Stability analysis of semiconductor manufacturing process with EWMA run-to-run controllers

In the semiconductor manufacturing batch processes, each step is a complicated physiochemical batch process; generally it is difficult to perform measurements online or carry out the measurement for each run, and hence there will be delays in the feedback of the system. The effect of the delay on the stability of the system is an important issue which needs to be understood. Based on the exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) algorithm, we propose two kinds of controllers, EWMA-I and II controllers for single product process and mixed product process in semiconductor manufacturing in this paper. For the single product process, the stabilities of systems with both controllers which undergo different kinds of metrology delays are investigated. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the stochastic stability are established. Routh-Hurwitz criterion and Lyapunov's direct method are used to obtain the stability regions for the system with fixed metrology delay. By using Lyapunov's direct method, the stability region is established for the system with fixed sampling metrology and with stochastic metrology delay. We also extended the theorems of single product process to mixed product process. Based on the proposed theorems, some numerical examples are provided to illustrate the stability of the delay system.

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