COORDINATE FUSION AND THICKNESS CALIBRATION FOR SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER EDGE INSPECTION

Patent №

US 8,629,902

Granted

2014-01-14

Filed 2010

Owner

KLA-TENCOR CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12902673

A system may include a support configured to rotatably support a wafer. The system may also include an imager for generating an image of a wafer, where the image includes a first coordinate reference. The system may also include a profiler for generating a profile of the wafer, where the profile includes a second coordinate reference. The system may further include control programming for locating at least one structural feature of an edge of the wafer recognizable by both the imager and the profiler for allowing the first coordinate reference to be mapped to the second coordinate reference. The wafer used in calibration may have discrete edge features detectable in an edge imager and in an edge profiler.

VisionG01N 21/956G06T 7/0006G06T 7/60G06T 2207/30148

AI classification

Vision0.99
AI hardware0.02
Knowledge representation0.02
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

KLA-TENCOR CORPORATION

assignment · 251270706

Assignors

LEWIS, ISABELLA T., WIHL, TIM S.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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