Overlay and stitching metrology for massively parallel electron-beam lithography

Guido Rademaker; Jonathan Pradelles; Stéfan Landis; Stephane Rey; Anna Golotsvan; Anat Marchelli; Tal Itzkovich; Tetyana Shapoval; Ronny Haupt; Erwin Slot; Guido de Boer; Dhara Dave; Marco Wieland; Laurent Pain

doi:10.1117/12.2297535

22 March 2018 Overlay and stitching metrology for massively parallel electron-beam lithography

Guido Rademaker, Jonathan Pradelles, Stéfan Landis, Stephane Rey, Anna Golotsvan, Anat Marchelli, Tal Itzkovich, Tetyana Shapoval, Ronny Haupt, Erwin Slot, Guido de Boer, Dhara Dave, Marco Wieland, Laurent Pain

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Proceedings Volume 10585, Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control for Microlithography XXXII; 105850U (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2297535
Event: SPIE Advanced Lithography, 2018, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

One of the metrology challenges for massively parallel electron beams is to verify that all the beams that are used perform within specification. The Mapper FLX-1200 platform exposes fields horizontally segmented in 2.2 μm-wide stripes. This yields two parameters of interest: overlay is the registration error with respect to a previous layer, and stitching is the registration error between the stripes. This paper presents five novel overlay targets and one novel stitching target tailored for Mapper’s needs and measured on KLA-Tencor Archer 600 image based overlay (IBO) platform. The targets have been screened by exposure of a variable shaped electron beam lithography machine (Vistec VSB 3054 DW) on two different stacks: resist-to-resist and resist-to-etched silicon, both as a trilayer stack. These marks attain a total measurement uncertainty (TMU) down to 0.3 nm and move-and-measure (MAM) time down to 0.3 seconds for both stacks. The stitching targets have an effective TMU of 0.4 nm and a MAM time of 0.75 seconds. In a follow up experiment, the two best performing overlay targets have been incorporated in an exposure by a Mapper FLX-1200. With the new stack a TMU of 0.3 nm and MAM time of 0.35 s have been attained. For 107 out of 140 selected stripes the slope was constant within 2.5%, the offset smaller than 0.5 nm and correlation coefficient R² > 0.98.

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Guido Rademaker, Jonathan Pradelles, Stéfan Landis, Stephane Rey, Anna Golotsvan, Anat Marchelli, Tal Itzkovich, Tetyana Shapoval, Ronny Haupt, Erwin Slot, Guido de Boer, Dhara Dave, Marco Wieland, and Laurent Pain "Overlay and stitching metrology for massively parallel electron-beam lithography", Proc. SPIE 10585, Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control for Microlithography XXXII, 105850U (22 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2297535

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