An empirical study on fault detection and root cause analysis of indium tin oxide electrodes by processing S-parameter patterns

In the field of optoelectronics, indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes play a crucial role in various applications, such as displays, sensors, and solar cells. Effective fault diagnosis and root cause analysis of the ITO electrodes are essential to ensure the performance and reliability of the devices....

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Main Authors: Kang, Tae Yeob (Author) , Lee, Haebom (Author) , Suh, Sungho (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: September 2024
In: IEEE transactions on device and materials reliability
Year: 2024, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 380-389
ISSN:1558-2574
DOI:10.1109/TDMR.2024.3415049
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2024.3415049
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10559267
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Author Notes:Tae Yeob Kang, Haebom Lee, and Sungho Suh
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Summary:In the field of optoelectronics, indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes play a crucial role in various applications, such as displays, sensors, and solar cells. Effective fault diagnosis and root cause analysis of the ITO electrodes are essential to ensure the performance and reliability of the devices. However, traditional visual inspection is challenging with transparent ITO electrodes, and existing fault diagnosis methods have limitations in determining the root causes of the defects, often requiring destructive evaluations and secondary material characterization techniques. In this study, a fault diagnosis method with root cause analysis is proposed using scattering parameter (S-parameter) patterns, offering early detection, high diagnostic accuracy, and noise robustness. A comprehensive S-parameter pattern database is obtained according to various defect states of the ITO electrodes. Deep learning (DL) approaches, including multilayer perceptron (MLP), convolutional neural network (CNN), and transformer, are then used to simultaneously analyze the cause and severity of defects. Notably, it is demonstrated that the diagnostic performance under additive noise levels can be significantly enhanced by combining different channels of the S-parameters as input to the learning algorithms, as confirmed through the t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) dimension reduction visualization of the S-parameter patterns.
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ISSN:1558-2574
DOI:10.1109/TDMR.2024.3415049