Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Inspection method and apparatus, substrates for use therein and device manufacturing method
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Application No.: US14892880Application Date: 2014-05-02
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Publication No.: US09835954B2Publication Date: 2017-12-05
- Inventor: Erik Willem Bogaart , Franciscus Godefridus Casper Bijnen , Arie Jeffrey Den Boef , Simon Gijsbert Josephus Mathijssen
- Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Veldhoven
- Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
- Current Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Veldhoven
- Agency: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
- International Application: PCT/EP2014/058996 WO 20140502
- International Announcement: WO2014/187656 WO 20141127
- Main IPC: G03F7/00
- IPC: G03F7/00 ; G01N21/95 ; G03F7/20 ; G01N21/956 ; G01N21/65

Abstract:
A substrate is provided with device structures and metrology structures (800). The device structures include materials exhibiting inelastic scattering of excitation radiation of one or more wavelengths. The device structures include structures small enough in one or more dimensions that the characteristics of the inelastic scattering are influenced significantly by quantum confinement. The metrology structures (800) include device-like structures (800b) similar in composition and dimensions to the device features, and calibration structures (800a). The calibration structures are similar to the device features in composition but different in at least one dimension. Using an inspection apparatus and method implementing Raman spectroscopy, the dimensions of the device-like structures can be measured by comparing spectral features of radiation scattered inelastically from the device-like structure and the calibration structure.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160097983A1 Inspection Method and Apparatus, Substrates for use Therein and Device Manufacturing Method Public/Granted day:2016-04-07
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