Study of µDBO overlay target size reduction for application broadening

Autor: Florent Dettoni, Christophe Dezauzier, Richard Johannes Franciscus Van Haren, Jerome Depre, R. Bouyssou, Sergey Tarabrin, Clément Massacrier, Victor Calado
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control for Microlithography XXXII.
DOI: 10.1117/12.2297673
Popis: With these proceedings we present μ-diffraction-based overlay (μDBO) targets that are well below the currently supported minimum size of 10×10 μm2 . We have been capable of measuring overlay targets as small as 4×4 μm2 with our latest generation YieldStar system. Furthermore we find an excellent precision (TMU < 0.33 nm for 6 × 6 μm2 ) without any compromise on throughput (MAM time < 60 ms). At last a study that compares four generations of YieldStar systems show clearly that the latest generation YieldStar systems is much better capable of reading small overlay targets such that the performance of a 16 × 16 μm2 on an early generation YieldStar 2nd-gen is comparable to that of a 8 × 8 μm2 on the latest YieldStar 5th-gen. This work enables a smaller metrology footprint, more placement flexibility and in-die overlay metrology solutions.
Databáze: OpenAIRE