Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process monitor mark and the method for using the same
- Patent Title (中): 过程监控标记及其使用方法
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Application No.: US11340910Application Date: 2006-01-27
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Publication No.: US07652284B2Publication Date: 2010-01-26
- Inventor: Chin-Cheng Yang
- Applicant: Chin-Cheng Yang
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: MACRONIX International Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: MACRONIX International Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: J.C. Patents
- Main IPC: G03F9/00
- IPC: G03F9/00 ; H01L23/58

Abstract:
The invention is directed to a mark pattern for forming a process monitor mark in a patterned underlayer to monitor a patterning result of a photoresist layer over the patterned underlayer around the boundary between a peripheral region and a device region of a die, wherein the patterned underlayer is formed by using a first mask having a first pattern in a main region of the first mask and the mark pattern at an unused region of the first mask and the first pattern possesses a first mask critical dimension. The mark pattern comprising: a second pattern and a frame pattern. The second pattern has a second mask critical dimension, wherein the second mask critical dimension is as same as the first mask critical dimension. The frame pattern encloses the second pattern.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070178659A1 Process monitor mark and the method for using the same Public/Granted day:2007-08-02
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