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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 - 2:10 PM

Fast root cause analysis based on electrical defect localization

M. B. Schmidt, L. A. Dworkin, FEI Company, Hillsboro, OR; C. Hess, M. Squcciarini, S. Yu, J. Burrows, PDF Solutions Inc., San Jose, CA

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Summary: This paper discusses a new technique for localizing and determining the root cause of yield limiting defects detected after electrical test. The technique highlights the union between electrical test structure layout and FIB/SEM Dualbeam.