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公开(公告)号:US20240280892A1
公开(公告)日:2024-08-22
申请号:US18443486
申请日:2024-02-16
Applicant: Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd.
Inventor: Vladimir Dmitriev , Avi Cohen , Kujan Gorhad , Hani Zeidan
CPC classification number: G03F1/36 , G03F1/72 , G03F7/70508
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for correcting placement errors in a photolithographic mask comprising a substrate and structures formed on the substrate, the method involving at least one local density change, preferably a plurality of local density changes, each of which defines a pixel, being introduced into the substrate by use of a laser beam in order to correct placement errors of the structures, wherein in an examination step, an incidence surface of the mask, via which the laser beam radiates into the substrate, is examined for contaminations and, in regions in which a contamination of the incidence surface has been ascertained in the examination step, no laser irradiation or a laser irradiation with at least one changed laser beam parameter takes place, the laser beam parameter(s) being changed such that no damage to the incidence surface or near-surface regions occurs in the case of an interaction between laser beam and contamination.
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公开(公告)号:US20230053667A1
公开(公告)日:2023-02-23
申请号:US17882948
申请日:2022-08-08
Applicant: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH , Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd.
Inventor: Sergey Oshemkov , Shao-Chi Wei , Joerg Frederik Blumrich , Martin Voelcker , Thomas Franz Karl Scheruebl
IPC: G03F7/20
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for removing particles from a mask system for a projection exposure apparatus, comprising the following method steps: detecting the particle in the mask system, providing laser radiation, removing the particle by irradiating the particle with laser radiation. According to the invention, the wavelength of the laser radiation corresponds to that of used radiation used by the projection exposure apparatus.
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公开(公告)号:US11385539B2
公开(公告)日:2022-07-12
申请号:US16747818
申请日:2020-01-21
Applicant: Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd.
Inventor: Joachim Welte
Abstract: Method for compensating at least one defect of a mask blank, wherein the method includes the following steps: (a) obtaining data in respect of a position of the at least one defect of the mask blank; (b) obtaining design data for pattern elements which should be produced on the mask blank; (c) determining whether the at least one defect is arranged relative to a pattern element to be produced in such a way that it has substantially no effect when exposing a wafer using the mask blank that is provided with the pattern element to be produced; and (d) otherwise, displacing the at least one defect on the mask blank in such a way that it has substantially no effect when exposing the wafer using the mask blank that is provided with the pattern element to be produced.
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公开(公告)号:US11366382B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-21
申请号:US16798696
申请日:2020-02-24
Applicant: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH , Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd.
Inventor: Vladimir Dmitriev , Joachim Welte , Bernd Geh , Paul Graeupner , Anja Schauer
Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for performing an aerial image simulation of a photolithographic mask which comprises the following steps: (a) modifying an optical radiation distribution at a patterned surface of the photolithographic mask, depending on at least one first arrangement of pixels to be generated in the photolithographic mask; and (b) performing the aerial image simulation of the photolithographic mask by using the generated modified optical radiation distribution.
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公开(公告)号:US10353295B2
公开(公告)日:2019-07-16
申请号:US15272936
申请日:2016-09-22
Applicant: Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd. , Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
Inventor: Vladimir Dmitriev , Bernd Geh
Abstract: A method for generating a predetermined three-dimensional contour of a component and/or a wafer comprises: (a) determining a deviation of an existing three-dimensional contour of the component and/or the wafer from the predetermined three-dimensional contour; (b) calculating at least one three-dimensional arrangement of laser pulses having one or more parameter sets defining the laser pulses for correcting the determined existing deviation of the three-dimensional contour from the predetermined three-dimensional contour; and (c) applying the calculated at least one three-dimensional arrangement of laser pulses on the component and/or the wafer for generating the predetermined three-dimensional contour.
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公开(公告)号:US20190107783A1
公开(公告)日:2019-04-11
申请号:US16152784
申请日:2018-10-05
Applicant: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH , Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd.
Inventor: Thomas Thaler , Joachim Welte , Kujan Gorhad , Vladimir Dmitriev , Ute Buttgereit , Thomas Scheruebl , Yuval Perets
IPC: G03F7/20
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for correcting the critical dimension uniformity of a photomask for semiconductor lithography, comprising the following steps: determining a transfer coefficient as a calibration parameter, correcting the photomask by writing pixel fields, verifying the photomask corrected thus, wherein a transfer coefficient is used for verifying the corrected photomask, said transfer coefficient being obtained from a measured scattering function of pixel fields.
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公开(公告)号:US09798249B2
公开(公告)日:2017-10-24
申请号:US14457712
申请日:2014-08-12
Applicant: Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd. , Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
Inventor: Vladimir Dmitriev , Ingo Saenger , Frank Schlesener , Markus Mengel , Johannes Ruoff
CPC classification number: G03F7/70591 , G01M11/0242 , G02B5/3091 , G02B27/0043 , G03F7/70191 , G03F7/70308 , G03F7/70566
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for compensating at least one defect of an optical system which includes introducing an arrangement of local persistent modifications in at least one optical element of the optical system, which does not have pattern elements on one of its optical surfaces, so that the at least one defect is at least partially compensated.
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公开(公告)号:US20160004151A1
公开(公告)日:2016-01-07
申请号:US14767263
申请日:2014-02-17
Applicant: CARL ZEISS SMS LTD
Inventor: Sergey Oshemkov
IPC: G03F1/72
Abstract: A method for repairing a defect on a substrate surface includes placing on the defect a nanoparticle that includes a conductive material. A region of the substrate surface in which the nanoparticle is placed is irradiated, the region being larger than the nanoparticle. An energy density of the irradiation is below a modification threshold for the substrate surface.
Abstract translation: 用于修复衬底表面上的缺陷的方法包括在缺陷上放置包括导电材料的纳米颗粒。 照射放置纳米颗粒的基板表面的区域,该区域大于纳米颗粒。 照射的能量密度低于衬底表面的修改阈值。
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公开(公告)号:US20240402591A1
公开(公告)日:2024-12-05
申请号:US18731149
申请日:2024-05-31
Applicant: Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd.
Inventor: Vladimir Dmitriev , Sergey Oshemkov , Alexander Gusarov , Avi Cohen
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for correcting a reflective lithography mask, wherein the mask comprises a substrate and a reflective multilayer stack, the method comprising: applying a first electromagnetic radiation to the mask to evoke a first material change within the mask which modifies a reflectivity of the mask. The present disclosure further relates to an apparatus for correcting a reflective lithography mask and a reflective lithography mask.
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公开(公告)号:US11366383B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-21
申请号:US16589515
申请日:2019-10-01
Applicant: Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd.
Inventor: Vladimir Dmitriev , Kujan Gorhad , Joachim Welte , Tanya Serzhanyuk
Abstract: The present invention refers to a method and an apparatus for determining positions of a plurality of pixels to be introduced into a substrate of a photolithographic mask by use of a laser system, wherein the pixels serve to at least partly correct one or more errors of the photolithographic mask. The method comprises the steps: (a) obtaining error data associated with the one or more errors; (b) obtaining first parameters of an illumination system, the first parameters determining an illumination of the photolithographic mask of the illumination system when processing a wafer by illuminating with the illumination system using the photolithographic mask; and (c) determining the positions of the plurality of pixels based on the error data and the first parameters.
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