Research Article

Online Monitoring of Copper Damascene Electroplating Bath by Voltammetry: Selection of Variables for Multiblock and Hierarchical Chemometric Analysis of Voltammetric Data

Table 5

Extreme values of parameters calculated for individually selected ranges of points of staircase voltammogram, variables , (Table 4) using UVE-PLS, UVE-PCR, PLS-VIP, IPLS, IPCR, and MWPLS for .

Data range index, kRange of voltammogram/
variables j
UVE-PLS
Min Abs(c)
UVE-PCR Min Abs(c)Min PLS-VIPIPLS
Max
RMSECV
IPCR
Max
RMSECV
MWPLS
Max
RMSECV

1401–14306156061.47.350.350.313
1478–14963313341.47.356.357.334
1785–18264244231.47.245.245.268
1871–18882812811.47.274.275.301
2173–22193353341.47.224.225.237
2263–22792502511.47.276.278.276
2563–26122852851.48.286.286.213
2655–26702312321.48.327.328.252
2955–30022372411.48.131.131.174
3048–30622252271.47.221.223.232
3345–33952302301.49.162.162.162
3441–34542242261.47.227.229.214
3735–37862222221.49.237.237.142
3834–38462252261.47.317.317.198