Simulation of non-uniform wafer geometry and thin film residual stress on overlay errors

Sathish Veeraraghaven; Kevin T. Turner; Jaydeep Sinha

doi:10.1117/12.879493

20 April 2011 Simulation of non-uniform wafer geometry and thin film residual stress on overlay errors

Sathish Veeraraghaven, Kevin T. Turner, Jaydeep Sinha

Proceedings Volume 7971, Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control for Microlithography XXV; 79711U (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.879493
Event: SPIE Advanced Lithography, 2011, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

The deposition of residually stressed films in semiconductor manufacturing processes introduces elastic distortions in the wafer that can contribute to overlay errors in lithographic patterning. The distortion induced by film deposition causes out-of-plane distortion (i.e. wafer shape) that can be measured with commercial metrology tools as well as in-plane distortion that leads to overlay errors. In the present work, overlay errors and out-of-plane distortion of wafers resulting from residual stresses that are non-uniform over the area of wafer are examined using computational mechanics modeling. The results of these simulations are used to examine the correlations between wafer shape features and overlay errors. Specifically, connections between overlay errors and metrics based on the slope of the wafer shape are assessed.

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Sathish Veeraraghaven, Kevin T. Turner, and Jaydeep Sinha "Simulation of non-uniform wafer geometry and thin film residual stress on overlay errors", Proc. SPIE 7971, Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control for Microlithography XXV, 79711U (20 April 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.879493

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