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Main Authors: Cantú, Emílio Dolgener, Wittmann, Rolf Klemens, Abdeen, Oliver, Wagner, Patrick, Samek, Wojciech, Baier, Moritz, Lapuschkin, Sebastian
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10713
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author Cantú, Emílio Dolgener
Wittmann, Rolf Klemens
Abdeen, Oliver
Wagner, Patrick
Samek, Wojciech
Baier, Moritz
Lapuschkin, Sebastian
author_facet Cantú, Emílio Dolgener
Wittmann, Rolf Klemens
Abdeen, Oliver
Wagner, Patrick
Samek, Wojciech
Baier, Moritz
Lapuschkin, Sebastian
contents Quality management in semiconductor manufacturing often relies on template matching with known golden standards. For Indium-Phosphide (InP) multi-project wafer manufacturing, low production scale and high design variability lead to such golden standards being typically unavailable. Defect detection, in turn, is manual and labor-intensive. This work addresses this challenge by proposing a methodology to generate a synthetic golden standard using Deep Neural Networks, trained to simulate photo-realistic InP wafer images from CAD data. We evaluate various training objectives and assess the quality of the simulated images on both synthetic data and InP wafer photographs. Our deep-learning-based method outperforms a baseline decision-tree-based approach, enabling the use of a 'simulated golden die' from CAD plans in any user-defined region of a wafer for more efficient defect detection. We apply our method to a template matching procedure, to demonstrate its practical utility in surface defect detection.
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spellingShingle Deep Learning-based Multi Project InP Wafer Simulation for Unsupervised Surface Defect Detection
Cantú, Emílio Dolgener
Wittmann, Rolf Klemens
Abdeen, Oliver
Wagner, Patrick
Samek, Wojciech
Baier, Moritz
Lapuschkin, Sebastian
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Image and Video Processing
Quality management in semiconductor manufacturing often relies on template matching with known golden standards. For Indium-Phosphide (InP) multi-project wafer manufacturing, low production scale and high design variability lead to such golden standards being typically unavailable. Defect detection, in turn, is manual and labor-intensive. This work addresses this challenge by proposing a methodology to generate a synthetic golden standard using Deep Neural Networks, trained to simulate photo-realistic InP wafer images from CAD data. We evaluate various training objectives and assess the quality of the simulated images on both synthetic data and InP wafer photographs. Our deep-learning-based method outperforms a baseline decision-tree-based approach, enabling the use of a 'simulated golden die' from CAD plans in any user-defined region of a wafer for more efficient defect detection. We apply our method to a template matching procedure, to demonstrate its practical utility in surface defect detection.
title Deep Learning-based Multi Project InP Wafer Simulation for Unsupervised Surface Defect Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10713