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    公开(公告)号:DE60124336D1

    公开(公告)日:2006-12-21

    申请号:DE60124336

    申请日:2001-04-26

    Abstract: Alignment to buried marks is carried out by using electromagnetic radiation to induce waves in the layers covering the buried layer. The acoustic or thermal waves cause reflectivity changes and displacements in the surface whose position and/or time dependence reveals the true position of the buried alignment mark. The buried alignment mark may be revealed by mapping the thickness of covering layers in its vicinity, e.g. by measuring the time dependence of the decay of a standing wave induced in the covering layers or by measuring the delay time of echoes of a travelling wave created at interfaces between different ones of the covering layers. Alternatively, a travelling wave can be created over the whole area of the mark so that echoes off the top and bottom of the buried mark carry positive and negative images of the mark; these cause reflectivity differences and displacements when they reach the surface which can be aligned to.

    Lithographic apparatus, device manufacturing method, and device manufactured thereby

    公开(公告)号:SG123587A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-07-26

    申请号:SG200307483

    申请日:2003-12-15

    Abstract: During device manufacturing, a beam of radiation is projected onto a substrate via a mask. The substrate is aligned with the mask using an alignment structure on the substrate, with properties of the light reflected from (or transmitted by) the alignment structure being used to determine the relative position of the substrate. Earlier processing of the substrate may cause errors in the position determined from the reflected light. In one embodiment of the invention, measurement of properties of the reflected light are used to determine a correction for errors caused by processing of the substrate. Parameters of a physical model of the alignment structure may be estimated from the reflected light and used to determine the correction. Amplitudes of a plurality of different diffraction peaks may be measured to determine the correction.

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