Film thickness control using spectral interferometry
A process for controlling a substrate processing operation such as a plasma etch operation. One embodiment of the method of the present invention forms a plasma within a substrate processing chamber to etch a wafer disposed within the chamber. The plasma emission is used by the process as a broadban...
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| creator | BALASUBRAMHANYA LALITHA S DAVIDOW JED E LYMBEROPOULOS DIMITRIS P SARFATY MOSHE |
| description | A process for controlling a substrate processing operation such as a plasma etch operation. One embodiment of the method of the present invention forms a plasma within a substrate processing chamber to etch a wafer disposed within the chamber. The plasma emission is used by the process as a broadband light source. During the plasma etch process, a plurality of wavelengths of radiation reflected from the surface of the wafer being etched are measured with a spectrometer. These measurements are then compared using pattern recognition techniques to previous measurements taken during a previous plasma etch operation. Certain embodiments of the invention use principal component analysis (PCA) techniques to perform pattern recognition while other embodiment use programmed neural net pattern recognition techniques. |
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