The present invention relates to the technical field of semiconductor wafer transfer equipment, and in particular refers to a wafer positioning and correcting method, system and device system and device.
The chip processing industry has been developing rapidly in recent years, and in the process of chip production, different processes are carried out when the wafers will be transported in various process cavities. In the wafer handling process, theoretically, the relative position of the wafer and the mechanical hand handling the wafer is fixed. Theoretically, the relative positions of the wafer and the robot handling the wafer are fixed. However, in practice, after multiple processes and multiple handling, the wafer will deviate from the center of the robot's fingers, resulting in the loss of the wafer or the loss of the wafer finger center position caused by the phenomenon of falling or collision. To ensure the consistency and accuracy of the final placement of wafers, the robot needs to automatically correct the position of the wafer on the finger. To ensure the consistency and accuracy of the final placement of wafers, it is necessary for the robot to automatically correct the position of the wafers on the fingers, this dynamic deskewing technology is called active wafer centering (AWC), AWC is a dynamic deskewing technology. This dynamic deskewing technique is called Active Wafer Centering (AWC), and the automatic wafer centering function of AWC is aimed at the offset of the actual center and the reference center in the process of wafer transfer by the manipulator. The AWC wafer auto-centering function is designed to automatically correct the offset between the actual center and the reference center during the transfer of wafers by the manipulator to ensure that the wafers are accurately transported to the specified position.
In the existing technology, the dynamic deviation correction method of wafer handling has adopted two high-precision laser sensors, and needs to go through a complicated process. The existing technology, the dynamic deviation correction method of wafer handling uses two high-precision laser sensors, and needs to be calibrated and calculated after a more complicated to get the final deviation value, and the calculation process is carried out at the same time the center of the circle. In the process of calculation, both circular center correction and direction calibration correction are carried out, which makes the correction process complicated and the error is easy to generate interference, and the calibration accuracy is low.
To this end, the technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to overcome the dynamic deskewing method for wafer handling in the prior art the problem of low accuracy, and for commonly used wafer silicon wafers having flat grooves, to provide a wafer positioning deskewing method, where the wafer to be measured wafer includes a round edge and a flat edge, comprising the following steps:
In an embodiment of the present invention, the wafer turn angle θi is calculated as:
In an embodiment of the present invention, the distance ρi between an edge of the wafer to be measured and the center O of the rotary suction cup is calculated as:
ρi=L0+si
In an embodiment of the present invention, in S3, the specified range is:
R−0.5<ρi<R+0.5Δ
In an embodiment of the present invention, the predetermined coaxiality error between the wafer center P to be measured and the center O of the rotating suction cup is in the range of O of the center of the rotating suction cup is in the range of:
Δ<s
wherein s represents the optical calibrator range.
In an embodiment of the present invention, in S4, the judgement method of jumping to flat edge data or rounded edge data comprises: based on the according to the rotation angle of the wafer to be measured for the current sample, the previous two samples, and the edge of the wafer to be measured and the center of the rotating suction cup O the distance between the edge of the wafer to be measured and the center O of the rotating suction cup is judged to: satisfy
The rounded edge data jumps to flat edge data when the conditions of the
condition, the flat edge data jumps to rounded edge data; where θi is the currently sampled to-be-measured wafer θi is the rotation angle of the currently sampled wafer to be measured; θi-1 is the rotation angle of the last sampled wafer to be measured of θi; θi-2 is the rotation angle of the last sampled wafer to be measured of θi-1; and of θi-1 is the rotation angle of the last sampled wafer to be measured; θi-2 is the rotation angle of the last sampled wafer to be measured of θi-1; ρi is the distance between the edge of the currently sampled wafer to be measured and the center O of the rotating sucker; ρi-1 is the distance between the edge of the last sampled wafer to be measured of ρi and the center O of the rotating suction cup; ρi-2 is the distance between the last distance between the edge of the sampled wafer to be measured and the center O of the rotating suction cup.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the radius deviation pp is calculated according to the least squares method:
In one embodiment of the present invention, the phase deviation θp is calculated as
In one embodiment of the present invention, the flat edge angle phase deviation β is calculated according to the least squares method:
Based on the same inventive concept, the present invention also provides a wafer positioning correction system comprising the following modules:
A data initialization module for, with respect to the dimensions of the wafer to be inspected, treating the measured wafer circle center P and the rotating suction cup center O a preset coaxiality error Δ of the wafer to be tested, a radius R of the wafer to be tested, a distance L0 of the center O of the rotating suction cup from the emitter position of the optical calibrator, a distance L0 of the optical calibrator from the emitter position of the optical calibrator, and a distance L0 of the optical calibrator from the emitter position of the optical calibrator. a distance L0 from the transmitter position of the optical calibrator, a range s of the optical calibrator, a ratio k of the motor to the rotary suction cup, and a flat edge calibration threshold t initialized to be set.
A data acquisition and calculation module for real-time acquisition of the motor rotation during rotation of the wafer to be measured on the rotary suction cup angle αi and the optical calibrator shading amount si, and thereby calculating the rotation angle θi of the wafer to be measured and the distance between the edge of the wafer to be measured and the center O of the rotating suction cup ρi.
A wafer position deviation judgement module for judging whether the distance ρi between the edge of the wafer to be measured and the center O of the rotary chuck distance ρi is within a specified range: if it is within the specified range, continue with step S4; if it is not, give a wafer position deviation stop prompt.
A deviation parameter acquisition module for determining the rotation angle θi of the wafer to be measured and the edge of the wafer to be measured distance ρi from the center O of the rotating suction cup is round edge data or flat edge data.
In case of circular edge data, calculate the polar position of the wafer circle center P to be measured with respect to the rotating suction cup center O on the polar coordinate system deviation (ρp,θp), where ρp is the radius deviation ρp of the wafer circle center P to be measured with respect to the rotating suction cup center O, and θp is the phase deviation of the wafer circle center P to be measured with respect to the rotating suction cup center O. θp is the phase deviation of the center of the wafer to be measured P relative to the center of the rotating suction cup O.
If the data is flat edge data, the phase deviation of the flat edge angle is calculated based on the phase deviation of the center of the wafer to be tested P relative to the center of the rotating suction cup O obtained from the circular edge data before the jump; the wafer position correction module is used to calibrate the placement position of the wafer to be tested using the radius deviation of the center of the wafer to be tested P relative to the center of the rotating suction cup O, the phase deviation of the center of the wafer to be tested P relative to the center of the rotating suction cup O and the phase deviation of the flat edge corner to calibrate the placement position of the wafer undergoing testing.
In particular, the wafer to be tested is placed on a rotating suction cup, the rotating suction cup is connected to a motor, the rotating suction cup drives the wafer to be tested to rotate, the edge of the wafer to be tested is arranged in the calibration area between the transmitter and receiver of the optical calibrator, and the optical shading quantity si of the optical calibrator is the shading length between the edge of the wafer to be tested and the transmitter and receiver of the optical calibrator.
The present invention also provides a wafer positioning and guiding device comprising the wafer positioning and guiding system.
The above technical solution of the present invention has the following advantages over the prior art:
The wafer positioning and correction method, system and device described in the present invention improve the accuracy of correction by correcting the central position radius deviation pp, central position phase deviation Op and flat corner phase deviation β, and can ensure that the final placement positions of all wafers to be inspected remain consistent, achieving a dynamic correction effect.
A semiconductor wafer transfer device has a wafer positioning deskewing method via steps of initially setting parameters for the size of a wafer to be measured; collecting a motor rotational angle initialization settings for the size of the wafer to be measured; collecting motor angle data αi and optical calibrator optical calibrator shading length data si; calculating the wafer turning angle θi and the wafer edge to center of rotation distance data ρi. The distance between the edge of the wafer to be measured and the center of the rotating suction cup is determined to the center of the rotating suction cup is within the specified range: If it is within the specified range, use the radius of the center P of the wafer to be measured relative to the center O of the rotating suction cup. The radius deviation ρp from the center of the rotary suction cup O, the center of the wafer to be measured P phase O, the phase deviation θp from the center of the wafer to be measured, and the phase deviation β from the edge of the flat corner. The placement position of the wafer to be measured is calibrated by the phase deviation β of the wafer center P relative to the center O of the rotary chuck. This invention This invention can ensure that the final placement position of all wafers to be detected is consistent and achieve the dynamic deviation correction effect. This invention can ensure that the final placement position of all wafers to be inspected is consistent and achieve the effect of dynamic deviation correction.
In order to make the contents of the present invention more easily and clearly understood, the following is a further detailed description of the present invention according to specific embodiments of the present invention and in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, the present invention is described in further detail, wherein
The present invention is further described below in connection with the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments so that those skilled in the art may better understand the present invention and be able to implement it, but the exemplified embodiments are not intended to be a limitation of the present invention.
Referring to
S1: with respect to the size of the wafer to be inspected, a preset coaxiality error of the wafer to be tested at the circular center P and the rotating suction cup center O Δ, the radius R of the wafer to be tested, the distance L0 between the rotary suction cup center O and the emitter position of the optical calibrator, the optical calibrator range s, a motor to rotary suction cup ratio k and a flat edge calibration threshold t for initialization setting.
S2: Use the data acquisition device shown in
S3: determining whether the distance ρi between the edge of the wafer to be measured and the center O of the rotating suction cup is within a specified range: If within the specified range, continue with step S4; if not, give a shutdown indication that the wafer is out of position;
S4: determining whether the rotation angle θi of the wafer to be measured and the distance ρi between the edge of the wafer to be measured and the center of the rotating suction cup O whether the distance ρi is round edge data or flat edge data:
As shown in
In the case of flat edge data, the wafer center P to be measured relative to the center of the rotating suction cup obtained from the rounded edge data before jumping is used to center O to calculate the phase deviation of the flat edge corner phase deviation.
S5: using the radius deviation of the to-be-tested wafer center P relative to the rotating suction cup center O, the to-be-tested wafer circle center P relative to the center O of the rotating suction cup and the flat edge angle phase deviation for the placement of the wafer to be tested calibration.
As shown in
In step S2, the wafer turn angle θi is calculated as:
In
ρi=L0+si
L0 denotes the distance between the rotating suction cup center O and the emitter position of the optical calibrator and si denotes the optical calibrator shading amount.
In step S3, in determining whether the distance ρi between the edge of the wafer to be measured and the rotary chuck center O is within a specified range: if it is within the specified range, the distance ρi is within the specified range. range: if within the specified range, continue to step S4; the specified range is:
R−0.5Δ<ρi<R+0.5Δ
R denotes the radius of the wafer. A denotes a predetermined coaxiality error between the wafer center P to be measured and the center O of the rotating suction cup difference. The range of values of the preset coaxiality error Δ of the wafer center P to be measured and the center O of the rotating suction cup is:
Δ<s
In step S4, the judgement method of jumping to flat-edge data or rounded-edge data comprises: based on the current sample, the previous two samples, the rotation angle of the wafer to be measured, and the distance between the edge of the wafer to be measured and the center O of the rotating suction cup is judged: full
The rounded edge data jumps to flat edge data when the condition of the
condition, the flat edge data jumps to rounded edge data; where θi is the currently sampled to-be-measured rotation angle of the currently sampled wafer to be measured; θi-1 is the rotation angle of the last sampled wafer to be measured of θi; θi-2 is the last sampled θi-2 is the angle of rotation of the last sampled wafer to be measured of θi-1; ρi is the distance between the edge of the currently sampled wafer to be measured and the center O of the rotating suction cup; ρi-1 is the distance between the edge of the last sampled wafer to be measured and the center O of the rotating suction cup; ρi-2 is the distance between the edge of the last sampled wafer to be measured and the center O of the rotating suction cup; ρi-1 is the distance between the edge of the last sampled wafer to be measured and the center O of the rotating suction cup; and the distance between the edge of the last sampled wafer to be measured of ρi and the center O of the rotating suction cup.
If the angle of rotation θi of the wafer to be measured and the distance between the edge of the wafer to be measured and the center O of the rotating suction cup the distance ρi is circular edge data:
Calculate the polar position deviation (ρp,θp) between the wafer center P to be measured and the center O of the rotating suction cup in a polar coordinate system, where ρp is the radius deviation of the wafer center P to be measured with respect to the rotating suction cup center O, θp is the phase deviation of the wafer center P to be measured with respect to the rotating O, where ρp is the radius deviation of the wafer center P to be measured relative to the rotating suction cup center O, θp is the phase deviation of the wafer center P to be measured relative to the rotating suction cup center O, wherein the radius deviation ρp is calculated according to the least squares method:
The phase deviation θp is calculated as follows:
If the rotation angle θi of the wafer to be measured and the distance between the edge of the wafer to be measured and the center of the rotating suction cup O distance ρi are flat edge data: the phase of the center P of the wafer to be measured relative to the center O of the rotating suction cup obtained based on the rounded edge data before the jump the phase deviation θp, the phase deviation β of the flat edge angle is calculated by the least squares method:
where xi, yi are transition variables; and N denotes the number of fit terms.
Based on the same inventive concept as the debiasing method described in Example I, the present invention also provides a wafer positioning debiasing method. bias correction system comprising the following modules:
The present invention also provides a wafer positioning deskew device comprising the wafer positioning deskew system described in Example II.
It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that embodiments of the present application may be provided as methods, systems, or computer program products. Accordingly, the present application may take the form of fully hardware embodiments, fully software embodiments, or a combination of software and hardware aspects. embodiments, or a combination of software and hardware aspects. Further, the present application may take the form of a computer program that contains computer-usable program code on one or more computer-usable storage media (including a computer program that contains computer-usable program code). The application may also take the form of a computer program product implemented on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk memory, CD-ROM, optical memory, etc.) that contain computer-usable program code. in the form of a product.
The present application is made with reference to flowcharts and/or block diagrams of methods, devices (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the present application. diagrams and/or block diagrams according to embodiments of the present application. It should be understood that each of the flowcharts and/or block diagrams may be implemented by computer program instructions, as well as by computer program instructions, each flow and/or box in the flowchart and/or block diagram, and the combination of flows and/or boxes in the flowchart and/or block diagram. These computer program instructions may be provided instructions to a processor of a general-purpose computer, a specialized computer, an embedded processor, or other programmable data processing device to produce a machine. a machine such that the instructions executed through the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing device produce a process flow or multiple processes for implementing the flowchart. present the functions specified in the one process or multiple processes of the flowchart and/or the one box or multiple boxes of the block diagram.
These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory capable of directing the computer or other programmable data processing device to operate in a particular manner computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing device to operate in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in that computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture comprising an instruction instructions stored in the computer-readable memory to produce an article of manufacture comprising an instruction device that implements a function specified in one or more processes of a flowchart and/or one or more boxes of a block diagram. plurality of boxes.
These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing device, such that the computer or other programmable data processing device may be loaded onto the computer or other programmable data processing device, such that the computer or other programmable device to perform a series of operational steps to produce computer-implemented processing, such that the computer or the instructions executed on the computer or other programmable device provide instructions for realizing a process in one or more processes of a flowchart and/or one or more boxes of a block diagram, one or more boxes of a flowchart and/or one or more boxes of a block diagram.
Clearly, the foregoing embodiments are merely examples for clarity and are not a limitation of the embodiments. For one of ordinary skill in the art, other variations or changes may be made on the basis of the foregoing description. The above illustrations are not intended to be a limitation of the embodiments. It is neither necessary nor possible to exhaust all of the embodiments herein.
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