Method and Apparatus for Determining a Radiation Beam Intensity Profile

    公开(公告)号:US20200098486A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-26

    申请号:US16556603

    申请日:2019-08-30

    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining an intensity profile of a radiation beam. The method comprises providing a diffraction structure, causing relative movement of the diffraction structure relative to the radiation beam from a first position wherein the radiation beam does not irradiate the diffraction structure to a second position wherein the radiation beam irradiates the diffraction structure, measuring, with a radiation detector, diffracted radiation signals produced from diffraction of the radiation beam by the diffraction structure as the diffraction structure transitions from the first position to the second position or vice versa, and determining the intensity profile of the radiation beam based on the measured diffracted radiation signals.

    METROLOGY MEASUREMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20230100123A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US17910118

    申请日:2021-03-03

    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining a parameter of a structure fabricated in or on a substrate and compensated for a drift error. The methods comprising: illuminating, at a plurality of times, at least part of the structure with electromagnetic radiation, the at least part of the structure being at a first orientation; sensing, at the plurality of times, a plurality of average reflectances of the at least part of the structure; and determining, based on the plurality of average reflectances, an estimation of the parameter at one or more further times.

    DETERMINING AN EDGE ROUGHNESS PARAMETER OF A PERIODIC STRUCTURE

    公开(公告)号:US20190025706A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-24

    申请号:US16028917

    申请日:2018-07-06

    Abstract: In a method of determining an edge roughness parameter of a periodic structure, the periodic structure is illuminated (602) in an inspection apparatus. The illumination radiation beam may comprise radiation with a wavelength in the range 1 nm to 100 nm. A scattering signal (604) is obtained from a radiation beam scattered from the periodic structure. The scattering signal comprises a scattering intensity signal that is obtained by detecting an image of a far-field diffraction pattern in the inspection apparatus. An edge roughness parameter, such as Lined Edge Roughness and/or Line Width Roughness is determined (606) based on a distribution of the scattering intensity signal around a non-specular diffraction order. This may be done for example using a peak broadening model.

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