Distribution-guided heuristic search for nonlinear parameter estimation with an application in semiconductor manufacturing
- Title
- Distribution-guided heuristic search for nonlinear parameter estimation with an application in semiconductor manufacturing
- Author
- 박철진
- Keywords
- Nonlinear parameter estimation; inverse problem; heuristic search; optical critical dimension; semiconductor manufacturing
- Issue Date
- 2020-11
- Publisher
- TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
- Citation
- IISE TRANSACTIONS, v. 52, no. 11, page. 1246-1261
- Abstract
- Estimating a batch of parameter vectors of a nonlinear model is considered, where there exists a model interpreting the independent and the dependent variables, and the parameter vectors of the model are assumed to be sampled from a multivariate normal distribution. The mean vector and the covariance matrix of the parameter distribution can be assumed and such a parameter distribution is referred to as the hypothetical underlying distribution. A new framework is proposed, namely, the distribution-guided heuristic search framework, which uses the information of the hypothetical underlying distribution with the following two main concepts: (i) changing the coordinate of the parameter vectors via linear transformation and (ii) probabilistically filtering a parameter vector sampled by a heuristic algorithm. The framework is not a stand-alone algorithm, but it works with any heuristic algorithms to solve the target problem. The framework was tested in two simulation studies and was applied to a real example of measuring the critical dimensions of a 2-dimensional high-aspect-ratio structure of a wafer in semiconductor manufacturing. The test results show that a heuristic algorithm within the proposed framework outperforms the original heuristic algorithm as well as other existing algorithms.
- URI
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24725854.2019.1709135https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/172271
- ISSN
- 2472-5854; 2472-5862
- DOI
- 10.1080/24725854.2019.1709135
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- COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING[S](공과대학) > INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING(산업공학과) > Articles
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