Optimization of mask shot count using MB-MDP and lithography simulation

Autor: Wei Long Wang, Tam Nguyen, Gek Soon Chua, Ingo Bork, Cyrus E. Tabery, Aki Fujimura, Yi Zou, Byoung Il Choi
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: SPIE Proceedings.
ISSN: 0277-786X
DOI: 10.1117/12.897037
Popis: In order to maintain manageable process windows, mask shapes at the 20nm technology node and below become so complex that mask write times reach 40 hours or might not be writeable at all since the extrapolated write time reaches 80 hours. The recently introduced Model Based Mask Data Preparation (MB-MDP) technique is able to reduce shot count and therefore mask write time by using overlapping shots. Depending on the amount of shot count reduction the contour of the mask shapes is changed leading to the question how the mask contour influences wafer performance. This paper investigates the tradeoff between mask shot count reduction using MB-MDP and wafer performance using lithography simulation. A typical Source-Mask-Optimization (SMO) result for a 20nm technology will be used as an example.
Databáze: OpenAIRE