Assessment of silicon carbide x-ray mask overlay performance in the IBM Advanced Lithography Facility x-ray stepper

Kurt R. Kimmel; Alek C. Chen; Lynn A. Powers; Ben R. Vampatella

doi:10.1117/12.209176

19 May 1995 Assessment of silicon carbide x-ray mask overlay performance in the IBM Advanced Lithography Facility x-ray stepper

Kurt R. Kimmel, Alek C. Chen, Lynn A. Powers, Ben R. Vampatella

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Proceedings Volume 2437, Electron-Beam, X-Ray, EUV, and Ion-Beam Submicrometer Lithographies for Manufacturing V; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.209176
Event: SPIE's 1995 Symposium on Microlithography, 1995, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a study to explicitly assess the performance of silicon carbide masks by directly measuring overlay accuracy and precision of exposures made on a state-of-the-art commercially available x-ray stepper, the Suss XRS200/3. The work was done using a mask fabricated at IBM from silicon carbide coated wafers obtained from HOYA Electronics Corp. with exposures completed at IBM's Advanced Lithography Facility (ALF) using synchrotron-generated radiation. The mask pattern design contains many overlay measurement fiducials, resolution patterns, and alignment verniers, and two sets of three alignment marks: one set inboard (kerf) and one set outboard. The performance of an imaging-based alignment system, such as the ALX system on the Suss XRS200/3 steppers, varies depending upon the optical characteristics of the alignment marks on the mask and wafer.

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Kurt R. Kimmel, Alek C. Chen, Lynn A. Powers, and Ben R. Vampatella "Assessment of silicon carbide x-ray mask overlay performance in the IBM Advanced Lithography Facility x-ray stepper", Proc. SPIE 2437, Electron-Beam, X-Ray, EUV, and Ion-Beam Submicrometer Lithographies for Manufacturing V, (19 May 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.209176

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