System and method for calibrating a spatial light modulator array using shearing interferometry
    1.
    发明授权
    System and method for calibrating a spatial light modulator array using shearing interferometry 有权
    使用剪切干涉法校准空间光调制器阵列的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US06847461B1

    公开(公告)日:2005-01-25

    申请号:US10765947

    申请日:2004-01-29

    IPC分类号: G01B9/02 G03F7/20 G01J1/20

    CPC分类号: G03F7/70516 G03F7/70291

    摘要: A system for calibrating a spatial light modulator array includes an illumination system and a spatial light modulator array that reflects or transmits light from the illumination system. A projection optical system images the spatial light modulator array onto an image plane. A shearing interferometer creates an interference pattern in the image plane. A controller controls modulation of elements of the spatial light modulator array. The shearing interferometer includes a diffraction grating, a prism, a folding mirror or any other arrangement for generating shear. The shearing interferometer can be a stretching shearing interferometer, a lateral shearing interferometer, or a rotational shearing interferometer. The shearing interferometer may include a diffraction grating with a pitch corresponding to a shear of the light by an integer number of elements. The projection optics resolves each element of the spatial light modulator array in the image plane. The controller can modulate alternate columns of elements of the spatial light modulator array.

    摘要翻译: 用于校准空间光调制器阵列的系统包括照明系统和反射或透射来自照明系统的光的空间光调制器阵列。 投影光学系统将空间光调制器阵列成像到平面上。 剪切干涉仪在图像平面中产生干涉图案。 控制器控制空间光调制器阵列的元件的调制。 剪切干涉仪包括衍射光栅,棱镜,折叠镜或用于产生剪切的任何其它布置。 剪切干涉仪可以是拉伸剪切干涉仪,横向剪切干涉仪或旋转剪切干涉仪。 剪切干涉仪可以包括衍射光栅,其具有对应于整个数量的光的剪切的间距。 投影光学器件可以分辨图像平面中空间光调制器阵列的每个元素。 控制器可以调制空间光调制器阵列的元件的交替列。

    Method and system for wavefront measurements of an optical system
    2.
    发明申请
    Method and system for wavefront measurements of an optical system 有权
    光学系统的波前测量方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US20090021748A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-01-22

    申请号:US12178524

    申请日:2008-07-23

    IPC分类号: G01B9/02

    CPC分类号: G03F7/706 G01J9/0215

    摘要: A wavefront measurement system includes a source of electromagnetic radiation. An illumination system delivers the electromagnetic radiation to an object plane. A source of a diffraction pattern is in the object plane. A projection optical system projects the diffraction pattern onto an image plane, which includes a mechanism (e.g., a shearing grating) to introduce the lateral shear. A detector is located optically conjugate with the pupil of the projection optical system, and receives an instant fringe pattern, resulting from the interference between sheared wavefronts, from the image plane. The diffraction pattern is dynamically scanned across a pupil of the projection optical system, and the resulting time-integrated interferogram obtained from the detector is used to measure the wavefront aberration across the entire pupil.

    摘要翻译: 波前测量系统包括电磁辐射源。 照明系统将电磁辐射传送到物体平面。 衍射图案的来源在物体平面中。 投影光学系统将衍射图案投影到图像平面上,该图像平面包括用于引入横向剪切的机构(例如,剪切光栅)。 检测器与投影光学系统的光瞳光学共轭,并且从图像平面接收由剪切波前的干涉导致的即时条纹图案。 衍射图案被动态地扫描投影光学系统的光瞳,并且由检测器获得的所得到的时间积分干涉图用于测量整个瞳孔上的波前像差。

    System and method for calibrating a spatial light modulator array using shearing interferometry

    公开(公告)号:US06965436B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-11-15

    申请号:US10981706

    申请日:2004-11-05

    IPC分类号: G01B9/02 G03F7/20 G01J1/20

    CPC分类号: G03F7/70516 G03F7/70291

    摘要: A system for calibrating a spatial light modulator array includes an illumination system and a spatial light modulator array that reflects or transmits light from the illumination system. A projection optical system images the spatial light modulator array onto an image plane. A shearing interferometer creates an interference pattern in the image plane. A controller controls modulation of elements of the spatial light modulator array. The shearing interferometer includes a diffraction grating, a prism, a folding mirror or any other arrangement for generating shear. The shearing interferometer can be a stretching shearing interferometer, a lateral shearing interferometer, or a rotational shearing interferometer. The shearing interferometer may include a diffraction grating with a pitch corresponding to a shear of the light by an integer number of elements. The projection optics resolves each element of the spatial light modulator array in the image plane. The controller can modulate alternate columns of elements of the spatial light modulator array.

    System and method for calibrating a spatial light modulator array using shearing interferometry
    4.
    发明授权
    System and method for calibrating a spatial light modulator array using shearing interferometry 有权
    使用剪切干涉法校准空间光调制器阵列的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07158238B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-01-02

    申请号:US11150344

    申请日:2005-06-13

    IPC分类号: G01B9/02 G01J1/20

    摘要: A system for calibrating a spatial light modulator array includes an illumination system and a spatial light modulator array that reflects or transmits light from the illumination system. A projection optical system images the spatial light modulator array onto an image plane. A shearing interferometer creates an interference pattern in the image plane. A controller controls modulation of elements of the spatial light modulator array. The shearing interferometer includes a diffraction grating, a prism, a folding mirror or any other arrangement for generating shear. The shearing interferometer can be a stretching shearing interferometer, a lateral shearing interferometer, or a rotational shearing interferometer. The shearing interferometer may include a diffraction grating with a pitch corresponding to a shear of the light by an integer number of elements. The projection optics resolves each element of the spatial light modulator array in the image plane. The controller can modulate alternate columns of elements of the spatial light modulator array.

    摘要翻译: 用于校准空间光调制器阵列的系统包括照明系统和反射或透射来自照明系统的光的空间光调制器阵列。 投影光学系统将空间光调制器阵列成像到平面上。 剪切干涉仪在图像平面中产生干涉图案。 控制器控制空间光调制器阵列的元件的调制。 剪切干涉仪包括衍射光栅,棱镜,折叠镜或用于产生剪切的任何其它布置。 剪切干涉仪可以是拉伸剪切干涉仪,横向剪切干涉仪或旋转剪切干涉仪。 剪切干涉仪可以包括衍射光栅,其具有对应于整个数量的光的剪切的间距。 投影光学器件可以分辨图像平面中空间光调制器阵列的每个元素。 控制器可以调制空间光调制器阵列的元件的交替列。

    System and method for calibrating a spatial light modulator
    5.
    发明授权
    System and method for calibrating a spatial light modulator 失效
    用于校准空间光调制器的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07580559B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-08-25

    申请号:US10765948

    申请日:2004-01-29

    CPC分类号: G03F7/70291 G02B27/58

    摘要: A method and system as used to calibrate a reflective SLM. The system can include the SLM having an array of pixels and a projection optical system resolving individual pixels and having an apodized pupil. During a calibration operation, the pixels of the SLM receive varying voltage values to move them through various angles. Light reflecting from the pixels during these movements forms individual images for each pixel at each angle. The light passes through the apodized pupil and is received on one or more sections of a detector. The apodization pattern is selected so that individual pixels remain well resolved with strong sensitivity to the pixel mirror tilt. The light intensity received for each pixel at each angle is correlated to the voltage value received at the pixel to tilt the pixel to that angle producing a result signal used by a control device to calibrate the SLM.

    摘要翻译: 用于校准反光SLM的方法和系统。 该系统可以包括具有像素阵列的SLM和分辨各个像素并具有变迹光瞳的投影光学系统。 在校准操作期间,SLM的像素接收变化的电压值以将它们移动通过各种角度。 在这些移动期间从像素反射的光在每个角度形成每个像素的单独图像。 光穿过变迹的瞳孔并被接收在检测器的一个或多个部分上。 选择变迹图案,使得各个像素以对像素镜倾斜的强敏感性保持良好地分辨。 在每个角度处为每个像素接收的光强度与在像素处接收的电压值相关,以将像素倾斜到该角度,产生由控制装置用于校准SLM的结果信号。

    System and method to compensate for static and dynamic misalignments and deformations in a maskless lithography tool
    6.
    发明授权
    System and method to compensate for static and dynamic misalignments and deformations in a maskless lithography tool 有权
    用于补偿无掩模光刻工具中的静态和动态不对准和变形的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07102733B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-09-05

    申请号:US10917380

    申请日:2004-08-13

    IPC分类号: G03B27/54 G03B27/42

    摘要: The present invention provides systems and methods for maskless lithographic printing that compensate for static and/or dynamic misalignments and deformations. In an embodiment, a misalignment of a pattern formed by a spatial light modulator is measuring during printing. Rasterizer input data is generated based on the measured misalignment and passed the rasterizer. The rasterizer generates pattern data, based on the rasterizer input data, that is adjusted to compensate for the measured misalignment. The pattern data generated by the rasterizer is passed to the spatial light modulator and used to form a second pattern, which includes compensation for the measured misalignment. In an embodiment, deformations caused, for example, by a warping a surface of the spatial light modulator are measured and used by the rasterizer to generate pattern data that compensates for the deformations.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供了用于无光平版印刷的系统和方法,其补偿静态和/或动态的不对准和变形。 在一个实施例中,在打印期间测量由空间光调制器形成的图案的未对准。 光栅化器输入数据基于测量的未对准生成,并通过光栅化器。 光栅化器基于光栅化器输入数据生成图案数据,其被调整以补偿测量的未对准。 由光栅化器产生的图案数据被传递到空间光调制器并用于形成第二图案,其包括对所测量的未对准的补偿。 在一个实施例中,例如通过使空间光调制器的表面翘曲引起的变形被光栅化器测量和使用,以产生补偿变形的图案数据。

    Methods for measuring a wavefront of an optical system
    7.
    发明授权
    Methods for measuring a wavefront of an optical system 有权
    用于测量光学系统的波前的方法

    公开(公告)号:US07602503B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-10-13

    申请号:US11708618

    申请日:2007-02-21

    IPC分类号: G01B9/02

    摘要: A method for measuring a wavefront of an optical system. A first step of the method includes directing electromagnetic radiation uniformly at an object plane having a first grating positioned therein. Lines of the first grating comprise a plurality of dots. A second step of the method includes projecting an image of the first grating onto a focal plane having a second grating positioned therein. A third step of the method includes measuring the wavefront of the optical system based on a fringe pattern produced by the second grating.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于测量光学系统的波前的方法。 该方法的第一步包括将电磁辐射均匀地引导到具有位于其中的第一光栅的物平面。 第一光栅的线包括多个点。 该方法的第二步骤包括将第一光栅的图像投影到具有定位在其中的第二光栅的焦平面上。 该方法的第三步骤包括基于由第二光栅产生的条纹图案来测量光学系统的波前。

    Method for co-registering semiconductor wafers undergoing work in one or
more blind process modules
    8.
    发明授权
    Method for co-registering semiconductor wafers undergoing work in one or more blind process modules 失效
    在一个或多个盲目处理模块中共同对准正在进行工作的半导体晶片的方法

    公开(公告)号:US5610102A

    公开(公告)日:1997-03-11

    申请号:US152780

    申请日:1993-11-15

    摘要: A method for co-registering a semiconductor wafer (14) undergoing work in one or more blind process modules (10), (12) requires a means (16), (18) for consistently and repeatably registering the semiconductor wafer (14) to each process module (10), (12). Given this consistent and repeatable singular wafer registration means (16), (18), the location of the coordinate axes of each process module (10), (12) is determined with respect to the position of the semiconductor wafer (14) that is registered therein. The present invention method provides three approaches for determining the location of these axes: (1) an absolute location of the axes, (2) a relative location of the axes using one blind process module (10) to measure the position of a pattern etched into the semiconductor wafer (14) with another blind process module (12), and (3) a relative location of the axes using one blind process module (10) to measure surface or layer thickness characteristics in the semiconductor wafer (14) as modified by wafer processing. Regardless of which approach is followed, the determination of the location of the coordinate axes in each process module (10), (12) is an effective co-registration of the semiconductor wafer (14).

    摘要翻译: 一种用于共同对准在一个或多个盲工艺模块(10),(12)中进行工作的半导体晶片(14)的方法需要用于将半导体晶片(14)一致地和可重复地对准的装置(16),(18) 每个处理模块(10),(12)。 给定这种一致且可重复的奇异晶片登记装置(16),(18),每个处理模块(10),(12)的坐标轴的位置相对于半导体晶片(14)的位置来确定, 在其中注册。 本发明方法提供了用于确定这些轴的位置的三种方法:(1)轴的绝对位置,(2)使用一个盲处理模块(10)的轴的相对位置,以测量蚀刻的图案的位置 通过另一个盲目处理模块(12)进入半导体晶片(14),和(3)使用一个盲目处理模块(10)的轴的相对位置,以测量半导体晶片(14)中的表面或层厚度特性 通过晶片处理。 不管遵循哪种方法,在每个处理模块(10),(12)中确定坐标轴的位置是半导体晶片(14)的有效共同配准。

    Apparatus for measuring, thinning and flattening silicon structures
    9.
    发明授权
    Apparatus for measuring, thinning and flattening silicon structures 失效
    用于测量,变薄和平坦化硅结构的设备

    公开(公告)号:US5563709A

    公开(公告)日:1996-10-08

    申请号:US304983

    申请日:1994-09-13

    IPC分类号: G01B11/06 G01B11/30 G01J9/00

    CPC分类号: G01B11/06 G01B11/306 G01J9/00

    摘要: A system is provided for processing wafers, such as silicon and silicon-on-insulator wafers. The processing includes thinning and flattening of the wafers at a work station located directly beneath a down looking metrology apparatus for directing light onto the wafer and measuring the light wavefronts reflected from the wafer. The metrology apparatus for flattening includes the feature of a multiple lens array for arranging the reflected wavefronts into a plurality of light spots, and a charge-coupled-device light responsive device for receiving the light spots and determining the shape of the wavefronts. The system also provides a wafer transport system for moving one or more wafers into one or more work stations beneath the metrology apparatus in a vacuum chamber.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于处理诸如硅和绝缘体上硅晶片之类的晶片的系统。 该处理包括在位于下方的测量装置正下方的工作站上使晶片变薄和变平,用于将光引导到晶片上并测量从晶片反射的光波前。 用于平坦化的测量装置包括用于将反射波前布置成多个光点的多透镜阵列的特征,以及用于接收光斑并确定波前形状的电荷耦合器件光响应装置。 该系统还提供了一个晶片传送系统,用于将一个或多个晶片移动到在真空室内的测量装置下方的一个或多个工作站中。

    Fraunhofer line discriminator
    10.
    发明授权
    Fraunhofer line discriminator 失效
    弗劳恩霍夫线鉴别器

    公开(公告)号:US4433245A

    公开(公告)日:1984-02-21

    申请号:US342613

    申请日:1982-01-25

    CPC分类号: G01J3/4406 G01C11/02 G01J3/26

    摘要: An apparatus for the detection of fluorescence. An airborne optical system carried in an aircraft or spaceship scans a sunlit swath of terrain over a field of view defined by a selected one of the fringe rings of a Fabry-Perot etalon designed to pass a selected Fraunhofer line. A first series of detectors are disposed to sense light intensity over a predetermined arc within said selected ring. A second like series of detectors are disposed to sense light intensity just outside said selected ring. Electronic means are connected to said first and second plurality of detectors for determining the fluorescence reflected from the swath of terrain.

    摘要翻译: 荧光检测装置。 在飞机或宇宙飞船上携带的机载光学系统在被设计成通过所选择的弗劳恩霍夫线路的法布里 - 珀罗标准具的边缘环中选定的一个边界定义的视场上扫描太阳光照的地形。 设置第一系列检测器以感测在所述选定环内的预定电弧上的光强度。 设置第二类似的一系列检测器以感测恰好在所述选定环外的光强度。 电子装置连接到所述第一和第二多个检测器,用于确定从地形条带反射的荧光。