Patterning device
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    公开(公告)号:US10928735B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-23

    申请号:US16698868

    申请日:2019-11-27

    Abstract: A patterning device for use with a lithographic apparatus, the device comprising an absorber portion configured to absorb incident radiation and to reflect a portion of incident radiation, the absorber portion comprising a first layer and a second layer, the first layer of the absorber portion comprising a first material that is different from a second material of the second layer of the absorber portion; a reflector portion arranged beneath the absorber portion, the reflector portion being configured to reflect incident radiation; and a phase tune portion arranged between the reflector portion and the absorber portion, the phase tune portion being configured to induce a phase shift between the radiation reflected by the reflector portion and the portion of radiation reflected by the absorber portion such that the radiation reflected by the reflector portion destructively interferes with the portion of radiation reflected by the absorber portion.

    Method for high numerical aperture thru-slit source mask optimization

    公开(公告)号:US11815808B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-14

    申请号:US17280248

    申请日:2019-10-03

    CPC classification number: G03F1/36 G03F1/22 G03F7/705 G03F7/70125

    Abstract: A method for source mask optimization with a lithographic projection apparatus. The method includes determining a multi-variable source mask optimization function using a plurality of tunable design variables for an illumination system of the lithographic projection apparatus, a projection optics of the lithographic projection apparatus to image a mask design layout onto a substrate, and the mask design layout. The multi-variable source mask optimization function may account for imaging variation across different positions in an exposure slit corresponding to different stripes of the mask design layout exposed by a same slit position of the exposure apparatus. The method includes iteratively adjusting the plurality of tunable design variables in the multi-variable source mask optimization function until a termination condition is satisfied.

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