Observation of EUVL mask using coherent EUV scatterometry microscope with high-harmonic-generation EUV source

Daiki Mamezaki; Tetsuo Harada; Yutaka Nagata; Takeo Watanabe

doi:10.1117/12.2275400

13 July 2017 Observation of EUVL mask using coherent EUV scatterometry microscope with high-harmonic-generation EUV source

Daiki Mamezaki, Tetsuo Harada, Yutaka Nagata, Takeo Watanabe

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Proceedings Volume 10454, Photomask Japan 2017: XXIV Symposium on Photomask and Next-Generation Lithography Mask Technology; 1045413 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2275400
Event: Photomask Japan 2017, 2017, Yokohama, Japan

Abstract

In extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, development of review tools for EUV mask pattern and phase defect at working wavelength of 13.5 nm is required. The EUV mask is composed of an absorber pattern (50 – 70 nm thick) and Mo/Si multilayer (280 nm thick) on a glass substrate. This mask pattern seems three-dimensional (3D) structure. This 3D structure would modulate EUV reflection phase, which would cause focus and pattern shifts. Thus, EUV phase imaging is important to evaluate this phase modulation. We have developed coherent EUV scatterometry microscope (CSM), which is a simple microscope without objective optics. EUV phase and intensity image are reconstructed with diffraction images by ptychography with coherent EUV illumination. The high-harmonic-generation (HHG) EUV source was employed for standalone CSM system. In this study, we updated HHG system of pump-laser reduction and gas-pressure control. Two types of EUV mask absorber patterns were observed. An 88-nm lines-and-spaces and a cross-line patterns were clearly reconstructed by ptychography. In addition, a natural defect with 2-μm diameter on the cross-line was well reconstructed. This demonstrated the high capability of the standalone CSM, which system will be used in the factories, such as mask shops and semiconductor fabrication plants.

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Daiki Mamezaki, Tetsuo Harada, Yutaka Nagata, and Takeo Watanabe "Observation of EUVL mask using coherent EUV scatterometry microscope with high-harmonic-generation EUV source", Proc. SPIE 10454, Photomask Japan 2017: XXIV Symposium on Photomask and Next-Generation Lithography Mask Technology, 1045413 (13 July 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2275400

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