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SEM Image Quality Improvement and MTF Measurement Technique for Image Quality Evaluation Using Convolutional Neural Network
Chan Ki Kim, Eung Chang Lee, Joong Bae Kim, Jinsung Rho
J. Korean Soc. Precis. Eng. 2023;40(4):275-282.
Published online April 1, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7736/JKSPE.023.003
As the size of semiconductor devices gradually decreases, it is important to measure and analyze semiconductor devices, to improve the image quality of semiconductors. We use VDSR, one of the Super-Resolution methods to improve the quality of semiconductor devices’ SEM images. VDSR is also a convolutional neural network that can be optimized with various parameters. In this study, a VDSR model for semiconductor devices’ SEM images was optimized using parameters such as depth of layers and amount of training data. Meanwhile, the quantitative evaluation and the qualitative evaluation did not match at the low scale factor. To solve this problem, we proposed an MTF measurement method using the slanted edge for better quantitative evaluation. This method was verified by comparing the results with the PSNR and SSIM index results, which are known as quality indicators. Based on the results, it was confirmed that using the MTF value could be a better approach for the evaluation of SEM images of the semiconductor device than using PSNR and SSIM.
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