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公开(公告)号:US20250052692A1
公开(公告)日:2025-02-13
申请号:US18722087
申请日:2022-11-17
Applicant: Unity Semiconductor , Unity Semiconductor GmbH
Inventor: Alexey Butkevich , Jean Boulanger
IPC: G01N21/958 , G01N21/47
Abstract: Method for discriminating defects present on a frontside of a transparent substrate from defects present on a backside of the substrate comprises disposing the substrate in an inspection system in which first and a second light beams intersect at a measurement spot on the frontside of the substrate. Relative movement of the substrate and measurement spot is controlled such that a reference plane is kept tangential to the measurement path. A first pattern is identified in a measurement signal, the first pattern corresponding to light scattered by a particle on the backside of the substrate and presenting two intensity peaks separated from each other by a determined separation interval corresponding to the time necessary for the defect to be moved over the distance separating two illumination spots on the backside of the substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US12163899B2
公开(公告)日:2024-12-10
申请号:US18341339
申请日:2023-06-26
Applicant: Unity Semiconductor
Inventor: Mayeul Durand de Gevigney , Guillaume Vienne , Kaiss Benhadjsalem
Abstract: A system for optical inspection of a substrate. The system comprises an illumination device defining an inspection area on the substrate, a support to receive the substrate, and a detection device defining a detection area on the substrate. The inspection area is positioned ahead, with respect to the scanning direction, of at least a portion of the detection area.
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公开(公告)号:US12123698B1
公开(公告)日:2024-10-22
申请号:US18739436
申请日:2024-06-11
Applicant: UNITY SEMICONDUCTOR
Inventor: Alain Courteville , Michael Schöbitz , Wolfgang Alexander Iff
CPC classification number: G01B11/02 , G01B11/26 , G01B2210/56
Abstract: A method for characterizing a structure etched in a first substrate surface, the structure extending along a longitudinal direction, z, into the substrate, the method implemented by a system including a light source emitting an illumination beam with a wavelength transmitted through the substrate, and an imaging device positioned to face a second substrate surface opposite the first surface, the method including illuminating at least one structure with the illumination beam, subsequently positioning an object plane of the imaging device at at least two different longitudinal positions; acquiring at least one image of the structure at each of the longitudinal positions, the images being acquired through the substrate; measuring data relating to a lateral dimension of the structure from each acquired image at each of the longitudinal positions; and determining longitudinal data relating to a longitudinal shape of the structure from the lateral data of at least two longitudinal positions.
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公开(公告)号:US11942379B1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-26
申请号:US18359661
申请日:2023-07-26
Applicant: Unity Semiconductor
Inventor: Dario Alliata , Jean-François Boulanger
CPC classification number: H01L22/12 , G01N21/9501 , H01L22/20
Abstract: A measurement system and an inspection method for detecting a defective bonding interface in a sample substrate including at least one element disposed on a support. The method comprises: placing the sample substrate in the measurement system, establishing an inclination map of the exposed surface, analyzing the inclination map and identifying a zone or zones of the exposed surface whose inclinations deviate by more than a given threshold from the inclination of the reference surface; and detecting the presence of a defective bond between the element and the support, depending on the result of the analysis of the inclination map.
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公开(公告)号:US11713960B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-01
申请号:US17296117
申请日:2019-11-28
Applicant: UNITY SEMICONDUCTOR
Inventor: Jean-François Boulanger , Isabelle Bergoënd
IPC: G01B9/0209 , G01B9/02 , G01B11/06
CPC classification number: G01B9/0209 , G01B9/02083 , G01B9/02088 , G01B11/0625 , G01B2210/56
Abstract: A method for measuring a surface of an object including at least one structure using low coherence optical interferometry, the method including the steps of acquiring an interferometric signal at a plurality of measurement points in a field of view and, for at least one measurement point, attributing the interferometric signal acquired to a class of interferometric signals from a plurality of classes, each of the classes being associated with a reference interferometric signal representative of a typical structure; and analysing the interferometric signal to derive therefrom an item of information on the structure at the measurement point, as a function of its class.
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公开(公告)号:US11069386B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-20
申请号:US16869816
申请日:2020-05-08
Applicant: Unity Semiconductor Corporation
Inventor: Christophe Chevallier , Seow Fong Lim , Chang Hua Siau
IPC: G11C7/00 , G11C7/22 , G11C5/02 , G11C11/21 , G11C13/00 , G11C8/10 , G11C8/12 , G11C7/04 , B82Y30/00
Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to semiconductors and memory technology, and more particularly, to systems, integrated circuits, and methods to implement circuits configured to compensate for parameter variations in layers of memory by adjusting access signals during memory operations. In some embodiments, memory cells are based on third dimensional memory technology. In at least some embodiments, an integrated circuit includes multiple layers of memory, a layer including sub-layers of semiconductor material. The integrated circuit also includes an access signal generator configured to generate an access signal to facilitate an access operation, and a characteristic adjuster configured to adjust the access signal for each layer in the multiple layers of memory.
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公开(公告)号:US10790334B2
公开(公告)日:2020-09-29
申请号:US15633050
申请日:2017-06-26
Applicant: Unity Semiconductor Corporation
Inventor: Bruce Lynn Bateman
Abstract: An ultra-high-density vertical cross-point array comprises a plurality of horizontal line layers having horizontal lines interleaved with a plurality of vertical lines arranged in rows and columns. The vertical lines are interleaved with the horizontal lines such that a row of vertical lines is positioned between each consecutive pair of horizontal lines in each horizontal line layer. Each vertical line comprises a center conductor surrounded by a single or multi-layered memory film. Accordingly, when interleaved with the horizontal lines, two-terminal memory cells are integrally formed between the center conductor of each vertical line and each crossing horizontal line. By configuring the vertical and horizontal lines so that a row of vertical lines is positioned between each consecutive pair of horizontal lines, a unit memory cell footprint of just 2F2 may be realized.
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公开(公告)号:US10788993B2
公开(公告)日:2020-09-29
申请号:US16811401
申请日:2020-03-06
Applicant: Unity Semiconductor Corporation
Inventor: Chang Hua Siau
Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to semiconductors and memory technology, and more particularly, to systems, integrated circuits, and methods to preserve states of memory elements in association with data operations using variable access signal magnitudes for other memory elements, such as implemented in third dimensional memory technology. In some embodiments, a memory device can include a cross-point array with resistive memory elements. An access signal generator can modify a magnitude of a signal to generate a modified magnitude for the signal to access a resistive memory element associated with a word line and a subset of bit lines. A tracking signal generator is configured to track the modified magnitude of the signal and to apply a tracking signal to other resistive memory elements associated with other subsets of bit lines, the tracking signal having a magnitude at a differential amount from the modified magnitude of the signal.
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公开(公告)号:US10650870B2
公开(公告)日:2020-05-12
申请号:US16276333
申请日:2019-02-14
Applicant: Unity Semiconductor Corporation
Inventor: Christophe Chevallier , Seow Fong Lim , Chang Hua Siau
IPC: G11C7/00 , G11C7/22 , G11C5/02 , G11C11/21 , G11C13/00 , G11C8/10 , G11C8/12 , G11C7/04 , B82Y30/00
Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to semiconductors and memory technology, and more particularly, to systems, integrated circuits, and methods to implement circuits configured to compensate for parameter variations in layers of memory by adjusting access signals during memory operations. In some embodiments, memory cells are based on third dimensional memory technology. In at least some embodiments, an integrated circuit includes multiple layers of memory, a layer including sub-layers of semiconductor material. The integrated circuit also includes an access signal generator configured to generate an access signal to facilitate an access operation, and a characteristic adjuster configured to adjust the access signal for each layer in the multiple layers of memory.
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公开(公告)号:US20190252011A1
公开(公告)日:2019-08-15
申请号:US16276333
申请日:2019-02-14
Applicant: Unity Semiconductor Corporation
Inventor: Christophe Chevallier , Seow Fong Lim , Chang Hua Siau
CPC classification number: G11C7/22 , B82Y30/00 , G11C5/02 , G11C7/04 , G11C8/10 , G11C8/12 , G11C11/21 , G11C13/0021
Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to semiconductors and memory technology, and more particularly, to systems, integrated circuits, and methods to implement circuits configured to compensate for parameter variations in layers of memory by adjusting access signals during memory operations. In some embodiments, memory cells are based on third dimensional memory technology. In at least some embodiments, an integrated circuit includes multiple layers of memory, a layer including sub-layers of semiconductor material. The integrated circuit also includes an access signal generator configured to generate an access signal to facilitate an access operation, and a characteristic adjuster configured to adjust the access signal for each layer in the multiple layers of memory.
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