Abstract:
A displacement measuring system, a lithography device, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided to reduce sensitivity against an error and to decrease an installation space thereof. A displacement measuring system comprises first and second diffraction lattices, a sensor(216), and at least one linear polarizer(217,218). The first diffraction lattice is used to divide a first beam of inputted radiation into first positive and negative diffraction radiation beams(212,213). The first positive and negative diffraction radiation beams are diffracted more by the second diffraction lattice. The sensor is used to decide a relative displacement between the first and second diffraction lattices from a decision of a phase difference between a first component of the second beam deduced from the first positive diffraction radiation beam, and a second component of the second beam deduced from the first negative diffraction radiation beam. The linear polarizer is formed to diffract the first and second components of the second beam linearly and to position and cross the first and second components mutually. A lithography device is used to detect the displacement of the first component thereof against the second component thereof.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve accuracy of position measurement of a stage in a lithographic apparatus. SOLUTION: A stage system includes a movable stage, at least two encoder heads each of which supplies an encoder signal representing a position of the movable stage relative to an encoder target structure, and a controller, for controlling the position of the stage, to which the encoder signals from each of the encoder head is supplied, wherein the controller applies weighting function to the encoder signals and determines the position of the stage from the weighted encoder signals. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve stage position measurement accuracy of a stage. SOLUTION: A position measurement system to measure a position of a movable stage includes: a reference plate; a plurality of sensors arranged such that, depending on a position of the movable stage relative to the reference plate, at least a subset of the plurality of sensors is configured to cooperate with the reference plate to provide, for each of the sensors in the subset, respective sensor signals representative of positions of the respective sensors relative to the reference plate; and a processor arranged to determine, from the sensor signals, a stage position. The processing device is configured to, when the stage is in a position where an over-determined number of sensor signals is provided by at least the subset of the sensors that are in operational cooperation with the reference plate, (a) determine the stage position from a subset of the over-determined number of sensor signals, and (b) correct a sensor signal of one or more of the sensors from a discrepancy between the determined stage position and a remainder of the sensors signals. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an encoder-type high accuracy measurement system configured to measure a position signal, wherein measurement accuracy is substantially almost unaffected by disturbance brought about by the movement of a movable object. SOLUTION: The measurement system is configured to measure a position signal of a movable object, including at least one sensor mountable on the movable object, a sensor target object mountable on a substantially stationary frame, and a mounting device configured for mounting the sensor target object on the substantially stationary frame. The measurement system further includes a compensation device, configured for compensating the movements and/or the deformations of the sensor target object with respect to the substantially stationary frame. The compensation device may include a passive or an active damping device and/or a feedback position control system. The compensation device can include a gripping device which fixes the position of the sensor target object during a movement of the movable object. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lithographic apparatus, a method of manufacturing device and an anglar decoder. SOLUTION: A system for measuring the position of a projection system PL with respect to a reference frame RF in the lithographic system includes a sensor rigidly mounted in relation to a corresponding sensor of a system for measuring the position of a substrate table WT. Rotation of the projection system PL about its optical axis is measured using an anglar decoder for transmitting a light from a target 41 to two optical paths having an opposite inclination sensitivity. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide method for calibration of diffraction gratings on encoder measurement system between two adjacent calibrated positions. SOLUTION: This method intends to relocate sensor object containing encoder type sensor and one of the diffraction gratings along the sensor object and the other diffraction grating at a regular speed. It includes the process of such a relocation in which the above speed is selected so that disorder substantially-elongated throughout the span shorter than distance between the two adjacent calibrated positions may not followed by the above sensor object and one of the diffraction gratings or may only partially be followed, and the process of measuring location of the sensor object to the diffraction grating in a plurality of locations between the two adjacent calibrated positions during the above relocation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system capable of accurately measuring a substrate table position and/or its displacement in a wide scope without an excessive increase in cost. SOLUTION: Specifically, a displacement measuring system is provided to measure a substrate table displacement within lithography equipment for a reference frame. It comprises a number of displacement sensors attached to the substrate table and a target attached to the reference frame and linked to the correspoding displacement sensor. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To continuously measure the positions of a first substrate stage and a second substrate stage, in a lithographic apparatus for confining a liquid in a space between a final element of a projecting system and a substrate. SOLUTION: The lithographic apparatus includes the first and second substrate stages, and is configured and arranged so as to cooperate in performing a joint movement for making the lithographic apparatus transit from a first arrangement in which the liquid is confined between a first substrate held by the first substrate stage and the final element, to a second arrangement in which the liquid is confined between a second substrate held by the second substrate stage and the final element. In this way, during the joint movement, the liquid is essentially confined within the space with respect to the final element. The lithographic apparatus also includes a position measurement system configured, at least during the joint movement, to measure the positions of the first and second substrate stages. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus having high accuracy in determining a position of a movable object. SOLUTION: The method of manufacturing a device includes projecting a patterned radiation beam to a substrate wherein a position of a movable object is determined with multiple degrees of freedom using many sensors, the number of sensors is larger than the number of degrees of freedom, the position of the movable object is determined with the degrees of freedom using a signal from each of the sensors, and the signal from the sensor is weighed based on difference in noise level of each sensor. The lithography apparatus has improved accuracy in measurement of a position of the movable object and/or superposition ability and focusing ability. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve stability of a device for manipulation and routing of a metrology beam in order to improve metrological accuracy of an interferometer system in a lithographic projection apparatus. SOLUTION: The present invention provides the lithographic projection apparatus equipped with a device for manipulation and routing of at least one portion of a metrology beam of radiation, and the device includes a first and a second optical wedge, wherein the second optical wedge and the first optical wedge having a relative position with respect to each other. At least one portion of the metrology beam enters the device from a first principal surface of the first optical wedge along with an incident optical axis, passes the first optical wedge and the second optical wedge and leaves the second optical wedge from its second principal surface. The first and second optical wedges are configured to rotate or translate at least one portion of the metrology beam with respect to the incident optical axis by changing the relative positions of the first and second optical wedges. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI