Yu-Pu Yang, Hsiao-Han Lo, Wei-Lun Chen, Song-Ho Wang, T. Lu, Hsueh-Er Chang, Peter j. Wang, Walter Lai, Y. Fuh, Tomi T. T. Li
{"title":"Machine Learning Assisted In-Situ Sensing and Detection on System of PECVD Depositing Hydrogenated Silicon Films","authors":"Yu-Pu Yang, Hsiao-Han Lo, Wei-Lun Chen, Song-Ho Wang, T. Lu, Hsueh-Er Chang, Peter j. Wang, Walter Lai, Y. Fuh, Tomi T. T. Li","doi":"10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461536","url":null,"abstract":"Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) is commonly known to be used in the field of silicon thin-film solar systems for the application of nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si:H) film. The chemical deposition is a rather lengthy process, and it is difficult to determine the crystallization and crystalline phase of the thin film prior to X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements. In this study, we are trying to analyze the spectral data collected by optical emission spectroscopy (OES) to find out there is any correlation between OES data and crystalline status. We used machine learning onto an in-situ detection tool to forecast this correlation. The collected large-scale OES spectral data obtained via principal component analysis (PCA) was used for the prediction of the crystalline phase in films without necessary experiments performed afterwards. Therefore, this method can be applicable to the field of thin film deposition for the detection of properties on thin films.","PeriodicalId":186529,"journal":{"name":"2021 China Semiconductor Technology International Conference (CSTIC)","volume":"77 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133088679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ping Wang, Mason Zhang, Zhiqiang Bai, Haixia Guo, Eng-Keong Tan
{"title":"Wi-Fi 6E Test Challenges on ATE","authors":"Ping Wang, Mason Zhang, Zhiqiang Bai, Haixia Guo, Eng-Keong Tan","doi":"10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461416","url":null,"abstract":"Wi-Fi 6E is the latest WLAN standard in the market. With the new benefits of Gigabit data rate, higher capacity with resource management as well as low latency. To accomplish this, it deploys up to 160MHz bandwidth, new extended spectrum above 6GHz and the most complex digital modulation, 1024QAM, which helps to increase throughput and relieve the lack of frequency resource. Wi-Fi 6E brings with it many test challenges. Traditional RF Automated Test Equipment (ATE) only operates up to 6GHz, and cannot address the up to 8GHz spectrum of Wi-Fi 6E. The complex modulation of 1024QAM, will requires new demodulation algorithm and requires more stringent limits. The wider BW (bandwidth) of 160MHz is also a test challenge. The complex and strict requirements bring huge challenge to ATE. In this paper, a low cost and comprehensive test solution will be shown. Test methodology, test strategy and through-put enhancement will be also be shared. Wi-Fi 6E test plan will be introduced and test solution for complicated test modules will be explained.","PeriodicalId":186529,"journal":{"name":"2021 China Semiconductor Technology International Conference (CSTIC)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133273277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Janifer Liu, P. Li, R. Qiu, H. Zhou, K. Yang, C. Xu, E. Wu, L. Du, K. Lin, J. Feng, M. Chi
{"title":"Super Junction by Implant through Trench Contact for Low-Voltage Power MOSFET and IGBT","authors":"Janifer Liu, P. Li, R. Qiu, H. Zhou, K. Yang, C. Xu, E. Wu, L. Du, K. Lin, J. Feng, M. Chi","doi":"10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461552","url":null,"abstract":"Power ICs and devices, as key components for high performance systems with Artificial-Intelligence and Internet-of-Things (AI/IoT) (e.g. Data centers, Smart cars and autonomous driving, Robotics, Industry 4.0, etc.), need superior quality and reliability but also super low on-state resistance (Ron) with good breakdown voltage (BV). This paper briefly describe how to achieve super low Ron for low-voltage (20-40v) power MOSFET and IGBT by implanting through trench contact holes to form p-type pillars as well as floating islands.","PeriodicalId":186529,"journal":{"name":"2021 China Semiconductor Technology International Conference (CSTIC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129505629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Valid Test Pattern Identification for VLSI Adaptive Test","authors":"Tai Song, Tianming Ni, Zhengfeng Huang, Ji Wan","doi":"10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461537","url":null,"abstract":"During manufacturing test, more and more test patterns are added to test set to achieve acceptable defect levels, which seriously affect test cost. This paper proposes a kind of eliminate redundancy pattern method, so that this MRMR (Max-Relevance Min-Redundancy) algorithm which can provide test cost reduction without increasing the defect level obviously. Experiment results demonstrate that the valid test patterns have higher test quality, which can reduce the test time and test cost of the faulty circuit. The algorithm is completely software-based and does not require any additional hardware overhead and is directly compatible with traditional integrated circuit testing process.","PeriodicalId":186529,"journal":{"name":"2021 China Semiconductor Technology International Conference (CSTIC)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127583699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Novel Toffoli Gate Design Using Quantum-dot Cellular Automata","authors":"Huiming Tian, Zhufei Chu","doi":"10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461426","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel reversible Toffoli gate that uses enhanced logic primitives is proposed. These primitives considered are three-input NAND-NOR-Inverter (NNI) gates and five-input majority-of-five gates. The Toffoli gate design is implemented without any inversion operation, which results in area and delay advantages. Furthermore, we adopt the proposed Toffoli gate as the building block to construct a 4–2 reversible priority encoder. Quantum-dot cellular automata technology was used to validate the proposed design. The experimental results show that the proposed design reduces the delay and the area by 46.15% and 28.71%, respectively, compared with the state-of-the-art design.","PeriodicalId":186529,"journal":{"name":"2021 China Semiconductor Technology International Conference (CSTIC)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115615950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optical Proximity Correction, Methodology and Limitations","authors":"Y. Hou, Qiang Wu","doi":"10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461507","url":null,"abstract":"Since the early 2000's, model based Optical Proximity Correction (MB-OPC) has been used by the semiconductor industry to improve the linewidth uniformity and pattern fidelity in photolithography. Designed to be improved from its predecessor, the rule based OPC (RB-OPC), which relies on a table of biases to correct linewidth variation due to Optical Proximity Effect (OPE), it uses aerial image to calculate pattern edge deviation from the design. The flow of the MB-OPC includes the model data collection, model setup and calibration, recipe setup, OPC correction and post-OPC verify check. Since the OPC process also include the addition of assist patterns, such as serif, Sub-Resolution Assist Features (SRAF), and hammer heads, etc., the OPC process can also help improve lithography process window. Albeit above advantages, OPC can have modeling errors which may cause pattern failures and re-toolings. The modeling error is understood to basically originate from non-perfect physical modeling of the lithography process, which implies the need for better modeling. Better modeling includes better photoresist characterization and modeling, better Mask 3D (M3D) scattering effect modeling, and better developing process characterization, etc. It is also related to the quality of patterning process setup, such as the optimization of the substrate film stack, mask bias, and the photoresist process, and Reactive Ion Etch (RIE) bias, etc. Once the OPC model is optimally setup, the correction recipe setup will be less challenging and can focus on difficult areas, such as few line structures, complicated 2D features, etc. In this paper, we propose a methodology in model calibration and recipe setup and will provide recommendation on the effective use of optical proximity correction.","PeriodicalId":186529,"journal":{"name":"2021 China Semiconductor Technology International Conference (CSTIC)","volume":"51 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114093847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Novel Lightweight PUFs Using Interconnect Line Mismatch for Hardware Security","authors":"Ye Lin, Yuejun Zhang, Jia Chen, Jinliang Han","doi":"10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461415","url":null,"abstract":"The emerging physical unclonable functions (PUFs) in the IC supply chain pose not only a challenge to security threats, but also a serious concern about hardware efficiency. Traditional PUF relies on the mismatch of the device, and it may occupy lager area of the chip. In this paper, the physical unclonable function based on interconnect line mismatch is proposed with lightweight property. Due to the inevitable random difference in the process of the interconnect, the delay of the two lines will be different, to produce the random data of the PUF circuits. Then, PUF array is designed with control circuit, PUF cell circuit, and output circuit. Under the TSMC 65 nm CMOS technology, the proposed PUF can provide the physical random entropy source. Using Cadence simulation EDA tools, the experiments are performed to evaluate the performance of PUF circuits. And it operates at 1.2 V, ensures randomness and uniqueness with 48.6% hamming distance. Compared with other state-of-the-arts, the hardware cost reduces more than 15%. The experiment results show that interconnect line PUF provides better lightweight and randomness.","PeriodicalId":186529,"journal":{"name":"2021 China Semiconductor Technology International Conference (CSTIC)","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121490110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jinrong Wu, Junwen Huang, Taojun Zhuang, Weijun Luo, Victor Fang, C. Lansford, Yun Chen, Martin Liu, Scott Shao
{"title":"Peeling Defect Studying with N2/H2 Plasma during Carbon-based Recess Etch","authors":"Jinrong Wu, Junwen Huang, Taojun Zhuang, Weijun Luo, Victor Fang, C. Lansford, Yun Chen, Martin Liu, Scott Shao","doi":"10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461561","url":null,"abstract":"N<inf>2</inf>/H<inf>2</inf> plasmas are often adopted for controllable etching of C-based materials, such as for etching back end of line (BEOL) tri-layer resist. In this paper, N<inf>2</inf>/H<inf>2</inf> chemistry has been used for a spin-on carbon (SOC) recess application in a Lam capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) etch system. Peeling defects are more problematic for this recess etch than the traditional tri-layer carbon etch due to the Si-based byproducts that form readily on SiO<inf>2</inf> in N<inf>2</inf>/H<inf>2</inf> plasmas. Here, we report on the important role N<inf>2</inf> plays in this process space and describe two methods to mitigate the peeling defect mode for this application.","PeriodicalId":186529,"journal":{"name":"2021 China Semiconductor Technology International Conference (CSTIC)","volume":"199 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116148774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Novel Wafer-Map Similarity Search System with High Speed and Accuracy","authors":"Chang Xu, Qinfeng Shi, Ping-Fen Shi","doi":"10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461570","url":null,"abstract":"Wafer-maps contain extensive and complex production information. Fast and accurate issue tracing requires comprehensive wafer-map analyzing. This paper proposed a fast wafer-map similarity search system which can identify the similar wafer-maps accurately. The similarity search system includes a pre-processing stage and a similarity score calculation stage. The pre-processing stage consists of morphological closing and a spatial filter. The similarity calculation stage will perform image processing and then determine the similarity score based on formula. The final similarity ranking is based on the similarity score the higher score the higher ranking.","PeriodicalId":186529,"journal":{"name":"2021 China Semiconductor Technology International Conference (CSTIC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123379274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-K Bubble Defect Researches in Stack-BSI Process Product","authors":"Zhu Yin, Jianjun Li, Xiaoping Li, Na Zhu, Lifeng Liu, Hanming Wu, Dejing Ma, Xing Zhang","doi":"10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSTIC52283.2021.9461252","url":null,"abstract":"Back-side deep trench isolation (B-DTI) with high-k film passivation is widely used in back-side illuminated (BSI) CMOS image sensor (CIS) technologies. Since the high-k film is weakly adhered to silicon or ultrathin silicon-oxidation, high-k bubble (HKBB) defects is a challenge to enlarge the wafer back-side processing window. It is proved, by deep study in HKBB defects, film stress and localized pattern finetune could enhance the process health. So, based on this phenomenon, experiments by stress optimization and DTI dummy design insertion is excused. At last, the result is confirmed, and final solution is discussed in the article.","PeriodicalId":186529,"journal":{"name":"2021 China Semiconductor Technology International Conference (CSTIC)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122428765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}