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- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for measuring a parameter of interest using image plane detection techniques
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Application No.: US16268564Application Date: 2019-02-06
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Publication No.: US10983445B2Publication Date: 2021-04-20
- Inventor: Nitesh Pandey , Zili Zhou , Gerbrand Van Der Zouw , Arie Jeffrey Den Boef , Markus Gerardus Martinus Maria Van Kraaij , Armand Eugene Albert Koolen , Hugo Augustinus Joseph Cramer , Paul Christiaan Hinnen , Martinus Hubertus Maria Van Weert , Anagnostis Tsiatmas , Shu-jin Wang , Bastiaan Onne Fagginger Auer , Alok Verma
- Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Veldhoven
- Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
- Current Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Veldhoven
- Agency: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
- Priority: EP18156625 20180214
- Main IPC: G03F7/20
- IPC: G03F7/20 ; G01N21/21 ; G01N21/88

Abstract:
An inspection apparatus, method, and system are described herein. An example inspection apparatus includes an optical system and an imaging system. The optical system may be configured to output an illumination beam incident on a target including one or more features, the illumination beam polarized with a first polarization when incident on the target. The imaging system may be configured to obtain intensity data representing at least a portion of the illumination beam scattered by the one or more features, where the portion of the illumination beam has a second polarization orthogonal to the first polarization. The inspection apparatus may be further configured to generate image data representing an image of each of the feature(s) based on the intensity data, and determine a measurement of a parameter of interest associated with the feature(s) based on an amount of the portion of the illumination beam having the second polarization.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190250094A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING A PARAMETER OF INTEREST USING IMAGE PLANE DETECTION TECHNIQUES Public/Granted day:2019-08-15
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