Overlay error budgets for a high-throughput SCALPEL system

Stuart T. Stanton; Reginald C. Farrow; Gregg M. Gallatin; James Alexander Liddle; Warren K. Waskiewicz

doi:10.1117/12.351127

25 June 1999 Overlay error budgets for a high-throughput SCALPEL system

Stuart T. Stanton, Reginald C. Farrow, Gregg M. Gallatin, James Alexander Liddle, Warren K. Waskiewicz

Proceedings Volume 3676, Emerging Lithographic Technologies III; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.351127
Event: Microlithography '99, 1999, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

The implementation of SCALPEL for post-optical production lithography generations, including mix-and-match options, involves unique issues in alignment and overlay. SCALPEL's use of stitching modifies the familiar analysis of overlay errors. Stitching may produce a small, localized image- placement error, but it creates negligible fixed image distortion. It also allows sub-field placement adjustments to correct some of the distortion errors in mix-and-match optimization. SCALPEL can use existing off-axis alignment sensor technologies, but a preferred electron back-scatter technique offers robustness and versatility. For high- throughput operation, a form of global alignment similar to that of full-field tools is likely, but implemented with the dynamic alignment mark scanning capabilities available in the writing strategy. Finally, it is expected that wafer- heating correction issues will factor into the coupled development of optimum writing and alignment strategies, possibly introducing novel mixed operating modes of fine alignment. We shall discus our present overlay error budgets, representing these unique challenges and opportunities for developing a high-throughput SCALPEL tool.

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Stuart T. Stanton, Reginald C. Farrow, Gregg M. Gallatin, James Alexander Liddle, and Warren K. Waskiewicz "Overlay error budgets for a high-throughput SCALPEL system", Proc. SPIE 3676, Emerging Lithographic Technologies III, (25 June 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.351127

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