Acta Metrologica Sinica  2024, Vol. 45 Issue (8): 1115-1124    DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-1158.2024.08.05
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Research on Error Compensation and Fitting Algorithms of Wafer Alignment Calibrator
LIU Tundong1,CHEN Zengyan1,WANG Ruoyu1,TANG Zhichen1,ZHENG Peng2
1. Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China
2. Xiamen Institute of Measurement and Testing, Xiamen, Fujian 361004, China
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Abstract  Wafer alignment calibrator plays a crucial role in semiconductor manufacturing and inspection processes. However, the accuracy of wafer center positioning can be affected by measurement errors. Consequently, the development of error compensation algorithms is paramount to refining the accuracy of wafer alignment calibrator. To address the impact of wafer carrier surface tilt on sampling accuracy, a physical model of a tilted wafer and its elliptical projection on the horizontal plane is established. An analytical relationship between the ellipse and the wafer center is derived from this model. Subsequently, an elliptical equation is employed for fitting purposes. To further enhance compensation and fitting accuracy, an extended Kalman filter-based ellipse fitting algorithm with a forgetting factor is proposed. This algorithm employs density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise for data preprocessing, coupled with improved progressive consistent sampling to improve the distribution of sample points. Additionally, an iterative reweighted least squares method is applied for ellipse fitting, resulting in high-precision estimation of the wafer center. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a fitting accuracy of 99.95% after error compensation, thus validating its effectiveness.
Key wordsgeometric measurement      wafer alignment calibrator      error compensation      elliptical fitting      random sample consensus     
Received: 19 December 2023      Published: 05 September 2024
PACS:  TB92  
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LIU Tundong,CHEN Zengyan,WANG Ruoyu, et al. Research on Error Compensation and Fitting Algorithms of Wafer Alignment Calibrator[J]. Acta Metrologica Sinica, 2024, 45(8): 1115-1124.
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