Electronics industry is one of the fastest evolving, innovative, and most competitive
industries. In order to meet the high consumption demands on electronics components …

With the high demand and sub-nanometer design for integrated circuits, surface defect
complexity and frequency for semiconductor wafers have increased; subsequently …

Wafer maps contain information about defects and clustered defects that form failure
patterns. Failure patterns exhibit the information related to defect generation mechanisms …

In the semiconductor industry, the testing section has always played an important role. The
testing section often requires engineers to judge the defect, which wastes a lot of time and …

In semiconductor manufacturing processes, defect detection and recognition in wafer maps
have received increasing attention from semiconductor industry. The various defect patterns …

Defective die on a wafer map tend to cluster in distinguishable patterns, and such defect
patterns can provide crucial information to identify equipment problems or process failures in …

Wafer map defect pattern contains the critical information about semiconductor
manufacturing, effective defect analysis technology can improve the yield of products. This …

Semiconductor manufacturers aim to fabricate defect-free wafers in order to improve product
quality, increase yields, and reduce costs. Typically, wafer defects form spatial patterns that …

Automatic identification of defect patterns in wafer bin maps (WBMs) stands as a challenging
problem for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. Deep convolutional neural networks …

Wafer map analysis provides critical information for quality control and yield improvement
tasks in semiconductor manufacturing. In particular, wafer patterns of gross failing areas …