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Main Authors: Ma, Yiming, Teng, Jianzhi, Li, Xinjie, Sun, Xin, Wang, Zhiyong, Song, Yuzhou, Wang, Lionel Z., Chen, Bin
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17869
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author Ma, Yiming
Teng, Jianzhi
Li, Xinjie
Sun, Xin
Wang, Zhiyong
Song, Yuzhou
Wang, Lionel Z.
Chen, Bin
author_facet Ma, Yiming
Teng, Jianzhi
Li, Xinjie
Sun, Xin
Wang, Zhiyong
Song, Yuzhou
Wang, Lionel Z.
Chen, Bin
contents Inverse ellipsometry, i.e., reconstructing optical constants and film thickness from the measured phase difference $Δ$ and amplitude ratio $Ψ$, is a fundamentally ill-posed problem. Traditional solutions rely on slow, expert-driven iterative fitting, while the development of machine learning approaches has been severely limited by the lack of large-scale, physically consistent datasets. To address this gap, we introduce \textbf{EllipBench}, a comprehensive benchmark comprising over 8 million high-precision samples spanning 98 thin-film materials and 5 substrates. Building upon this benchmark, we conduct a systematic evaluation of a broad spectrum of methods, including traditional machine learning models, deep neural networks, and Physics-Informed Neural Networks, and show that existing paradigms consistently struggle to fully resolve the inverse ellipsometry task. To better capture its inherent ambiguity, we further propose a novel \textbf{Decoupled Conditional Flow Matching (DCFM)} framework. Rather than formulating the problem as deterministic point-to-point regression, DCFM explicitly decouples geometric film thickness and incorporates it as a robust physical condition to guide a continuous vector field for modeling the inverse probability distribution of wavelength-dependent optical constants. Combined with a gradient detachment strategy and physics-based constraints, our joint architecture effectively mitigates intrinsic physical ambiguities and delivers a robust and accurate solution for inverse ellipsometry.
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spellingShingle Modeling Inverse Ellipsometry Problem via Flow Matching with a Large-Scale Dataset
Ma, Yiming
Teng, Jianzhi
Li, Xinjie
Sun, Xin
Wang, Zhiyong
Song, Yuzhou
Wang, Lionel Z.
Chen, Bin
Machine Learning
Inverse ellipsometry, i.e., reconstructing optical constants and film thickness from the measured phase difference $Δ$ and amplitude ratio $Ψ$, is a fundamentally ill-posed problem. Traditional solutions rely on slow, expert-driven iterative fitting, while the development of machine learning approaches has been severely limited by the lack of large-scale, physically consistent datasets. To address this gap, we introduce \textbf{EllipBench}, a comprehensive benchmark comprising over 8 million high-precision samples spanning 98 thin-film materials and 5 substrates. Building upon this benchmark, we conduct a systematic evaluation of a broad spectrum of methods, including traditional machine learning models, deep neural networks, and Physics-Informed Neural Networks, and show that existing paradigms consistently struggle to fully resolve the inverse ellipsometry task. To better capture its inherent ambiguity, we further propose a novel \textbf{Decoupled Conditional Flow Matching (DCFM)} framework. Rather than formulating the problem as deterministic point-to-point regression, DCFM explicitly decouples geometric film thickness and incorporates it as a robust physical condition to guide a continuous vector field for modeling the inverse probability distribution of wavelength-dependent optical constants. Combined with a gradient detachment strategy and physics-based constraints, our joint architecture effectively mitigates intrinsic physical ambiguities and delivers a robust and accurate solution for inverse ellipsometry.
title Modeling Inverse Ellipsometry Problem via Flow Matching with a Large-Scale Dataset
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17869