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Main Authors: Azimi, Rambod, Kong, Yijian, Gostimirovic, Dusan, Clark, James J., Liboiron-Ladouceur, Odile
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16973
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author Azimi, Rambod
Kong, Yijian
Gostimirovic, Dusan
Clark, James J.
Liboiron-Ladouceur, Odile
author_facet Azimi, Rambod
Kong, Yijian
Gostimirovic, Dusan
Clark, James J.
Liboiron-Ladouceur, Odile
contents Integrated silicon photonic devices, which manipulate light to transmit and process information on a silicon-on-insulator chip, are highly sensitive to structural variations. Minor deviations during nanofabrication-the precise process of building structures at the nanometer scale-such as over- or under-etching, corner rounding, and unintended defects, can significantly impact performance. To address these challenges, we introduce SEMU-Net, a comprehensive set of methods that automatically segments scanning electron microscope images (SEM) and uses them to train two deep neural network models based on U-Net and its variants. The predictor model anticipates fabrication-induced variations, while the corrector model adjusts the design to address these issues, ensuring that the final fabricated structures closely align with the intended specifications. Experimental results show that the segmentation U-Net reaches an average IoU score of 99.30%, while the corrector attention U-Net in a tandem architecture achieves an average IoU score of 98.67%.
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spellingShingle SEMU-Net: A Segmentation-based Corrector for Fabrication Process Variations of Nanophotonics with Microscopic Images
Azimi, Rambod
Kong, Yijian
Gostimirovic, Dusan
Clark, James J.
Liboiron-Ladouceur, Odile
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
Integrated silicon photonic devices, which manipulate light to transmit and process information on a silicon-on-insulator chip, are highly sensitive to structural variations. Minor deviations during nanofabrication-the precise process of building structures at the nanometer scale-such as over- or under-etching, corner rounding, and unintended defects, can significantly impact performance. To address these challenges, we introduce SEMU-Net, a comprehensive set of methods that automatically segments scanning electron microscope images (SEM) and uses them to train two deep neural network models based on U-Net and its variants. The predictor model anticipates fabrication-induced variations, while the corrector model adjusts the design to address these issues, ensuring that the final fabricated structures closely align with the intended specifications. Experimental results show that the segmentation U-Net reaches an average IoU score of 99.30%, while the corrector attention U-Net in a tandem architecture achieves an average IoU score of 98.67%.
title SEMU-Net: A Segmentation-based Corrector for Fabrication Process Variations of Nanophotonics with Microscopic Images
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16973