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Fault Detection Using the k-Nearest Neighbor Rule for Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes

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Abstract
It has been recognized that effective fault detection techniques can help semiconductor manufacturers reduce scrap, increase equipment uptime, and reduce the usage of test wafers. Traditional univariate statistical process control charts
have long been used for fault detection. Recently, multivariate statistical fault detection methods such as principal component analysis (PCA)-based methods have drawn increasing interest in the semiconductor manufacturing industry. However, the unique characteristics of the semiconductor processes, such as nonlinearity in most batch processes, multimodal batch trajectories due to product mix, and process steps with variable durations, have posed some difficulties to the PCA-based methods. To explicitly account for these unique characteristics, a fault detection method using the k-nearest neighbor rule (FD-kNN) is developed in this paper. Because in fault detection faults are usually not identified and characterized beforehand, in this paper the traditional kNN algorithm is adapted such that only normal operation data is needed. Because the developed method makes use of the kNN
rule, which is a nonlinear classifier, it naturally handles possible nonlinearity in the data. Also, because the FD-kNN method makes decisions based on small local neighborhoods of similar batches, it is well suited for multimodal cases. Another feature of the proposed FD-kNN method, which is essential for online fault detection, is that the data preprocessing is performed automatically without human intervention. These capabilities of the developed FD-kNN method are demonstrated by simulated illustrative examples as well as an industrial example.

Index Terms—Fault detection, k-nearest neighbor rule, pattern recognition, semiconductor manufacturing, statistical process monitoring.

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Judul Seri

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, VOL. 20, NO. 4, NOVEMBER 2007

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Penerbit

: IEEE., 2007

Deskripsi Fisik

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, VOL. 20, NO. 4, NOVEMBER 2007

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English

ISBN/ISSN

0894-6507

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VOL. 20, NO. 4, NOVEMBER 2007

Subjek

SEMIKONDUKTOR

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