ESTIMATION OF DATA IN METROLOGY
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:EP3480659A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-08

    申请号:EP17199539.2

    申请日:2017-11-01

    IPC分类号: G03F7/20

    摘要: Methods and apparatus for estimating an unknown value of at least one of a plurality of sets of data, each set of data comprising a plurality of values indicative of radiation diffracted and/or reflected and/or scattered by one or more features fabricated in or on a substrate, wherein the plurality of sets of data comprises at least one known value, and wherein at least one of the plurality of sets of data comprises an unknown value, the apparatus comprising a processor configured to estimate the unknown value of the at least one set of data based on: the known values of the plurality of sets of data; a first condition between two or more values within a set of data of the plurality of sets of data; and a second condition between two or more values being part of different sets of data of the plurality of the sets of data.

    METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR METROLOGY
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:EP3699688A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-26

    申请号:EP19158015.8

    申请日:2019-02-19

    摘要: Methods and apparatus for directing onto a substrate a radiation beam emitted as a result of high harmonic generation (HHG). Exemplary apparatus comprising: a drive radiation source; an interaction region configured to receive a medium and positioned such that a drive radiation beam from the drive radiation source interacts with the medium during use to generate the emitted radiation beam by HHG, wherein the emitted radiation beam comprises a plurality of wavelengths and wherein an emission divergence angle of the emitted radiation is wavelength dependent; an optical system downstream of the interaction region and configured to focus the emitted radiation beam, wherein the plurality of wavelengths of the emitted radiation beam are focussed at a plurality of focal planes in dependence on the associated emission divergence angle; and a substrate support for holding the substrate at one of a plurality of axial positions relative to the plurality of focal planes, wherein one or more of the drive radiation source, the interaction region, the optical system and the substrate support is configurable to control a relative position of at least one of the focal planes with respect to the substrate.

    METHOD AND METROLOGY APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ESTIMATED SCATTERED RADIATION INTENSITY

    公开(公告)号:EP3611568A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-19

    申请号:EP18189181.3

    申请日:2018-08-15

    IPC分类号: G03F7/20

    摘要: A method of determining an estimated intensity of radiation scattered by a target illuminated by a radiation source, has the following steps: obtaining and training (402) a library REFLIB of wavelength-dependent reflectivity as a function of the wavelength, target structural parameters and angle of incidence K(λ,θ,x,y); determining (408) a wide-band library (W-BLIB) of integrals of wavelength-dependent reflectivity R of the target in a Jones framework over a range of radiation source wavelengths λ; training (TRN) (410) the wide-band library; and determining (412), using the trained wide-band library, an estimated intensity (INT) of radiation scattered by the target illuminated by the radiation source.

    METROLOGY METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH INCREASED BANDWIDTH

    公开(公告)号:EP3528049A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-21

    申请号:EP18157680.2

    申请日:2018-02-20

    摘要: Disclosed is method of optimizing bandwidth of measurement illumination for a measurement application, and an associated metrology apparatus. The method comprises performing a reference measurement (305) with reference measurement illumination having a reference bandwidth and performing one or more optimization measurements (310), each of said one or more optimization measurements being performed with measurement illumination having a varied candidate bandwidth. The one or more optimization measurements are compared with the reference measurement; and an optimal bandwidth for the measurement application is selected (330) based on the comparison.