High order field-to-field corrections for imaging and overlay to achieve sub 20-nm lithography requirements

Jan Mulkens; Michael Kubis; Paul Hinnen; Roelof de Graaf; Hans van der Laan; Alexander Padiy; Boris Menchtchikov

doi:10.1117/12.2011550

12 April 2013 High order field-to-field corrections for imaging and overlay to achieve sub 20-nm lithography requirements

Jan Mulkens, Michael Kubis, Paul Hinnen, Roelof de Graaf, Hans van der Laan, Alexander Padiy, Boris Menchtchikov

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Proceedings Volume 8683, Optical Microlithography XXVI; 86831J (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2011550
Event: SPIE Advanced Lithography, 2013, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Immersion lithography is being extended to the 20-nm and 14-nm node and the lithography performance requirements need to be tightened further to enable this shrink. In this paper we present an integral method to enable high-order fieldto- field corrections for both imaging and overlay, and we show that this method improves the performance with 20% - 50%. The lithography architecture we build for these higher order corrections connects the dynamic scanner actuators with the angle resolved scatterometer via a separate application server. Improvements of CD uniformity are based on enabling the use of freeform intra-field dose actuator and field-to-field control of focus. The feedback control loop uses CD and focus targets placed on the production mask. For the overlay metrology we use small in-die diffraction based overlay targets. Improvements of overlay are based on using the high order intra-field correction actuators on a field-tofield basis. We use this to reduce the machine matching error, extending the heating control and extending the correction capability for process induced errors.

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Jan Mulkens, Michael Kubis, Paul Hinnen, Roelof de Graaf, Hans van der Laan, Alexander Padiy, and Boris Menchtchikov "High order field-to-field corrections for imaging and overlay to achieve sub 20-nm lithography requirements", Proc. SPIE 8683, Optical Microlithography XXVI, 86831J (12 April 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2011550

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