Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 46, Issue 10, 1004005(2019)

Blade Edge's Penumbra Measurement for Scanning Slit of Lithographic Tools

Zhifan Liu1, Ming Chen2, Yang Bu2、*, Jinghao Xu2, Lili Fan2, Jianhua Zhang1, and Xiangzhao Wang2
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  • 1School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • 2Laboratory of Information Optics and Opto-Electronic Technology, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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    Exposure system diagram of step-and-scan lithographic tool
    Diagram of rectangle lighting field
    Scanning slit imaging optical path under trapezoidal illumination
    Light intensity distribution at edge of light field based on scanning method
    Measurement result of penumbra by using the conventional scanning method with different sampling steps
    Distribution of intensity of mask surface and sub-pupil of pupil plane
    Principle of blade edge's penumbra width measurement byproposed imaging method. (a) P100%; (b) P50%; (c) P0
    Diagram of pupil imaging measurement system
    Diagram of sampling points' number and coordinate
    Repeatability of blade edge's penumbra width measured by two methods. (a) In x- direction; (b) in x+ direction; (c) in y- direction; (d) in y+ direction
    Sampling paths of two methods for measuring blade edge's penumbra
    • Table 1. Repeatability of blade edge's penumbra width measured by two methodsmm

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      Table 1. Repeatability of blade edge's penumbra width measured by two methodsmm

      DirectionConventional methodProposed method
      MeanRepeatabilityMeanRepeatability
      MaxMinMaxMinMaxMinMaxMin
      x-0.4090.3550.0900.0670.4840.4540.0260.024
      x+0.4010.3590.0830.0740.4880.4520.0260.025
      y-0.4100.3810.0860.0730.4920.4680.0250.024
      y+0.3800.3400.0860.0690.4740.4540.0260.024
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    Zhifan Liu, Ming Chen, Yang Bu, Jinghao Xu, Lili Fan, Jianhua Zhang, Xiangzhao Wang. Blade Edge's Penumbra Measurement for Scanning Slit of Lithographic Tools[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2019, 46(10): 1004005

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    Paper Information

    Category: measurement and metrology

    Received: Mar. 21, 2019

    Accepted: Jun. 21, 2019

    Published Online: Oct. 25, 2019

    The Author Email: Bu Yang (buyang@siom.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/CJL201946.1004005

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