Methods of determining scattering of radiation by structures of finite thicknesses on a patterning device

    公开(公告)号:US10996565B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-04

    申请号:US16483452

    申请日:2018-02-13

    Abstract: A method including: obtaining a characteristic of a portion of a design layout; determining a characteristic of M3D of a patterning device including or forming the portion; and training, by a computer, a neural network using training data including a sample whose feature vector includes the characteristic of the portion and whose supervisory signal includes the characteristic of the M3D. Also disclosed is a method including: obtaining a characteristic of a portion of a design layout; obtaining a characteristic of a lithographic process that uses a patterning device including or forming the portion; determining a characteristic of a result of the lithographic process; training, by a computer, a neural network using training data including a sample whose feature vector includes the characteristic of the portion and the characteristic of the lithographic process, and whose supervisory signal includes the characteristic of the result.

    Metrology method and apparatus
    24.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09903823B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-27

    申请号:US14945257

    申请日:2015-11-18

    Abstract: A method to determine an overlay error between a first structure and a second structure, wherein the first structure and second structures are on different layers on a substrate and are imaged onto the substrate by a lithographic process, the method comprising: obtaining an apparent overlay error; obtaining a systematic error caused by a factor other than misalignment of the first and second structures; and determining the overlay error by removing the systematic error from the apparent overlay error. The method may alternatively comprise obtaining apparent characteristics of diffraction orders of diffraction by an overlapping portion of the first and second structures; obtaining corrected characteristics of the diffraction orders; determining the overlay error from the corrected characteristics; and adjusting a characteristic of the lithographic process based on the overlay error.

    Method and apparatus for model based flexible MRC
    26.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for model based flexible MRC 有权
    基于模型的柔性MRC的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US09418194B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-08-16

    申请号:US14456462

    申请日:2014-08-11

    CPC classification number: G06F17/5081 G03F1/70 G06F17/50

    Abstract: Described herein is a method of processing a pattern layout for a lithographic process, the method comprising: identifying a feature from a plurality of features of the layout, the feature violating a pattern layout requirement; and reconfiguring the feature, wherein the reconfigured feature still violates the pattern layout requirement, the reconfiguring including evaluating a cost function that measures a lithographic metric affected by a change to the feature and a parameter characteristic of relaxation of the pattern layout requirement.

    Abstract translation: 这里描述了一种处理光刻处理的图案布局的方法,该方法包括:从布局的多个特征中识别特征,所述特征违反图案布局要求; 并且重新配置所述特征,其中所述重新配置的特征仍然违反所述图案布局要求,所述重新配置包括评估测量受所述特征的改变影响的光刻度量的成本函数以及所述图案布局要求的松弛的参数特征。

    IDENTIFICATION OF HOT SPOTS OR DEFECTS BY MACHINE LEARNING

    公开(公告)号:US20220277116A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-01

    申请号:US17744091

    申请日:2022-05-13

    Abstract: Methods of identifying a hot spot from a design layout or of predicting whether a pattern in a design layout is defective, using a machine learning model. An example method disclosed herein includes obtaining sets of one or more characteristics of performance of hot spots, respectively, under a plurality of process conditions, respectively, in a device manufacturing process; determining, for each of the process conditions, for each of the hot spots, based on the one or more characteristics under that process condition, whether that hot spot is defective; obtaining a characteristic of each of the process conditions; obtaining a characteristic of each of the hot spots; and training a machine learning model using a training set including the characteristic of one of the process conditions, the characteristic of one of the hot spots, and whether that hot spot is defective under that process condition.

    PROCESS WINDOW IDENTIFIER
    30.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200372201A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-26

    申请号:US16993685

    申请日:2020-08-14

    Abstract: A method for determining an overlapping process window (OPW) of an area of interest on a portion of a design layout for a device manufacturing process for imaging the portion onto a substrate, the method including: obtaining a plurality of features in the area of interest; obtaining a plurality of values of one or more processing parameters of the device manufacturing process; determining existence of defects, probability of the existence of defects, or both in imaging the plurality of features by the device manufacturing process under each of the plurality of values; and determining the OPW of the area of interest from the existence of defects, the probability of the existence of defects, or both.

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