Use of 22 nm Litho SEM non-visual defect data as a process quality indicator

Author(s):  
C. A. Boye ◽  
C. J. Penny ◽  
J. Connors ◽  
D. Boyles ◽  
C. Janicki ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-487
Author(s):  
Carol A. Boye ◽  
Seth Knupp ◽  
Rajesh Ghaskadvi

2014 ◽  
Vol 62 (8) ◽  
pp. 1442-1450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillian Min ◽  
David Reuben ◽  
Arun Karlamangla ◽  
Arash Naeim ◽  
Katherine Prenovost ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 129 ◽  
pp. 03026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleg Filipovich ◽  
Vadim Kopp ◽  
Nataliya Voloshina ◽  
Alexander Bokhonsky

Author(s):  
Yuk L. Tsang ◽  
Alex VanVianen ◽  
Xiang D. Wang ◽  
N. David Theodore

Abstract In this paper, we report a device model that has successfully described the characteristics of an anomalous CMOS NFET and led to the identification of a non-visual defect. The model was based on detailed electrical characterization of a transistor exhibiting a threshold voltage (Vt) of about 120mv lower than normal and also exhibiting source to drain leakage. Using a simple graphical simulation, we predicted that the anomalous device was a transistor in parallel with a resistor. It was proposed that the resistor was due to a counter doping defect. This was confirmed using Scanning Capacitance Microscopy (SCM). The dopant defect was shown by TEM imaging to be caused by a crystalline silicon dislocation.


Author(s):  
Yuk L. Tsang ◽  
Xiang D. Wang ◽  
Reyhan Ricklefs ◽  
Jason Goertz

Abstract In this paper, we report a transistor model that has successfully led to the identification of a non visual defect. This model was based on detailed electrical characterization of a MOS NFET exhibiting a threshold voltage (Vt) of just about 40mv lower than normal. This small Vt delta was based on standard graphical extrapolation method in the usual linear Id-Vg plots. We observed, using a semilog plot, two slopes in the Id-Vg curves with Vt delta magnified significantly in the subthreshold region. The two slopes were attributed to two transistors in parallel with different Vts. We further found that one of the parallel transistors had short channel effect due to a punch-through mechanism. It was proposed and ultimately confirmed the cause was due to a dopant defect using scanning capacitance microscopy (SCM) technique.


2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Rudin ◽  
Thomas Butcher ◽  
Henry Troost
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