摘要:
An optical element includes a base material, a liquid-repellent member provided on at least a part of a surface of the base material, and a light-reducing member provided between the base material and the liquid-repellent member to protect the liquid-repellent member from radiation of light by reducing the light. The optical element is usable for a liquid immersion exposure apparatus for exposing a substrate through a liquid. It is possible to avoid any inflow of the liquid in a liquid immersion area into an unexpected place via the optical element.
摘要:
Metrology apparatus and methods are disclosed. In one arrangement, a substrate is inspected. A source beam of radiation (131) emitted by a radiation source (50) is split into a measurement beam (132) and a reference beam (133). A first target is illuminated with the measurement beam, the first target being on the substrate (W). A second target (90) is illuminated with the reference beam, the second target being separated from the substrate. First scattered radiation (134) is collected from the first target and delivered to a detector (80). Second scattered radiation (135) is collected from the second target and delivered to the detector. The first scattered radiation interferes with the second scattered radiation at the detector. The first target comprises a first pattern. The second target comprises a second pattern, or a pupil plane image of the second pattern. The first pattern is geometrically identical to the second pattern, the first pattern and the second pattern are periodic and a pitch of the first pattern is identical to a pitch of the second pattern, or both.
摘要:
Dummy patterns serving as sub-patterns are formed in virtual regions (2, 3). The numerical apertures of when only main patterns are formed in the virtual regions (2, 3) are 60 and 90%, respectively. The dummy pattern in the virtual region (2) is a light-shielding pattern of a rectangle having a side of 0.15 µm and the dummy pattern in the virtual pattern (3) is a light-shielding pattern of a rectangle having a side of 0.2 µm. The numerical apertures of the virtual regions (2, 3) are both 30%. When exposure using such a photomask is conducted, the amount of light produced by local flare is almost uniform at any point in the area where exposure light is applied on a photosensitive body. As a result, variation of the line width, even if caused, is uniform over the photomask.
摘要:
A spectral purity filter is configured to transmit extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation and deflect or absorb non-EUV secondary radiation. In an embodiment, the spectral purity filter includes a body of material highly transmissive of EUV radiation and a layer of material highly reflective of non-EUV secondary radiation located on a radiation incident side of the body. In an embodiment, the spectral purity filter includes a body of material highly transmissive of EUV radiation and a layer of high emissivity material on an end of the body.
摘要:
A projection optical system in which OoB irradiation dose on a wafer is reduced while degradation in optical characteristics is suppressed. The projection optical system comprises a first reflecting mirror exhibiting a reflectivity lower than a predetermined value to a second wavelength light different from a predetermined first wavelength light, and a second reflecting mirror exhibiting a reflectivity higher than the predetermined value to the second wavelength light. When the reflecting mirrors in the projection optical system is classified as reflecting mirrors (M1 M2, M5, M6) having a high ratio of overlapped reflection regions corresponding to two different points on the wafer, and reflecting mirrors (M3, M4) having a low ratio of overlapped reflection regions the uppermost stream reflecting mirror (M3) in the optical path of the projection optical system out of reflecting mirrors having a low ration of overlapped reflection regions is the second reflecting mirror.
摘要:
Projection objectives of current designs for use in microlithography have a stray light component which varies over the exposure field. The variation of the stray light component over the field can be reduced and/or adapted to the variation of another projection objective by introducing additional stray light. This is accomplished advantageously by pre-adapting or altering the surface roughness of a field- proximate surface and/or by installing optical elements with specifically targeted light scattering properties in a pupil plane. In this, the invention makes use of the observation that the variation of the stray light component over the field and the different respective variations of the stray light components of different projection objectives present greater problems to the manufacturers of semiconductor components than the stray light component itself. Particularly in projection objectives for immersion lithography where a strongly scattering polycrystalline material is used, the invention provides a way to compensate for the increased variation of the stray light component of these projection objectives over the field and to thereby arrive at a stray light component that is constant over the entire field. Furthermore, particularly in the case of projection objectives for EUV lithography, which exhibit a higher stray light component than conventional projection objectives, it is possible to adapt different projection objectives to each other in regard to the stray light component and/or the variation of the stray light component over the exposure field.
摘要:
An optical element includes a base material, a liquid-repellent member provided on at least a part of a surface of the base material, and a light-reducing member provided between the base material and the liquid-repellent member to protect the liquid-repellent member from radiation of light by reducing the light. The optical element is usable for a liquid immersion exposure apparatus for exposing a substrate through a liquid. It is possible to avoid any inflow of the liquid in a liquid immersion area into an unexpected place via the optical element.
摘要:
In photo-lithography, one may assess the effect of flare due to various exposure tools. In an example embodiment, in a photo-lithography process on a photo resist coated substrate, there is a method (600) for determining the effect of flare on line shortening. The method (600) comprises, at a first die position on the substrate and in a first exposure, printing a first mask (610) that includes a flare pattern (110) corresponding to one corner of the first mask (610), and in a second exposure, printing a second mask (620) that includes another flare pattern corresponding to an opposite corner of the second mask. At a second die position on the substrate, a composite mask pattern (630) based on features of the first mask and the second is printed. The printed patterns (640) are developed and measurements (650) are obtained therefrom. The effect of flare (660) is determined as a function of the measurements.