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17 May 2005 Etch, reticle, and track CD fingerprint corrections with local dose compensation
Hans van der Laan, Rene Carpaij, Jouke Krist, Oscar Noordman, Youri van Dommelen, Jan van Schoot, Frans Blok, Christian van Os, Sander Stegeman, Tom Hoogenboom, Craig Hickman, Erik Byers, Troy Gugel
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Abstract
Meeting a specific CD uniformity roadmap becomes more and more difficult as different budget components affecting CD uniformity fail to meet their requirements. For example, reticle manufacturing is at the edge of its potential, and hotplates impact CD uniformity by design. Also, etch processes must be balanced between optimal settings for varying structures. While work continues to enhance the performance of individual budget components, applying local exposure dose compensation with a scanner can provide a near-term solution for improving CD uniformity. Within the wafer processing chain, only the scanner has the unique capability to influence the final quality across-field and field-to-field in a controlled manner, making it the most effective tool for compensation. This paper describes the subsystems required for dose compensation and presents a solution that allows full integration into an automated fabrication environment. Examples will show that both the reticle contribution as well as the process-induced across-wafer fingerprint, including etch, can be improved by up to 50 percent. This improvement is demonstrated both on test structures and on memory device layers.
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Hans van der Laan, Rene Carpaij, Jouke Krist, Oscar Noordman, Youri van Dommelen, Jan van Schoot, Frans Blok, Christian van Os, Sander Stegeman, Tom Hoogenboom, Craig Hickman, Erik Byers, and Troy Gugel "Etch, reticle, and track CD fingerprint corrections with local dose compensation", Proc. SPIE 5755, Data Analysis and Modeling for Process Control II, (17 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.602129
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Cited by 6 scholarly publications and 3 patents.
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KEYWORDS
Semiconducting wafers

Critical dimension metrology

Reticles

Etching

Scanners

Actuators

Manufacturing

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