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公开(公告)号:US11940740B2
公开(公告)日:2024-03-26
申请号:US17836099
申请日:2022-06-09
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
Inventor: Alexander Ypma , Jasper Menger , David Deckers , David Han , Adrianus Cornelis Matheus Koopman , Irina Lyulina , Scott Anderson Middlebrooks , Richard Johannes Franciscus Van Haren , Jochem Sebastiaan Wildenberg
CPC classification number: G03F7/706837 , G03F7/70525 , G03F7/70616 , G03F9/7092 , G06F16/26
Abstract: In a lithographic process, product units such as semiconductor wafers are subjected to lithographic patterning operations and chemical and physical processing operations. Alignment data or other measurements are made at stages during the performance of the process to obtain object data representing positional deviation or other parameters measured at points spatially distributed across each unit. This object data is used to obtain diagnostic information by performing a multivariate analysis to decompose a set of vectors representing the units in the multidimensional space into one or more component vectors. Diagnostic information about the industrial process is extracted using the component vectors. The performance of the industrial process for subsequent product units can be controlled based on the extracted diagnostic information.
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公开(公告)号:US11940739B2
公开(公告)日:2024-03-26
申请号:US17562446
申请日:2021-12-27
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
Inventor: Nitesh Pandey , Arie Jeffrey Den Boef , Duygu Akbulut , Marinus Johannes Maria Van Dam , Hans Butler , Hugo Augustinus Joseph Cramer , Engelbertus Antonius Fransiscus Van Der Pasch , Ferry Zijp , Jeroen Arnoldus Leonardus Johannes Raaymakers , Marinus Petrus Reijnders
IPC: G03F7/20 , G01N21/956 , G03F7/00
CPC classification number: G03F7/70625 , G01N21/956 , G03F7/7015 , G03F7/70633
Abstract: A metrology tool for determining a parameter of interest of a structure fabricated on a substrate, the metrology tool comprising: an illumination optical system for illuminating the structure with illumination radiation under a non-zero angle of incidence; a detection optical system comprising a detection optical sensor and at least one lens for capturing a portion of illumination radiation scattered by the structure and transmitting the captured radiation towards the detection optical sensor, wherein the illumination optical system and the detection optical system do not share an optical element.
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公开(公告)号:US20240096589A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-21
申请号:US18038206
申请日:2021-10-26
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
Inventor: Stoyan NIHTIANOV , Kenichi KANAI , Padmakumar RAMACHANDRA RAO
IPC: H01J37/244
CPC classification number: H01J37/244 , H01J2237/2441 , H01J2237/2446 , H01J2237/24495
Abstract: A detector may be provided for a charged particle apparatus comprising:
a sensing element including a diode; and
a circuit configured to detect an electron event caused by an electron impacting the sensing element,
wherein the circuit comprises a voltage monitoring device and a reset device,
wherein the reset device is configured to regularly reset the diode by setting a voltage across the diode to a predetermined value,
and wherein the voltage monitoring device is connected to the diode to monitor a voltage across the diode in between resets.-
公开(公告)号:US20240087835A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-14
申请号:US18517642
申请日:2023-11-22
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
Inventor: Albertus Victor Gerardus MANGNUS
CPC classification number: H01J37/05 , H01J37/12 , H01J37/21 , H01J2237/036 , H01J2237/04756 , H01J2237/151 , H01J2237/216
Abstract: The present disclosure provides a charged particle optical device for a charged particle system. The device projects an array of charged particle beams towards a sample. The device comprises a control lens array to control a parameter of the array of beams; and an objective lens array to project the array of beams onto the sample, the objective lens array being down beam of the control lens. The objective lens array comprises: an upper electrode; and a lower electrode arrangement that comprises an up-beam electrode and a down-beam electrode. The device is configured to apply an upper potential to the upper electrode, an up-beam potential to the up-beam electrode and a down-beam potential to the down-beam electrode. The potentials are controlled to control the landing energy of the beams on the sample and. to maintain focus of the beams on the sample at the landing energies.
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公开(公告)号:US20240085809A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-14
申请号:US18515952
申请日:2023-11-21
Inventor: Lei ZHOU , David L. TRUMPER , Ruvinda GUNAWARDANA
CPC classification number: G03F7/70758 , G03F7/70741 , H02K41/033
Abstract: A reticle transport system having a magnetically levitated transportation stage is disclosed. Such a system may be suitable for use in vacuum environments, for example, ultra-clean vacuum environments. A magnetic levitated linear motor functions to propel the transportation stage in a linear direction along a defined axis of travel and to magnetically levitate the transportation stage
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公开(公告)号:US20240077380A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-07
申请号:US18262511
申请日:2022-01-05
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
Inventor: Marinus Maria Johannes VAN DE WAL , Koos VAN BERKEL , Victor Sebastiaan DOLK , Stijn Clyde Natalia THISSEN , Mauritius Gerardus Elisabeth SCHNEIDERS , Adrianus Hendrik KOEVOETS
CPC classification number: G01M11/0242 , G01K1/026 , G03F7/705 , G03F7/706 , G03F7/70891
Abstract: A method of predicting thermally induced aberrations of a projection system for projecting a radiation beam, the method comprising: calculating an irradiance profile for at least one optical element of the projection system from a power and illumination source pupil of the radiation beam, estimating a temperature distribution as a function of time in the at least one optical element of the projection system using the calculated irradiance profile for the at least one optical element of the projection system; calculating the thermally induced aberrations of the projection system based on the estimated temperature distribution and a thermal expansion parameter map associated with the at least one optical element of the projection system, wherein the thermal expansion parameter map is a spatial map indicating spatial variations of thermal expansion parameters in the at least one optical element of the projection system or a uniform map.
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公开(公告)号:US20240071713A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-29
申请号:US18270707
申请日:2021-12-09
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
Inventor: Niels Johannes Maria BOSCH , Xu WANG , Peter Paul HEMPENIUS , Yongqiang WANG , Hans BUTLER , Youjin WANG , Jasper Hendrik GRASMAN , Jianzi SUI , Tianming CHEN , Aimin WU
IPC: H01J37/20
CPC classification number: H01J37/20 , H01J37/28 , H01J2237/20235
Abstract: There is provided a charged particle apparatus comprising: a particle beam generator, optics, a first and a second positioning device, both configured for positioning the substrate relative to the particle beam generator along its optical axis, and a controller configured for switching between a first operational mode and a second operational mode. The apparatus is configured, when operating in the first operational mode, for irradiating the substrate by the particle beam at a first landing energy of the particle beam and, when operating in the second operational mode, for irradiating the substrate at a second, different landing energy. When operating in the first operational mode, the second positioning device is configured to position the substrate relative to the particle beam generator at a first focus position of the particle beam and in the second operational mode, to position the substrate at a second, different focus position.
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公开(公告)号:US20240069450A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-29
申请号:US18267734
申请日:2021-12-08
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
Inventor: Nabeel Noor MOIN , Chenxi LIN , Yi ZOU
CPC classification number: G03F7/7065 , G03F7/706841 , G06N20/20
Abstract: A method and apparatus for training a defect location prediction model to predict a defect for a substrate location is disclosed. A number of datasets having data regarding process-related parameters for each location on a set of substrates is received. Some of the locations have partial datasets in which data regarding one or more process-related parameters is absent. The datasets are processed to generate multiple parameter groups having data for different sets of process-related parameters. For each parameter group, a sub-model of the defect location prediction model is created based on the corresponding set of process-related parameters and trained using data from the parameter group. A trained sub-model(s) may be selected based on process-related parameters available in a candidate dataset and a defect prediction may be generated for a location associated with the candidate dataset using the selected sub-model.
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公开(公告)号:US11914942B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-27
申请号:US18206029
申请日:2023-06-05
Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
IPC: G06F30/30 , G06F30/28 , G03F7/00 , G06F30/398 , G06F30/3308 , G06F119/18 , G06F111/10
CPC classification number: G06F30/398 , G03F7/705 , G06F30/28 , G06F30/3308 , G03F7/70608 , G03F7/70625 , G06F2111/10 , G06F2119/18
Abstract: A method for determining a deformation of a resist in a patterning process. The method involves obtaining a resist deformation model of a resist having a pattern, the resist deformation model configured to simulate a fluid flow of the resist due to capillary forces acting on a contour of at least one feature of the pattern; and determining, via the resist deformation model, a deformation of a resist pattern to be developed based on an input pattern to the resist deformation model.
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公开(公告)号:US20240062362A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-22
申请号:US18268953
申请日:2021-12-08
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
Inventor: Zhe WANG , Liangjiang YU , Lingling PU
CPC classification number: G06T7/001 , G06T11/00 , G06T2207/20084 , G06T2207/20081 , G06T2207/30148 , G06T2207/10061
Abstract: An improved systems and methods for generating a synthetic defect image are disclosed. An improved method for generating a synthetic defect image comprises acquiring a machine learning-based generator model; providing a defect-free inspection image and a defect attribute combination as inputs to the generator model; and generating by the generator model, based on the defect-free inspection image, a predicted synthetic defect image with a predicted defect that accords with the defect attribute combination.
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