Method and apparatus for monitoring a process by employing principal component analysis
First Claim
1. An apparatus adapted to monitor a chamber comprising:
- a measurement apparatus adapted to collect optical emission spectroscopy (OES) data for electromagnetic radiation emitted by a plasma of the chamber; and
a processing mechanism coupled to the measurement apparatus, the processing mechanism adapted to;
receive OES data for electromagnetic radiation emitted by the plasma of the chamber;
for a series of windows of the received OES data;
perform principal component analysis to compute a respective principal component for each window of the received OES data; and
calculate an inner product of the principal component computed for each window of the received OES data and a calibration principal component computed for a window of OES data that corresponds to a previously performed calibration process; and
detect at least one of health of the chamber and a fault of the chamber based on one or more of the calculated inner products.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for monitoring a process by employing principal component analysis are provided. Correlated attributes are measured for the process to be monitored (the production process). Principal component analysis then is performed on the measured correlated attributes so as to generate at least one production principal component; and the at least one production principal component is compared to a principal component associated with a calibration process (a calibration principal component). The calibration principal component is obtained by measuring correlated attributes of a calibration process, and by performing principal component analysis on the measured correlated attributes so as to generate at least one principal component. A principal component having a feature indicative of at least one of a desired process state, process event and chamber state then is identified and is designated as the calibration principal component.
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1. An apparatus adapted to monitor a chamber comprising:
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a measurement apparatus adapted to collect optical emission spectroscopy (OES) data for electromagnetic radiation emitted by a plasma of the chamber; and
a processing mechanism coupled to the measurement apparatus, the processing mechanism adapted to;
receive OES data for electromagnetic radiation emitted by the plasma of the chamber;
for a series of windows of the received OES data;
perform principal component analysis to compute a respective principal component for each window of the received OES data; and
calculate an inner product of the principal component computed for each window of the received OES data and a calibration principal component computed for a window of OES data that corresponds to a previously performed calibration process; and
detect at least one of health of the chamber and a fault of the chamber based on one or more of the calculated inner products. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An apparatus adapted to monitor a chamber comprising:
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a measurement apparatus adapted to measure correlated attribute data of a plasma of the chamber; and
a processing mechanism coupled to the measurement apparatus, the processing mechanism adapted to;
receive correlated attribute data for the plasma of the chamber;
for a series of windows of the received correlated attribute data;
perform principal component analysis to compute a respective principal component for each window of the received correlated attribute data; and
calculate an inner product of the principal component computed for each window of the received correlated attribute data and a calibration principal component computed for a window of correlated attribute data that corresponds to a previously performed calibration process; and
detect at least one of health of the chamber and a fault of the chamber based on one or more of the calculated inner products. - View Dependent Claims (12)
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