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1.发明公开公开(公告)号：US20240094641A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-21
申请号：US18255543
申请日：2021-12-02
Applicant: ASML Holding N.V. , ASML Netherlands B.V.
Inventor： Justin Lloyd KREUZER , Simon Reinald HUISMAN , Sebastianus Adrianus GOORDEN , Filippo ALPEGGIANI
IPC: G03F7/00
CPC classification number: G03F7/70633 , G03F7/706837 , G03F7/706849
Abstract: The system includes a radiation source, a diffractive element, an optical system, a detector, and a processor. The radiation source generates radiation. The diffractive element diffracts the radiation to generate a first beam and a second beam. The first beam includes a first non-zero diffraction order and the second beam includes a second non-zero diffraction order that is different from the first non-zero diffraction order. The optical system receives a first scattered beam and a second scattered radiation beam from a target structure and directs the first scattered beam and the second scattered beam towards a detector. The detector generates a detection signal. The processor analyzes the detection signal to determine a target structure property based on at least the detection signal. The first beam is attenuated with respect to the second beam or the first scattered beam is purposely attenuated with respect to the second scattered beam.
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2.发明公开公开(公告)号：US20230213871A1
公开(公告)日：2023-07-06
申请号：US18000087
申请日：2021-05-14
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V. , ASML Holding N.V.
Inventor： Sebastianus Adrianus GOORDEN , Filippo ALPEGGIANI , Simon Reinald HUISMAN , Johannes Jacobus Matheus BASELMANS , Haico Victor KOK , Mohamed SWILLAM , Arjan Johannes Anton BEUKMAN
CPC classification number: G03F7/70625 , G01B11/272 , G03F9/7049
Abstract: A metrology system includes a radiation source, first, second, and third optical systems, and a processor. The first optical system splits the radiation into first and second beams of radiation and impart one or more phase differences between the first and second beams. The second optical system directs the first and second beams toward a target structure to produce first and second scattered beams of radiation. The third optical system interferes the first and second scattered beams at an imaging detector. The imaging detector generates a detection signal based on the interfered first and second scattered beams. The metrology system modulates one or more phase differences of the first and second scattered beams based on the imparted one or more phase differences. The processor analyzes the detection signal to determine a property of the target structure based on at least the modulated one or more phase differences.
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公开(公告)号：US20220397833A1
公开(公告)日：2022-12-15
申请号：US17633884
申请日：2020-08-05
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V. , ASML Holding N.V.
Inventor： Franciscus Godefridus Casper BIJNEN , Muhsin ERALP , Simon Reinald HUISMAN , Arie Jeffrey DEN BOEF
IPC: G03F9/00
Abstract: An alignment apparatus includes an illumination system configured to direct one or more illumination beams towards an alignment target and receive the diffracted beams from the alignment target. The alignment apparatus also includes a self-referencing Interferometer configured to generate two diffraction sub-beams, wherein the two diffraction sub-beams are orthogonally polarized, rotated 180 degrees with respect to each other around an alignment axis, and spatially overlapped. The alignment apparatus further includes a beam analyzer configured to generate interference between the overlapped components of the diffraction sub-beams and produce two orthogonally polarized optical branches, and a detection system configured to determine a position of the alignment target based on light intensity measurement of the optical branches, wherein the measured light intensity is temporally modulated by a phase modulator.
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公开(公告)号：US20220035257A1
公开(公告)日：2022-02-03
申请号：US17277353
申请日：2019-08-27
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
Inventor： Sebastianus Adrianus GOORDEN , Simon Reinald HUISMAN , Simon Gijsbert Josephus MATHIJSSEN , Henricus Petrus Maria PELLEMANS
IPC: G03F7/20
Abstract: Disclosed is a metrology device (1600) configured to produce measurement illumination comprising a plurality of illumination beams, each of said illumination beams being spatially incoherent or pseudo-spatially incoherent and comprising multiple pupil points in an illumination pupil of the metrology device. Each pupil point in each one of said plurality of illumination beams has a corresponding pupil point in at least one of the other illumination beams of said plurality of illumination beams thereby defining multiple sets of corresponding pupil points, and the pupil points of each set of corresponding pupil points are spatially coherent with respect to each other.
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公开(公告)号：US20240027913A1
公开(公告)日：2024-01-25
申请号：US18255261
申请日：2021-12-02
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V. , ASML Holding N.V.
Inventor： Sergei SOKOLOV , Simon Reinald HUISMAN , Jin LIAN , Sebastianus Adrianus GOORDEN , Muhsin ERALP , Henricus Petrus Maria PELLEMANS , Justin Lloyd KREUZER
IPC: G03F7/00
CPC classification number: G03F7/70091 , G03F7/70625 , G03F7/70633
Abstract: A metrology system (400) includes a multi-source radiation system. The multi-source radiation system includes a waveguide device (502) and the multi-source radiation system is configured to generate one or more beams of radiation. The metrology system (400) further includes a coherence adjuster (500) including a multimode waveguide device (504). The multimode waveguide device (504) includes an input configured to receive the one or more beams of radiation from the multi-source radiation system (514) and an output (518) configured to output a coherence adjusted beam of radiation for irradiating a target (418). The metrology system (400) further includes an actuator (506) coupled to the waveguide device (502) and configured to actuate the waveguide device (502) so as to change an impingement characteristic of the one or more beams of radiation at the input of the multimode waveguide device (504).
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公开(公告)号：US20220283515A1
公开(公告)日：2022-09-08
申请号：US17637156
申请日：2020-08-25
Applicant: ASML HOLDING N.V. , ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
Inventor： Tamer Mohamed Tawfik Ahmed Mohamed ELAZHARY , Simon Reinald HUISMAN , Justin Lloyd KREUZER , Sebastianus Adrianus GOORDEN
IPC: G03F7/20
Abstract: A method of determining an overlay measurement associated with a substrate and a system to obtain an overlay measurement associated with a patterning process. A method for determining an overlay measurement may be used in a lithography patterning process. The method includes generating a diffraction signal by illuminating a first overlay pattern and a second overlay pattern using a coherent beam. The method also includes obtaining an interference pattern based on the diffraction signal. The method further includes determining an overlay measurement between the first overlay pattern and the second overlay pattern based on the interference pattern.
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公开(公告)号：US20220121128A1
公开(公告)日：2022-04-21
申请号：US17565422
申请日：2021-12-29
Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
IPC: G03F7/20
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of metrology comprising using measurement illumination to measure a target, said measurement illumination comprising a plurality of illumination conditions. The method comprises performing a first measurement capture with a first subset of said plurality of illumination conditions, e.g., each comprising a positive weighting, to obtain a first parameter value and performing a second measurement capture with a second subset of said plurality of illumination conditions, e.g., each comprising a negative weighting, to obtain a second parameter value. An optimized parameter value is determined as a weighted combination of at least the first parameter value and the second parameter value.
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公开(公告)号：US20210157248A1
公开(公告)日：2021-05-27
申请号：US16613551
申请日：2018-04-13
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V. , ASML Holding N.V.
Inventor： Sebastianus Adrianus GOORDEN , Johannes Antonius Gerardus AKKERMANS , Simon Reinald HUISMAN , Tamer Mohamed Tawfik Ahmed Mohamed ELAZHARY
Abstract: Disclosed is a metrology sensor apparatus comprising: an illumination system operable to illuminate a metrology mark in on a substrate with illumination radiation; an optical collection system configured to collect scattered radiation, following scattering of the illumination radiation by the metrology mark; and a wavelength dependent spatial filter for spatially filtering the scattered radiation, the wavelength dependent spatial filter having a spatial profile dependent on the wavelength of the scattered radiation. The wavelength dependent spatial filter may comprise a dichroic filter operable to substantially transmit scattered radiation within a first wavelength range and substantially block scattered radiation within a second wavelength range and at least one second filter operable to substantially block scattered radiation at least within the first wavelength range and the second wavelength range.
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公开(公告)号：US20200089135A1
公开(公告)日：2020-03-19
申请号：US16470905
申请日：2017-11-15
Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
Inventor： Sebastianus Adrianus GOORDEN , Nitesh PANDEY , Duygu AKBULUT , Alessandro POLO , Simon Reinald HUISMAN
Abstract: Disclosed is a metrology sensor system, such as a position sensor. The system comprises an optical collection system configured to collect diffracted or scattered radiation from a metrology mark on a substrate, said collected radiation comprising at least one parameter-sensitive signal and noise signal which is not parameter-sensitive, a processing system operable to process the collected radiation; and a module housing. An optical guide is provided for guiding the at least one parameter-sensitive signal, separated from the noise signal, from the processing system to a detection system outside of the housing. A detector detects the separated at least one parameter-sensitive signal. An obscuration for blocking zeroth order radiation and/or a demagnifying optical system may be provided between the optical guide and the detector.
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公开(公告)号：US20190302570A1
公开(公告)日：2019-10-03
申请号：US16307376
申请日：2017-06-01
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
Inventor： Nitish KUMAR , Simon Reinald HUISMAN
Abstract: A supercontinuum radiation source for an alignment mark measurement system comprises: a radiation source; illumination optics; a plurality of waveguides; and collection optics. The radiation source is operable to produce a pulsed radiation beam. The illumination optics is arranged to receive the pulsed pump radiation beam and to form a plurality of pulsed sub-beams, each pulsed sub-beam comprising a portion of the pulsed radiation beam. Each of the plurality of waveguides is arranged to receive at least one of the plurality of pulsed sub-beams beam and to broaden a spectrum of that pulsed sub-beam so as to generate a supercontinuum sub-beam. The collection optics is arranged to receive the supercontinuum sub-beam from each of the plurality of waveguides and to combine them so as to form a supercontinuum radiation beam.
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