Actinic defect counting statistics over 1-cm2 area of EUVL mask blank

Seongtae Jeong; Chih-wei Lai; Senajith Rekawa; Christopher C. Walton; Jeffrey Bokor

doi:10.1117/12.390080

21 July 2000 Actinic defect counting statistics over 1-cm2 area of EUVL mask blank

Seongtae Jeong, Chih-wei Lai, Senajith Rekawa, Christopher C. Walton, Jeffrey Bokor

Proceedings Volume 3997, Emerging Lithographic Technologies IV; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.390080
Event: Microlithography 2000, 2000, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

As a continuation of comparison experiments between EUV inspection and visible inspection of defects on EUVL mask blanks, we report on the result of an experiment where the EUV defect inspection tool is used to perform at-wavelength defect counting over 1 cm² of EUVL mask blank. Initial EUV inspection found five defects over the scanned area and the subsequent optical scattering inspection was able to detect all of the five defects. Therefore, if there are any defects that are only detectable by EUV inspection, the density is lower than the order of unity per cm². An upgrade path to substantially increase the overall throughput of the EUV inspection system is also identified in the manuscript.

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Seongtae Jeong, Chih-wei Lai, Senajith Rekawa, Christopher C. Walton, and Jeffrey Bokor "Actinic defect counting statistics over 1-cm2 area of EUVL mask blank", Proc. SPIE 3997, Emerging Lithographic Technologies IV, (21 July 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.390080

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