Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method that utilize efficient patterning means. SOLUTION: The present invention includes a lithographic apparatus and a device manufacturing method that uses a patterning apparatus that increases the number of individually controllable elements to be simultaneously programmed, in order to increase the update speed of an array of the individually controllable elements. Thus, the number of high-speed analog inputs required for the array is decreased, the complexity of the array is reduced, and the maximum update speed of the array is increased. Furthermore, the number of elements in the array can be increased easily. The patterning apparatus is divided into a plurality of cell groups, and the lithographic apparatus may include a plurality of supply channels. Each supply channel is disposed such that it supplies a voltage signal to each cell that corresponds to the cell group. Thus, the required number of inputs to the patterning apparatus for individually addressing each cell is reduced. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for obtaining focus information relating to a lithographic process. The method includes illuminating a target, the target having alternating first and second structures, wherein the form of the second structures is focus dependent, while the form of the first structures does not have the same focus dependence as that of the second structures, and detecting radiation redirected by the target to obtain for that target an asymmetry measurement representing an overall asymmetry of the target, wherein the asymmetry measurement is indicative of focus of the beam forming the target. An associated mask for forming such a target, and a substrate having such a target.