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Scaling of gate length below 14nm has a lot of advantages such as high speed with low power consumption in device aspects. However, process requirement also becomes much tighter and defect control becomes the key to the yield enhancement. Every single surface particle can be potential killer defect depending on the particle location and process step. To remove large slurry particle to help following...