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公开(公告)号:US20220260929A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-18
申请号:US17628668
申请日:2020-07-06
Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V. , ASML HOLDING N.V.
Inventor: Nikhil MEHTA , Maurits VAN DER SCHAAR , Markus Gerardus Martinus Maria VAN KRAAIJ , Hugo Augustinus Joseph CRAMER , Olger Victor ZWIER , Jeroen COTTAAR , Patrick WARNAAR
IPC: G03F7/20 , G03F1/84 , G01N21/956
Abstract: A patterning device for patterning product structures onto a substrate and an associated substrate patterned using such a patterning device. The patterning device includes target patterning elements for patterning at least one target from which a parameter of interest can be inferred. The patterning device includes product patterning elements for patterning the product structures. The target patterning elements and product patterning elements are configured such that the at least one target has at least one boundary which is neither parallel nor perpendicular with respect to the product structures on the substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20220252974A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-11
申请号:US17728608
申请日:2022-04-25
Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V. , ASML HOLDING N.V.
Inventor: David Ferdinand VLES , Erik Achilles ABEGG , Aage BENDIKSEN , Derk Servatius Gertruda BROUNS , Pradeep K. GOVIL , Paul JANSSEN , Maxim Aleksandrovich NASALEVICH , Arnoud Willem NOTENBOOM , Mária PÉTER , Marcus Adrianus VAN DE KERKHOF , Willem Joan VAN DER ZANDE , Pieter-Jan VAN ZWOL , Johannes Petrus Martinus Bernardus VERMEULEN , Willlem-Pieter VOORTHUIJZEN , James Norman WILEY
Abstract: A pellicle suitable for use with a patterning device for a lithographic apparatus. The pellicle comprising at least one breakage region which is configured to preferentially break, during normal use in a lithographic apparatus, prior to breakage of remaining regions of the pellicle. At least one breakage region comprises a region of the pellicle which has a reduced thickness when compared to surrounding regions of the pellicle.
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公开(公告)号:US20220221802A1
公开(公告)日:2022-07-14
申请号:US17614159
申请日:2020-05-19
Applicant: ASML HOLDING N.V.
Inventor: Douglas C. CAPPELLI
IPC: G03F9/00 , G01B9/02097
Abstract: A self-referencing interferometer (SRI) system for an alignment sensor apparatus includes a first prism and a second prism. The first prism has an input surface for an incident beam. The second prism is coupled to the first prism and has an output surface for a recombined beam. The recombined beam includes a first image and a second image rotated by 180 degrees with respect to the first image. The first and second prisms are identical in shape. A dual self-referencing interferometer (DSRI) system for an alignment sensor apparatus includes a first prism assembly having an input surface for a first incident beam and a second incident beam, and a second prism assembly coupled to the first prism assembly and having an output surface for a first recombined beam and a second recombined beam. The first and second prism assemblies are identical in shape.
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公开(公告)号:US20220216092A1
公开(公告)日:2022-07-07
申请号:US17608238
申请日:2020-04-21
Applicant: ASML HOLDING N.V.
Inventor: Bruce TIRRI , Ping ZHOU , Elizabeth Mary STONE , David Hart PETERSON , Mehmet Ali AKBAS , Ryan MAYER , Richard Bryan LEWIS
IPC: H01L21/687 , G03F7/20 , C23C16/513
Abstract: A method of fabricating a substrate table includes supporting a table base and disposing a coating on a surface of the table base. The surface of the table base is substantially flat. The coating has a non-uniform thickness. The coating exerts a stress on the table so as to bend the table base. The non-uniform thickness causes a surface of the coating to become substantially flat after the bending.
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公开(公告)号:US20220179330A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-09
申请号:US17438328
申请日:2020-02-28
Applicant: ASML Holding N.V.
Inventor: Stanislav SMIRNOV
IPC: G03F9/00
Abstract: A method to reduce sensitivity of a level sensor, arranged to measure a height of a substrate, to variations of a property of an optical component in the level sensor includes directing a beam of radiation toward a diffractive element and directing the beam, via an optical system, to a first reflective element at a first angle of incidence. The beam has a first polarization and a second polarization that is perpendicular to the first polarization. The first reflective element reflects the beam toward a second reflective element at a second angle of incidence causing the beam to impinge on the substrate. The first and second angles of incidence are selected to reduce variations of a ratio of intensities of the first polarization to the second polarization of the beam imparted by a property of a layer of at least one of the first and second reflective elements.
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公开(公告)号:US11347152B2
公开(公告)日:2022-05-31
申请号:US16961081
申请日:2018-12-19
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V. , ASML Holding N.V.
Inventor: Cornelis Melchior Brouwer , Krishanu Shome
Abstract: A system for and method of processing a wafer in which a scan signal is analyzed locally to extract information about alignment, overlay, mark quality, wafer quality, and the like.
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公开(公告)号:US20220146948A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-12
申请号:US17438021
申请日:2020-03-06
Applicant: ASML Holding N.V.
IPC: G03F7/20 , H01L21/683
Abstract: An electrostatic clamp for supporting a substrate includes a substrate region, an electrode region at an edge of the substrate region, a support layer, an electrically conductive layer, a contact layer, and an electrode. The support layer has a body having first and second surfaces that are substantially parallel to each other and disposed on opposite sides of the body. A through-hole is disposed in the electrode region and provides access between the first and second surfaces. The electrically conductive layer is disposed on the second surface of the support layer. The contact layer disposed on the electrically conductive layer. The contact layer is uninterrupted in the electrode region and comprises burls in the substrate region. The burls contact the substrate when the electrostatic clamp is supporting the substrate. The electrode is disposed in the through-hole and is electrically coupled to the electrically conductive layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20220134480A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-05
申请号:US17431538
申请日:2020-02-03
Applicant: ASML Holding N.V.
Inventor: Damoon SOHRABIBABAHEIDARY , Christopher John MASON , Peter HELMUS , Mehmet Ali AKBAS , Bensely ALBERT , Benjamin David DAWSON
IPC: B23K26/352 , G03F7/20 , B23K26/06
Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and apparatuses for reducing sticking during a lithography process are disclosed. An exemplary method of reducing sticking of an object to a modified surface that is used to support the object in a lithography process can include controlling a light source to deliver light to a native surface thereby causing ablation of at least a portion of the native surface to increase the roughness of the native surface thereby forming the modified surface. The increased roughness reduces the ability of the object to stick to the modified surface.
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公开(公告)号:US11204559B2
公开(公告)日:2021-12-21
申请号:US17054313
申请日:2019-05-02
Applicant: ASML Holding N.V.
Inventor: David Taub , Joseph Ashwin Franklin , Jeffrey John Kowalski
Abstract: A lithography system comprises an illumination system configured to produce abeam of radiation, a support configured to support a patterning device configured to impart a pattern on the beam, a projection system configured to project the patterned beam onto a substrate, and an alignment system comprising an illuminator. The illuminator comprises an optical fiber, an optical fiber protector (714), an optical fiber support (700) comprising a first support arm assembly configured to support the optical fiber protector, an optical system, and an optical system support comprising a second support arm assembly configured to support the optical system.
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公开(公告)号:US20210208500A1
公开(公告)日:2021-07-08
申请号:US17206649
申请日:2021-03-19
Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V. , ASML HOLDING N.V.
Inventor: David Ferdinand VLES , Erik Achilles ABEGG , Aage BENDIKSEN , Derk Servatius Gertruda BROUNS , Pradeep K. GOVIL , Paul JANSSEN , Maxim Aleksandrovich NASALEVICH , Arnoud Willem NOTENBOOM , Mária PÉTER , Marcus Adrianus VAN DE KERKHOF , Willem Joan VAN DER ZANDE , Pieter-Jan VAN ZWOL , Johannes Petrus Martinus Bernardus VERMEULEN , Willem-Pieter VOORTHUIJZEN , James Norman WILEY
Abstract: A pellicle suitable for use with a patterning device for a lithographic apparatus. The pellicle comprising at least one breakage region which is configured to preferentially break, during normal use in a lithographic apparatus, prior to breakage of remaining regions of the pellicle. At least one breakage region comprises a region of the pellicle which has a reduced thickness when compared to surrounding regions of the pellicle.
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