Experimental study of contact edge roughness on sub-100 nm various circular shapes

Autor: Soo Bok Chin, Do Hyun Cho, Dongchul Ihm, Byoung-Ho Lee, Hyo Cheon Kang, Chang Lyong Song, Jum Bun Lee, Tae-Yong Lee
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: SPIE Proceedings.
ISSN: 0277-786X
Popis: The measurement of edge roughness has become a hot issue in the semiconductor industry. Especially the contact roughness is being more critical as design rule shrinks. Major vendors offer a variety of features to measure the edge roughness in their CD-SEMs. For the line and space patterns, features such as Line Edge Roughness (LER) and Line Width Roughness (LWR) are available in current CD-SEMs. However the features currently available in commercial CD-SEM cannot provide a proper solution in monitoring the contact roughness. We had introduced a new parameter R, measurement algorithm and definition of contact edge roughness to quantify CER and CSR in previous paper. The parameter, R could provide an alternative solution to monitor contact or island pattern roughness. In this paper, we investigated to assess optimum number of CD measurement (1-D) and fitting method for CER or CSR. The study was based on a circular contact shape. Some new ideas to quantify CER or CSR were also suggested with preliminary experimental results.
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