PRECISION IN STEREOSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS USING A PRE-DEPOSITION LAYER

    公开(公告)号:US20240153738A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-09

    申请号:US17983225

    申请日:2022-11-08

    Inventor: Yehuda Zur

    CPC classification number: H01J37/28 H01J37/222 H01J2237/2815

    Abstract: A method of determining the depth of a hole milled into a first region of a sample, the method comprising: positioning the sample in a processing chamber having a charged particle beam column; depositing material directly over a top surface of the sample in a second region of the sample adjacent to the first region; milling the hole in the first region of the sample using a charged particle beam generated by the charged particle beam column, wherein the hole abuts the material deposited over the top surface and includes a sidewall that extends from a bottom surface of the hole to an interface between the deposited material and the top surface of the sample; and using stereoscopic measurement techniques to calculate the depth of the hole based on distance measurements between a first point along an interface between the material and the top surface and a second point along a bottom surface of the hole.

    Method for calibrating a scanning charged particle microscope

    公开(公告)号:US11972922B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-30

    申请号:US18126322

    申请日:2023-03-24

    CPC classification number: H01J37/28 H01J37/222 H01J2237/2826

    Abstract: A method for calibrating a scanning charged particle microscope, such as a scanning electron microscope (SEM), is provided. The method includes dividing a wafer into a plurality of regions; preparing, on each of the plurality of regions, a pattern including a first periodic structure interleaved with a second periodic structure, the first and second periodic structures having an induced offset; determining an actual pitch the first and second periodic structures and thereby determining actual induced offset on each of the plurality of regions; selecting a plurality of regions from among the plurality of regions; measuring, by the SEM, a pitch of first and second periodic structures on each of the plurality of regions; and performing linearity calibration on the SEM based on the determining and the measuring.

    Height measuring device and beam irradiation device

    公开(公告)号:US11959735B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-16

    申请号:US16747942

    申请日:2020-01-21

    CPC classification number: G01B11/0608 H01J37/20 H01J37/28

    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to propose a height measuring device which performs height measurement with high accuracy at each height with a relatively simple configuration even when the sample surface height changes greatly. A height measuring device which includes a projection optical system configured to project a light ray onto an object to be measured and a detection optical system including a detection element configured to detect a reflected light ray from the object to be measured, where the projection optical system includes a light splitting element (103) which splits a trajectory of the light ray with which the object to be measured is irradiated into a plurality of parts, and thus it is possible to project a light ray to a predetermined position even when the object to be measured is located at a plurality of heights, is proposed.

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