Method for adjusting a target feature in a model of a patterning process based on local electric fields

    公开(公告)号:US12189308B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-07

    申请号:US18129169

    申请日:2023-03-31

    Abstract: A method for determining a target feature in a model of a patterning process based on local electric fields estimated for the patterning process. The method includes obtaining a mask stack region of interest. The mask stack region of interest has one or more characteristics associated with propagation of electromagnetic waves through the mask stack region of interest. The mask stack region of interest includes the target feature. The method includes estimating a local electric field based on the one or more characteristics associated with the propagation of electromagnetic waves through the mask stack region of interest. The local electric field is estimated for a portion of the mask stack region of interest in proximity to the target feature. The method includes determining the target feature based on the estimated local electric field.

    Patterning stack optimization
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    公开(公告)号:US10775705B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-15

    申请号:US16325228

    申请日:2017-08-02

    Abstract: A method of tuning a patterning stack, the method including: defining a function that measures how a parameter representing a physical characteristic pertaining to a pattern transferred into a patterning stack on a substrate is affected by change in a patterning stack variable, the patterning stack variable representing a physical characteristic of a material layer of the patterning stack; varying, by a hardware computer system, the patterning stack variable and evaluating, by the hardware computer system, the function with respect to the varied patterning stack variable, until a termination condition is satisfied; and outputting a value of the patterning stack variable when the termination condition is satisfied.

    Method for adjusting a target feature in a model of a patterning process based on local electric fields

    公开(公告)号:US11619884B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-04

    申请号:US17298640

    申请日:2019-11-12

    Abstract: A method for determining a target feature in a model of a patterning process based on local electric fields estimated for the patterning process is described. The method includes obtaining a mask stack region of interest. The mask stack region of interest has one or more characteristics associated with propagation of electromagnetic waves through the mask stack region of interest. The mask stack region of interest includes the target feature. The method includes estimating a local electric field based on the one or more characteristics associated with the propagation of electromagnetic waves through the mask stack region of interest. The local electric field is estimated for a portion of the mask stack region of interest in proximity to the target feature. The method includes determining the target feature based on the estimated local electric field.

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