In situ aberration measurement technique based on multi-illumination settings and principal component analysis of aerial images

The impact of lens aberrations becomes severe when the critical dimensions (CDs) shrink. The accurate measurement of both low- and high-order Zernike aberrations is important during a photolithographic process. Based on the multi-illumination settings and principal component analysis of aerial images, a novel in situ aberration measurement technique that can accurately measure all the Zernike aberrations, except for the sinusoidal 2-θ and sinusoidal 4-θ terms (under polar coordinates, and Z 1 to Z 4 are not considered) is proposed in this letter. The estimated maximum error of the Zernike aberrations ranges from 0.43 to 0.78 mλ when the amplitudes of the Zernike coefficients range from -20 to 20 mλ. The standard and root mean square errors are both in the range from 0.14 to 0.4 mλ.     

基于多偏振照明的浸没式光刻机投影物镜高阶波像差快速检测技术

提出了一种基于多偏振照明的浸没式光刻机投影物镜高阶波像差快速检测技术。通过采用一元线性采样方式,在不同偏振照明条件下采集浸没式光刻机投影物镜的空间像进行主成分分析,在快速建模的同时实现高阶波像差的高精度检测。与基于Box-Behnken Design统计抽样方法的超高数值孔径光刻投影物镜高阶波像差检测方法相比,所提技术有效降低了采样数,提高了采样效率,加快了建模速度。采用光刻仿真软件PROLITH对所提技术进行了仿真验证,并分析了照明方式对高阶波像差检测精度的影响。仿真结果表明,该技术对高阶波像差(Z5~Z64)的检测精度优于1.03×10~(-3)λ,同时其建模速度提升了约30倍。