Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hybrid double patterning method for semiconductor manufacture
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Application No.: US15704367Application Date: 2017-09-14
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Publication No.: US10276394B2Publication Date: 2019-04-30
- Inventor: Ken-Hsien Hsieh , Wen-Li Cheng , Dong-Yo Jheng , Chih-Ming Lai , Ru-Gun Liu
- Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: Haynes and Boone, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F7/50
- IPC: G06F7/50 ; H01L21/308 ; G06F17/50

Abstract:
A method of fabricating an integrated circuit (IC) with first and second different lithography techniques includes providing a layout of the IC having IC patterns; and deriving a graph from the layout. The graph has vertices and edges connecting some of the vertices. The vertices represent the IC patterns. The edges are classified into at least two types, a first type connecting two vertices that are to be patterned separately with the first and second lithography techniques, a second type connecting two vertices that are to be patterned in a same process using the first lithography technique or to be patterned separately with the first and second lithography techniques. The method further includes decomposing the vertices into first and second subsets, wherein the IC patterns corresponding to the first and second subsets are to be patterned on a wafer using the first and second lithography techniques respectively.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190080921A1 Hybrid Double Patterning Method for Semiconductor Manufacture Public/Granted day:2019-03-14
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