MARK POSITION MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD, LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD.

    公开(公告)号:NL2011477A

    公开(公告)日:2014-04-14

    申请号:NL2011477

    申请日:2013-09-20

    Abstract: An apparatus to measure the position of a mark, the apparatus including an illumination arrangement to direct radiation across a pupil of the apparatus, the illumination arrangement including an illumination source to provide multiple-wavelength radiation of substantially equal polarization and a wave plate to alter the polarization of the radiation in dependency of the wavelength, such that radiation of different polarization is supplied; an objective to direct radiation on the mark using the radiation supplied by the illumination arrangement while scanning the radiation across the mark in a scanning direction; a radiation processing element to process radiation that is diffracted by the mark and received by the objective; and a detection arrangement to detect variation in an intensity of radiation output by the radiation processing element during the scanning and to calculate from the detected variation a position of the mark in at least a first direction of measurement.

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