the imaging location designation
- 1 is a plan view of a wafer showing an example of an imaging location specifying method according to Embodiment 1.
- FIG. FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a non-defective image creation process according to the first embodiment.
- FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a chip showing an example of setting an inspection area according to Example 1; It is a front view of the setting screen of the inspection area concerning Example 1.
- FIG. It is a front view of the parameter setting screen of the defect detection process concerning Example 1.
- FIG. FIG. 6 is a front view of a parameter setting screen for circuit pattern recognition processing according to the first embodiment;
- FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a feature amount calculation process of a defective part according to the first embodiment.
- FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a circuit pattern feature amount calculation process according to the first embodiment; It is a front view of the mapping condition designation
- FIG. It is a partial front view of the screen which shows an example of the display method of the test result concerning Example 1.
- FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a feature amount totaling process according to the second embodiment.
- FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a schematic flow of an inspection process according to Example 3; It is a flowchart which shows the detailed flow of the test
- FIG. FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of an inspection apparatus according to a third embodiment.
- FIG. 10 is a flowchart of inspection condition automatic setting processing according to the third embodiment.
- FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between an imaging location in a chip and a feature amount totaling condition in the determination method of the inspection condition automatic setting process according to the third embodiment. It is a front view of the screen regarding the inspection condition specification concerning Example 3.
- FIG. 2 shows a configuration diagram of the inspection apparatus according to the present invention.
- the apparatus is configured such that an SEM 201 and an inspection unit 202 are connected via a communication unit 203.
- the SEM 201 includes an electron optical system column 204, an SEM control unit 205, a storage unit 206, an input / output interface 207, and an input / output terminal 208.
- the electron optical system column 204 further includes a movable stage 210 on which the sample wafer 209 is mounted and movable in the XY plane, an electron source 211 for irradiating the sample wafer 209 with an electron beam, secondary electrons generated from the sample wafer, and reflections.
- a deflector (not shown) for scanning an electron beam on the sample wafer, and an image generator for digitally converting a signal from the detector 212 to generate a digital image 213 and the like.
- the storage unit 206 includes an imaging condition storage unit 214 that stores the SEM imaging conditions, such as acceleration voltage, probe current, and imaging field of view size, an image storage unit 215 that stores the acquired image data, and a position where the image is captured An imaging position information storage unit 216 that stores information is provided.
- an imaging condition storage unit 214 that stores the SEM imaging conditions, such as acceleration voltage, probe current, and imaging field of view size
- an image storage unit 215 that stores the acquired image data
- An imaging position information storage unit 216 that stores information is provided.
- the SEM control unit 205 is a part that controls processing such as image acquisition in the SEM 201.
- the movable stage 210 is moved to bring a predetermined inspection site on the sample wafer 209 into the imaging field, the electron beam is irradiated onto the sample wafer 209, and an image of data detected by the detector 212.
- storage in the image storage unit 215 are performed.
- Various instructions from an operator and designation of imaging conditions are performed through an input / output terminal 208 including a keyboard, a mouse, a display, and the like.
- the inspection unit 202 is a part that performs an inspection process on a captured image obtained by imaging the sample wafer 09 with the SEM 201.
- the inspection unit 202 includes an inspection unit control unit 217 that controls the entire inspection unit 202, an image processing unit 218 that performs various calculations on the image and calculates a feature value, and a filtering that extracts a specific pattern from the calculated feature value.
- the inspection information storage unit 222 stores an inspection area information storage unit 225 that stores information on a non-defective image necessary for the inspection process and information on the inspection area associated therewith, and image processing that stores various parameters when performing operations on the image.
- the feature amount storage unit 228 stores the amount.
- FIG. 1A the outline
- an SEM image of the sample wafer 209 is acquired by the SEM 201 (S11).
- the acquired SEM image is processed by the inspection unit 202 to detect a defect (S12), and a wiring pattern in the SEM image is detected (S13).
- the defect detection process and the wiring pattern detection process may be processed sequentially or in parallel. In the figure, the case of processing in parallel is shown.
- a filtering process is performed on the detected defect image and wiring pattern image to classify the defect and pattern (S14), a feature amount is calculated from an image of a desired defect or wiring pattern (S15), and the calculated result
- the mapping is displayed based on (S16), and the process is terminated.
- a sample wafer 209 to be inspected is set on the stage 210 (S101).
- the imaging location of the inspection target wafer 209 is designated (S102).
- the imaging location is usually a location called a danger point.
- a danger point is a portion that is easily affected by fluctuations in exposure conditions and other process conditions when forming a circuit pattern, and a defect that causes a chip defect is likely to occur.
- the risk point can be predicted by a process simulator or the like.
- As the imaging location a point predicted by the process simulator as dangerous may be specified, or a location considered dangerous from the user's experience may be specified. Moreover, you may designate an imaging location arbitrarily other than a danger point.
- a semiconductor wafer has multiple layouts of the same circuit pattern on a chip basis. If the purpose is to evaluate the occurrence of defects and the fluctuation of circuit patterns on the wafer surface, all chips are not necessarily inspected. do not have to. Therefore, the coordinates to be imaged may be given as chip coordinates as shown in FIG. 3, and the chip to be imaged may be selected as shown in FIG.
- an SEM image of a location designated by the SEM 201 is acquired (S103).
- the SEM control unit 205 reads the imaging conditions (for example, acceleration voltage, probe current, number of added frames, etc.) from the imaging condition storage unit 214, controls the stage 210 to a position where the designated location can be imaged, and irradiates from the electron gun 211.
- the electron beam is scanned in the imaging field, secondary electrons and reflected electrons generated from the sample 209 are detected by the detector 212, an analog signal is converted into a digital signal in the image generation unit 213, and an image is stored in the image storage unit 215. save.
- FIG. 5 shows a GUI 500 (hereinafter referred to as an inspection condition setting GUI 500) for designating inspection conditions, and includes an acquired image display area 501 for displaying a list of acquired images.
- an inspection condition setting GUI 500 for designating inspection conditions
- a non-defective image is designated from a plurality of captured images displayed in the acquired image display area 501 of the inspection condition setting GUI 500 (S104). Since the non-defective image is used for detecting a defect by a comparative inspection from the captured image to be inspected, the pattern is formed as intended, and it is necessary that the image does not include a defect. In general, in an inspection on a mass production line after the manufacturing process is established, it is considered that a non-defective image is included in the captured image. For example, if the circuit pattern is normally formed at the center of the wafer surface, but the pattern becomes thinner at the outer periphery of the wafer due to out of focus during the exposure process due to the warpage of the wafer, etc. What is necessary is just to designate the image which imaged as a good quality image. In this case, the specification is completed by selecting a non-defective image from the image list of the inspection condition setting GUI and pressing the registration button 502.
- the composition processing flow is shown in FIG. First, a plurality of images are aligned (S601).
- the stage is moved to a designated location, the stage movement error is measured, the scanning range of the electron beam is determined based on the measured result, and an image is acquired, so that positioning can be performed with high accuracy.
- the imaging position differs slightly between images due to a survey error of stage movement error or the like. Therefore, alignment is performed by image processing so that circuit patterns and the like in the image overlap.
- an average image having an average gray value is created from a plurality of images (S602).
- the gray value in the defective part is averaged with the pixels in the normal part, and it is possible to create an image in which the defect is not manifested.
- the non-defective image can be stored in the image storage unit 215 with a name by pressing the save button 504, and can be read from the image storage unit 215 with a name specified by pressing the read button 505. Is possible. As a result, it is possible to designate an image captured with another wafer as a non-defective image.
- inspection area information is set (S105).
- the inspection area information is information on an area defined by the user within the field of view of the non-defective image, and is used as a filtering condition.
- FIG. 7 shows an example of setting inspection area information.
- the non-defective image 701 includes circuit patterns having different structures such as a vertical direction and a horizontal direction.
- the reason for the occurrence of defects differs between the vertical and horizontal circuit patterns, it is important to create a wafer map in which the number of defects is plotted for each circuit pattern direction.
- FIG. 7 shows a GUI for setting the inspection area information. This GUI is called by pressing an area setting button 503 of the inspection condition setting GUI (FIG. 5).
- This GUI includes an interface 801 for displaying a non-defective image set in S104, an interface 802 for adding or deleting area information, and various tool buttons 803 for defining areas.
- the user defines an area by selecting an appropriate shape setting tool from a tool button according to the shape of the area to be defined, and specifying coordinates on a non-defective image using a mouse or the like.
- the method of defining the area may be other than the one that focuses on the direction of the circuit pattern.
- the memory cell part and the logic part may be separately specified, or the test pattern area or the dummy pattern area may be specified. good.
- image processing parameters of “defect detection” and “circuit pattern recognition” are set and adjusted (S106).
- 9 and 10 are GUIs for adjusting image processing parameters, which are displayed by pressing a parameter setting button 506 in the inspection condition setting GUI (FIG. 5).
- the image processing parameter adjustment GUI it is possible to switch and display the parameter adjustment screen related to “defect detection” and “circuit pattern recognition” by tab display or the like, and FIG. 9 shows that the parameter adjustment screen related to “defect detection” is selected. It is a state that has been.
- the defect detection parameter adjustment screen includes an interface (901 to 903) for displaying a non-defective image, an image to be inspected, and an image of a defect detection result, and an interface 904 for changing a defect detection algorithm and adjusting a parameter value.
- a defect detection result an area extracted as a defect is displayed in white. Note that highlighting may be performed by changing the display color of the area detected as a defect on the inspection image. Further, when the defect detection algorithm or the parameter value is adjusted, the defect detection process may be executed and the result may be reflected on the display on the GUI. This makes it possible to check the parameter adjustment result in real time, and facilitate parameter adjustment.
- FIG. 10 shows a state in which the tab of the parameter adjustment screen related to “circuit pattern recognition” is selected in the image processing parameter adjustment screen. Similar to the parameter adjustment screen for “defect detection”, the interface (1001 to 1003) for displaying the non-defective image, the image to be inspected, and the image of the circuit pattern recognition result, the change of the circuit pattern recognition algorithm, and the parameter value are adjusted.
- the interface 1004 is provided.
- the circuit pattern area recognized as the circuit pattern recognition result is displayed in white and the base area is displayed in black. Further, when the circuit pattern recognition algorithm or the parameter value is adjusted, the circuit pattern recognition process may be executed and the result may be reflected on the GUI display.
- the parameter values relating to the “defect detection” and “circuit pattern recognition” processing set as described above and information about the selected algorithm are stored in the image processing parameter storage unit 226.
- the image processing unit 218 When the process execution button 507 on the inspection condition setting GUI 500 shown in FIG. 5 is pressed, the image processing unit 218 performs defect detection processing (S107), circuit pattern recognition processing (S108), and defect feature amount on the inspection image. A calculation process (S109) and a circuit pattern feature amount calculation process (S110) are executed. At this time, since the defect detection process (S107) and the circuit pattern recognition process (S108) are independent, they may be executed in parallel. By executing in parallel, the processing time can be shortened.
- the defect detection process (S107) is a process for detecting a defective part from the inspected image of the sample wafer 209 acquired by the SEM 201.
- a method for detecting a defect a method for detecting a defective part by comparing a non-defective image with an image to be inspected may be used.
- Patent Document 3 describes a method of calculating a difference after aligning a non-defective image and an image to be inspected, and detecting a region where the difference value is a certain value or more as a defect.
- Patent Document 4 describes a method for estimating a non-defective image using a cyclic periodicity of a circuit pattern included in an inspected image and detecting a defect.
- the circuit pattern recognition process is a process for detecting a circuit pattern from a non-defective image and an image to be inspected.
- the circuit pattern here refers to a structure formed on a semiconductor wafer, such as a wiring, a hole, or a semiconductor element.
- a method of recognizing a circuit pattern a part where the gray value changes suddenly in the image is extracted as the outline of the circuit pattern, and the internal area of the circuit pattern is specified based on the gray value or the changing direction of the gray value.
- a method of recognizing or a method of recognizing a circuit pattern region based on a gray value in an image may be used.
- the circuit pattern in the image may be recognized using design information describing the layout information of the circuit pattern of the semiconductor product to be inspected.
- FIG. 11 shows a method of defect feature amount calculation (S109).
- the defect feature amount calculation processing the feature amount is calculated for each detected defect using the non-defective image 1101, the inspection image 1102, the defect detection result, and the inspection area information 1104 set in S104 as input (1105).
- the inspection image 1102 the inspection image 1102, the defect detection result, and the inspection area information 1104 set in S104 as input (1105).
- four defects are detected, and a feature amount is calculated for each defect (1106).
- FIG. 12 shows a circuit pattern feature amount calculation (S110) method. Similar to the defect feature amount calculation processing, the non-defective product image 1201, the inspected image 1202, the circuit pattern recognition result 1203, and the inspection area information 1204 are input, and the feature amount is calculated for each recognized circuit pattern (1205). For example, when n circuit patterns are extracted, feature amounts are calculated for the n circuit patterns (1206). Note that the types of feature values calculated in the defect feature value calculation process and the circuit pattern feature value calculation process may not be the same.
- a filtering condition and a feature amount totaling condition are set (S111 to S116), and a wafer map is created.
- This GUI 1300 includes an interface 1301 for setting filtering conditions, an interface 1302 for checking filtering results, an interface 1303 for setting feature amount totaling conditions, and an interface 1304 for displaying a created wafer map.
- An interface 1305 for displaying a histogram of feature amounts is provided.
- the set filtering condition and the feature amount totaling condition are combined into a mapping condition, and a mapping condition is saved in the storage unit by naming the mapping condition by pressing the save button 1306, and the mapping condition saved by pressing the read button 1307. It is possible to read by specifying the name.
- the filtering conditions are set (S111). Filtering is performed to extract only specific defects and circuit patterns from a plurality of types of defects and circuit patterns included in the image. For example, when a short defect and an open defect are mixed in an image and the reason for the occurrence of each defect is different, it is important to count the number separately. Therefore, for example, only open defects are extracted by filtering, and it is possible to confirm the tendency of occurrence of defects in the wafer surface.
- the filtering condition setting interface 1301 as the filtering condition designation, first, whether the target is “defect” or “circuit pattern” is selected.
- the interface 1301 for setting the filtering condition includes an interface 13011 for specifying the inspection area set in S104, and an interface for defining the conditional expression for the feature amount 13012 and an interface 13013 that defines how to combine the defined conditional expressions with logical expressions.
- filtering may be performed by a method of setting a threshold value for a feature quantity represented by a linear sum of each feature quantity
- Filtering may be performed by setting a non-linear discrimination plane in the feature amount space.
- the inspection unit control unit 217 reflects the result on the filtering result confirmation interface 1302 on the GUI 1300.
- the filtering result is displayed by highlighting the defect or circuit pattern extracted by filtering with a frame, or by changing the display color of the extracted defect or circuit pattern and the defect or circuit pattern not extracted. Just do it. This makes it possible to set the filtering condition while looking at the result, and the condition setting becomes easy.
- the feature amount aggregation is a process of calculating the feature amount displayed on the wafer map 1304 from the feature amount of the defect or circuit pattern extracted by filtering.
- the defect feature amount calculation step S109 and the circuit pattern feature amount calculation step S110 described above the feature amount is calculated for each of the extracted defects and circuit patterns, but when displayed on the wafer map 1304, the feature amount is calculated. In some cases, it is necessary to calculate a feature amount for one chip, and it is necessary to calculate a feature amount to be mapped from a plurality of defects or circuit patterns in one chip.
- the feature amount totaling condition is set by the interface 1303 for setting the feature amount totaling condition.
- a feature amount to be mapped from the calculated feature amounts is set.
- one of “average / total / standard deviation / maximum value / minimum value” is selected as the aggregation method 13032.
- “line width” may be selected as the total feature amount 13031 and “average” may be selected as the total method 13032.
- standard deviation is selected as the aggregation method 13032, it is possible to display the line width variation in the in-plane circuit pattern on the wafer map 1304.
- the inspection unit control unit 217 uses the feature amount totaling processing unit 220 to show the calculated feature amount based on the set feature amount totaling condition 220 as shown in FIG.
- the feature amount is calculated for each chip (S114).
- the calculated feature quantity is stored in the feature quantity storage unit 228 (S115) and used for displaying the wafer map 1304 (S116).
- the wafer map 1304 represents the size of the feature amount.
- the size may be represented by changing the display color 1401 as shown in FIG. 14, or the size 1501 of the figure as shown in FIG.
- the size may be expressed by changing the size, or the size may be expressed using a three-dimensional graph 1601 as shown in FIG.
- the inspection apparatus includes a condition-specific display GUI 1700 that displays the wafer maps created under a plurality of mapping conditions side by side on the input / output terminal 224 (FIG. 17).
- a condition-specific display GUI 1700 that displays the wafer maps created under a plurality of mapping conditions side by side on the input / output terminal 224 (FIG. 17).
- the corresponding mapping condition is read, a wafer map is created, and displayed on the interface 1702 for displaying a list of wafer maps.
- the GUI 1700 includes an interface 1703 that compares and displays the number of defects or circuit patterns that match the filtering condition between different mapping conditions. Thereby, for example, the number of short defects and the number of foreign matter defects can be compared.
- defects or circuit patterns are extracted from captured images, their feature amounts are calculated, only the defects or circuit patterns specified by the user are extracted by filtering processing, and the feature amounts specified by the user are wafered. Explained how to display on the map.
- the inspection method for displaying the feature amount on the wafer map as the inspection result has been described.
- the feature amount is mapped to each imaging location in the chip as shown in FIG. An inspection method for visualizing the variation tendency in the chip with respect to the number and the shape change tendency of the circuit pattern will be described.
- the inspection flow according to the present embodiment is the same as the flow of FIG. 1A and FIG. 1B described in the first embodiment, and the apparatus configuration is the same as that of FIG. 2, but the feature amount counting method in S114 and the display method in S116 are different. Different. Only the parts different from the first embodiment will be described below.
- the feature amounts are totaled in S114, the feature amounts are totaled for each chip in Example 1 as shown in FIG. In the second embodiment, the totalization is performed for each imaging location in the chip as shown in FIG.
- the method for specifying the feature amount totaling method is the same as in the first embodiment.
- the size of the feature amount is expressed by changing the display color.
- the size is changed by changing the size of the figure as shown in FIG. Or may be expressed using a three-dimensional graph as shown in FIG.
- a defect occurrence tendency and a circuit pattern shape change tendency in a wafer surface or a chip surface are visualized by displaying the calculated feature amount based on a mapping condition designated by the user.
- the feature amount to be calculated is several tens to several hundreds, it is difficult to set conditions for creating a map that can grasp the tendency of a critical defect or a circuit pattern.
- a method for automatically calculating mapping condition candidates will be described.
- FIG. 21A the outline
- an SEM image of the sample wafer 209 is acquired by the SEM 201 (S21).
- the acquired SEM image is processed by the inspection unit 202 to detect a defect (S22), and a wiring pattern in the SEM image is detected (S23).
- the defect detection process and the wiring pattern detection process may be processed sequentially or in parallel. In the figure, the case of processing in parallel is shown. The flow up to this point is the same as that of the first embodiment described with reference to FIG. 1A.
- a condition for mapping the detected defect image and wiring pattern image is set (S24), a feature amount is calculated and stored from the image of a desired defect or wiring pattern (S25), and the calculated feature amount is set.
- the mapping is displayed based on the mapping condition (S26), and the process is terminated.
- Steps S2101 to S2110 of the processing flow shown in FIG. 21B are the same as S101 to S110 in the processing flow shown in FIG. 1B of the inspection method in the first and second embodiments as described above.
- mapping condition candidates are automatically calculated (S2111).
- the user determines whether or not there is a map representing a desired trend in the wafer surface from among the automatically calculated mapping condition candidates (S2112). If there is a map, the condition is selected ( If it does not exist, the mapping condition is designated again (S2114).
- the mapping condition designation in S2114 is performed in the same manner as the mapping condition designation (S111 to S114) in the first and second embodiments.
- Steps S2115 to S2117 are the same as S115 to S117 in the first and second embodiments.
- FIG. 22 shows an apparatus configuration according to the third embodiment.
- the apparatus configuration shown in FIG. 22 includes a mapping condition candidate calculation unit 2201 in addition to the apparatus configurations according to the first and second embodiments.
- the same reference numerals are given to the same portions as those in the configuration shown in FIG. 22
- the defect or circuit pattern to be extracted is designated on the GUI 2500 shown in FIG. 25 (S2301).
- an interface 2503 capable of defining one or more defect types to be extracted using an input means such as a mouse on the inspection image is provided.
- reference numeral 2501 denotes an interface for emphasizing and displaying the inspection image, the defect detection result, and the selected defect, and the defect area extracted on the inspection image and the display color of the selected defect are changed or a frame is displayed. Display with etc.
- the user selects the pattern selection tool 2502 and clicks a defect to be extracted on the image 2501.
- a plurality of defect types to be extracted can be defined, and can be added and deleted in the interface 2503.
- FIG. 25 shows the selection method related to the defect, but the circuit pattern can also be specified by the same method.
- a filtering condition candidate for extracting only the designated defect or circuit pattern is calculated (S2302).
- this method for example, a method for independently calculating a threshold for separating the extraction target pattern and the non-extraction target pattern for each feature amount, or an identification for separating the extraction target pattern and the non-extraction target pattern in the feature amount space
- a method of calculating the surface using a general supervised learning method is conceivable.
- a feature amount totaling condition candidate is calculated for each filtering condition (S2303).
- a wafer map is created for all the feature amount totaling conditions for each imaging location in the chip, and a feature amount that shows the same change tendency without depending on the imaging location. Find the aggregation conditions.
- the feature amount totaling condition 1 shows the same change tendency without depending on the imaging location, but the feature amount totaling condition 2 changes the tendency of the wafer map due to the difference in the imaging location.
- the feature amount aggregation condition represents a change trend in the wafer surface
- the trend of the wafer map should not change due to the difference in the imaging location
- the feature amount aggregation condition where the trend of the wafer map changes due to the difference in the imaging location. Is excluded from the candidates.
- the similarity of wafer maps can be quantified by calculating a correlation coefficient.
- FIG. 26 shows a GUI 2600 for confirming the mapping condition candidate created in S2112.
- the user selects one or more defects or circuit patterns designated by the interface 2503 on the GUI 2500 in FIG. 25 from the interface 2601.
- one of the filtering condition candidates automatically set using the interface 2602 is selected, and the filtering condition and the filtering result are confirmed using the interfaces 2603 and 2604.
- An interface 2605 is an interface for displaying a wafer map created by using automatically set feature amount totaling condition candidates, and the user selects a feature amount totaling condition for obtaining a desired wafer map from the interface 2605.
- the present invention is used in a process of inspecting a circuit pattern formed on a semiconductor wafer using an image acquisition means in a semiconductor wafer production line.
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最初に、SEM201で試料ウェハ209のSEM画像を取得する(S11)。次に、この取得したSEM画像を検査ユニット202で処理して、欠陥を検出し(S12)、SEM画像中の配線パターンを検出する(S13)。この欠陥検出処理と配線パターン検出処理とは順次処理しても良く、また、並列に処理しても良い。図では、並列に処理する場合について示している。次に、検出した欠陥画像及び配線パターン画像に対してフィルタリング処理を行って欠陥及びパターンを分類し(S14)、所望の欠陥又は配線パターンの画像から特徴量を算出し(S15)、算出した結果に基づいてマッピング表示して(S16)処理を終了する。
最初に、SEM201で試料ウェハ209のSEM画像を取得する(S21)。次に、この取得したSEM画像を検査ユニット202で処理して、欠陥を検出し(S22)、SEM画像中の配線パターンを検出する(S23)。この欠陥検出処理と配線パターン検出処理とは順次処理しても良く、また、並列に処理しても良い。図では、並列に処理する場合について示している。ここまでのフローは、図1Aで説明した実施例1の場合と同じである。次に、検出した欠陥画像及び配線パターン画像をマッピングする条件を設定し(S24)、所望の欠陥又は配線パターンの画像から特徴量を算出して保存し(S25)、算出した特徴量を設定したマッピング条件に基づいてマッピング表示して(S26)処理を終了する。
図21Bに示した処理フローのS2101~S2110は、前記したように実施例1および実施例2における検査方法の図1Bに示した処理フローにおけるS101~S110と同一である。
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- 被検査対象を検査する方法であって、
被検査対象の指定箇所について画像撮像手段を用いて撮像するステップと、
撮像した画像から欠陥を検出するステップと、
撮像した画像から回路パターンを認識するステップと、
検出した欠陥から画像濃淡および形状に関する特徴量を算出するステップと、
認識した回路パターンから画像濃淡および形状に関する特徴量を算出するステップと、
前記検出した欠陥と前記認識した回路パターンの中から特定の欠陥又は回路パターンをフィルタリングして抽出するステップと、
該フィルタリングして抽出された特定の欠陥又は回路パターンの特徴量の中からマッピングする特徴量を決定するステップと、
該決定した特徴量の分布状況を画面上にマップ形式で表示するステップと
を含むことを特徴とする検査方法。 - 前記フィルタリングして抽出するステップにおいて、フィルタリングする条件は、画面上で設定された条件であることを特徴とする請求項1記載の検査方法。
- 前記マッピングする特徴量を決定するステップにおいて、前記特徴量は、画面上で設定されたものであることを特徴とする請求項1記載の検査方法。
- 前記画面上にマップ形式で表示するステップにおいて、被検査対象上に複数形成されたチップごと、又はチップ内の小領域ごとに前記マッピングする特徴量を決定するステップにおいて決定された特徴量を集計した結果をマップ形式で表示することを特徴とする請求項1記載の検査方法。
- 前記画面上に表示するマップ形式が、ウェハマップであることを特徴とする請求項1記載の検査方法。
- 前記画面上に表示するマップ形式が、チップ内のマップであることを特徴とする請求項1記載の検査方法。
- 前記フィルタリングして抽出するステップにおいて、フィルタリングする条件は、画面上で指定された欠陥もしくは回路パターンを抽出するように設定された条件であることを特徴とする請求項1記載の検査方法。
- 被検査対象を検査する装置であって、
被検査対象の指定箇所の画像を撮像する画像撮像手段と、
撮像した画像から欠陥を検出する手段と、
撮像した画像から回路パターンを認識する手段と、
検出した欠陥から画像濃淡および形状に関する特徴量を算出する手段と、
認識した回路パターンから画像濃淡および形状に関する特徴量を算出する手段と、
前記欠陥を検出する手段で検出した欠陥と前記回路パターンを認識する手段で認識した回路パターンの中から特定の欠陥又は回路パターンをフィルタリングして抽出する抽出手段と、
該抽出手段でフィルタリングして抽出された特定の欠陥又は回路パターンの特徴量の中からマッピングする特徴量を決定する特徴量決定手段と、
該特徴量決定手段で決定した特徴量の分布状況を画面上にマップ形式で表示する表示手段と
を含むことを特徴とする検査装置。 - 前記抽出手段においてフィルタリングする条件は、画面上で設定された条件であることを特徴とする請求項8記載の検査装置。
- 前記特徴量決定手段で決定するマッピングする特徴量は、画面上で設定されたものであることを特徴とする請求項8記載の検査装置。
- 前記表示手段は、被検査対象上に複数形成されたチップごと、又はチップ内の小領域ごとに前記マッピングする特徴量を決定するステップにおいて決定された特徴量を集計した結果をマップ形式で表示することを特徴とする請求項8記載の検査装置。
- 前記表示手段が画面上に表示するマップ形式は、ウェハマップであることを特徴とする請求項8記載の検査装置。
- 前記表示手段が画面上に表示するマップ形式は、チップ内のマップであることを特徴とする請求項8記載の検査装置。
- 前記抽出手段でフィルタリングする条件は、画面上で指定された欠陥もしくは回路パターンを抽出するように設定された条件であることを特徴とする請求項8記載の検査装置。
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