OPO improvements by Moiré effect-based imaging

Yonglei Li; Justin Lim; Nahee Park; Yuqian Zhang; Xiaolei Liu; Yasutaka Okada; Gloria Chen; Ben McClain; Erin Hollinger; Amy Weatherly; Yoav Grauer; Zephyr Liu; Raviv Yohanan; Greg Gray; Mark Stakely; Shlomit Katz; Mahendra Dubey; Neeraj Khanna

doi:10.1117/12.2658074

27 April 2023 OPO improvements by Moiré effect-based imaging

Yonglei Li, Justin Lim, Nahee Park, Yuqian Zhang, Xiaolei Liu, Yasutaka Okada, Gloria Chen, Ben McClain, Erin Hollinger, Amy Weatherly, Yoav Grauer, Zephyr Liu, Raviv Yohanan, Greg Gray, Mark Stakely, Shlomit Katz, Mahendra Dubey, Neeraj Khanna

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Proceedings Volume 12496, Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control XXXVII; 124960R (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2658074
Event: SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning, 2023, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

With the continuous shrinking of semiconductor device nodes, the reduction of on-product overlay (OPO) becomes extremely critical for high-yield IC (Integrated Circuit) manufacturing. This requires accurate overlay (OVL) process control which can be better achieved by using an optimized OVL target design and a more advanced metrology platform. The novel rAIM® imaging-based-overlay (IBO) target, which has a grating-over-grating structure with significantly smaller pitch sizes as compared to the standard advanced-imaging-metrology (AIM®) target, can improve OVL measurement accuracy by adopting a more device-compatible design with high Moiré sensitivity. This paper demonstrates the advantages of rAIM targets by comparing and quantifying their performance to standard AIM targets through key parameters including raw OVL, residuals, precision, and total measurement uncertainty (TMU). We also present the performance of rAIM targets on different OVL metrology platforms. We conclude that with an optimized target design and an advanced OVL measurement platform, rAIM targets can be an ideal overlay metrology solution for advanced dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) devices.

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Yonglei Li, Justin Lim, Nahee Park, Yuqian Zhang, Xiaolei Liu, Yasutaka Okada, Gloria Chen, Ben McClain, Erin Hollinger, Amy Weatherly, Yoav Grauer, Zephyr Liu, Raviv Yohanan, Greg Gray, Mark Stakely, Shlomit Katz, Mahendra Dubey, and Neeraj Khanna "OPO improvements by Moiré effect-based imaging", Proc. SPIE 12496, Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control XXXVII, 124960R (27 April 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2658074

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