DMWMNet: A novel dual-branch multi-level convolutional network for high-performance mixed-type wafer map defect detection in semiconductor manufacturing

X Zhang, Z Jiang, H Yang, Y Mo, L Zhou, Y Zhang… - Computers in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wafer map defect detection plays an important role in semiconductor manufacturing by
identifying root causes and accelerating process adjustments to ensure product quality and …

Mixed-type wafer defect detection based on multi-branch feature enhanced residual module

S Chen, Z Huang, T Wang, X Hou, J Ma - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Wafer testing is crucial in semiconductor manufacturing. Accurate identification of wafer
defects enables precise localization of manufacturing issues, thereby enhancing chip …

Development of a spatial dimension-based taxonomy for classifying the defect patterns in a wafer bin map

SH Choi, DH Lee, ES Kim, YM Bae, YC Oh… - Advanced Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
A wafer bin map (WBM) represents the locational information of defective chips on the wafer.
The spatial correlation of defects on the wafer provides crucial information for the root cause …

Contrastive deep clustering for detecting new defect patterns in wafer bin maps

I Baek, SB Kim - The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing …, 2024 - Springer
Wafer bin maps (WBMs) data, presented as images, play a critical role in identifying defects
in the semiconductor industry. Thus, accurately classifying WBM defect patterns is essential …

An End-to-End Bilateral Network for Multidefect Detection of Solid Propellants

F Guo, Z Chen, J Hu, L Zuo, T Xiahou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Defect detection tasks of solid propellants (SPs), involving size, shape, and surface defects,
are essential for ensuring the quality of many industrial products. Developing separate …

Hesitant fuzzy long short-term memory network and its application in the intelligent building selection

M Liu, W Zhou, Z Xu - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the deep learning algorithm, the long short-term memory (LSTM) network is an emerging
and hot tool to address classification issues. In the classification process, to provide more …

Input-guidance diffusion model for unknown defect patterns detection in wafer bin map

S Moon, SB Kim - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2025 - Elsevier
The detection of unknown defect patterns in wafer bin map (WBM) is crucial for maintaining
high production yields in semiconductor manufacturing. Existing methods often fail to handle …

CowSSL: contrastive open-world semi-supervised learning for wafer bin map

I Baek, SJ Hwang, SB Kim - Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2024 - Springer
In the semiconductor industry, wafer bin maps (WBMs) refer to image data that reveal the
defect of each chip positioned on that wafer. The WBMs provide crucial information that can …

Synthetic unknown class learning for learning unknowns

J Jang - Pattern Recognition, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the open set recognition (OSR) problem, where the goal is to correctly
classify samples of known classes while detecting unknown samples to reject. In the OSR …

Teacher–Explorer–Student Learning: A Novel Learning Method for Open Set Recognition

J Jang, CO Kim - IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When an unknown example, one that was not seen during training, appears, most
recognition systems usually produce overgeneralized results and determine that the …