Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process for making and using mesh-style NCEM pads
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Application No.: US15259309Application Date: 2016-09-08
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Publication No.: US09911649B1Publication Date: 2018-03-06
- Inventor: Stephen Lam , Dennis Ciplickas , Tomasz Brozek , Jeremy Cheng , Simone Comensoli , Indranil De , Kelvin Doong , Hans Eisenmann , Timothy Fiscus , Jonathan Haigh , Christopher Hess , John Kibarian , Sherry Lee , Marci Liao , Sheng-Che Lin , Hideki Matsuhashi , Kimon Michaels , Conor O'Sullivan , Markus Rauscher , Vyacheslav Rovner , Andrzej Strojwas , Marcin Strojwas , Carl Taylor , Rakesh Vallishayee , Larg Weiland , Nobuharu Yokoyama
- Applicant: PDF Solutions, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: PDF Solutions, Inc.
- Current Assignee: PDF Solutions, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agent David Garrod
- Main IPC: H01L21/66
- IPC: H01L21/66 ; H01L23/58 ; H01L21/768 ; H01L21/3213

Abstract:
Wafers, chips, or dies that contain fill cells with structures configured to obtain in-line data via non-contact electrical measurements (“NCEM”). Such NCEM-enabled fill cells may target/expose a variety of open-circuit, short-circuit, leakage, or excessive resistance failure modes, and may include NCEM pads that comprise a mesh of GATECNT and AACNT stripes. Such wafers, chips, or dies may include Designs of Experiments (“DOEs”), comprised of multiple NCEM-enabled fill cells, in at least two variants, all targeted to the same failure mode(s).
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