Scanning electron-microscope (SEM) has been successfully applied to CD measurement as promising tools for qualifying and controlling quality of semiconductor devices in in-line manufacturing process since 1985. Furthermore SEM is proposed to be applied to in-die overlay monitor in the local area which is too small to be measured by optical overlay measurement tools any more, when the overlay control limit is going to be stringent and have un-ignorable dependence on device pattern layout, in-die location, and singular locations in wafer edge, etc. In this paper, we proposed new overlay measurement and inspection system to make an effective use of in-line SEM image, in consideration of trade-off between measurement uncertainty and measurement pattern density in each SEM conditions. In parallel, we make it clear that the best hybrid overlay metrology is in considering each tool’s technology portfolio.
The telescope geometry of JASMINE should be stabilized and monitored with the accuracy of about 10 to 100
picometer or 10 to 100 picoradian in root-mean-square over about 10 hours. For this purpose, a high-precision
interferometric laser metrology system is employed. One of useful techniques for measuring displacements in
extremely minute scales is the heterodyne interferometrical method. Experiment for verification of multi degree
of freedom measurement was performed and mirror motions were successfully monitored with three degree of
freedom.
The JASMINE instrument uses a beam combiner to observe two different fields of view separated by 99.5
degrees simultaneously. This angle is so-called basic angle. The basic angle of JASMINE should be stabilized
and fluctuations of the basic angle should be monitored with the accuracy of 10 microarcsec in root-mean-square
over the satellite revolution period of 5 hours. For this purpose, a high-precision interferometric laser metrogy
system is employed. One of the available techniques for measuring the fluctuations of the basic angle is a method
known as the wave front sensing using a Fabry-Perot type laser interferometer. This technique is to detect
fluctuations of the basic angle as displacement of optical axis in the Fabry-Perot cavity. One of the advantages
of the technique is that the sensor is made to be sensitive only to the relative fluctuations of the basic angle
which the JASMINE wants to know and to be insensitive to the common one; in order to make the optical axis
displacement caused by relative motion enhanced the Fabry-Perot cavity is formed by two mirrors which have
long radius of curvature. To verify the principle of this idea, the experiment was performed using a 0.1m-length
Fabry-Perot cavity with the mirror curvature of 20m. The mirrors of the cavity were artificially actuated in
either relative way or common way and the resultant outputs from the sensor were compared.
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