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Rana et al., 2014 - Google Patents

Leveraging advanced data analytics, machine learning, and metrology models to enable critical dimension metrology solutions for advanced integrated circuit nodes

Rana et al., 2014

Document ID
12421410047697096602
Author
Rana N
Zhang Y
Kagalwala T
Bailey T
Publication year
Publication venue
Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS

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Integrated circuit (IC) technology is changing in multiple ways: 193i to extreme ultraviolet exposure, planar to nonplanar device architecture, from single exposure lithography to multiple exposure and directed self-assembly (DSA) patterning, and so on. Critical …
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Classifications

    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03F—PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR
    • G03F7/00—Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printing surfaces; Materials therefor, e.g. comprising photoresists; Apparatus specially adapted therefor
    • G03F7/70—Exposure apparatus for microlithography
    • G03F7/70483—Information management, control, testing, and wafer monitoring, e.g. pattern monitoring
    • G03F7/70491—Information management and control, including software
    • G03F7/705—Modelling and simulation from physical phenomena up to complete wafer process or whole workflow in wafer fabrication
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03F—PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR
    • G03F7/00—Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printing surfaces; Materials therefor, e.g. comprising photoresists; Apparatus specially adapted therefor
    • G03F7/70—Exposure apparatus for microlithography
    • G03F7/70483—Information management, control, testing, and wafer monitoring, e.g. pattern monitoring
    • G03F7/70616—Wafer pattern monitoring, i.e. measuring printed patterns or the aerial image at the wafer plane
    • G03F7/70625—Pattern dimensions, e.g. line width, profile, sidewall angle, edge roughness
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRICAL DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F17/00—Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions
    • G06F17/50—Computer-aided design
    • G06F17/5068—Physical circuit design, e.g. layout for integrated circuits or printed circuit boards
    • G06F17/5081—Layout analysis, e.g. layout verification, design rule check

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