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- Patent Title: Method of determining dose and focus, inspection apparatus, patterning device, substrate and device manufacturing method
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Application No.: US14648445Application Date: 2013-11-22
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Publication No.: US09964853B2Publication Date: 2018-05-08
- Inventor: Peter Clement Paul Vanoppen , Eric Jos Anton Brouwer , Hugo Augustinus Joseph Cramer , Jan Hendrik Den Besten , Adrianus Franciscus Petrus Engelen , Paul Christiaan Hinnen
- 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/EP2013/074516 WO 20131122
- International Announcement: WO2014/082938 WO 20140605
- Main IPC: G03B27/52
- IPC: G03B27/52 ; G03F7/20 ; G01N21/47

Abstract:
A method of determining exposure dose of a lithographic apparatus used in a lithographic process on a substrate. Using the lithographic process to produce a first structure on the substrate, the first structure having a dose-sensitive feature which has a form that depends on exposure dose of the lithographic apparatus on the substrate. Using the lithographic process to produce a second structure on the substrate, the second structure having a dose-sensitive feature which has a form that depends on the exposure dose of the lithographic apparatus but which has a different sensitivity to the exposure dose than the first structure. Detecting scattered radiation while illuminating the first and second structures with radiation to obtain first and second scatterometer signals. Using the first and second scatterometer signals to determine an exposure dose value used to produce at least one of the first and second structures.
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