Effect of reticle CD uniformity on wafer CD uniformity in the presence of scattering-bar optical proximity correction

Konstantinos Adam; Robert John Socha; Mircea V. Dusa; Andrew R. Neureuther

doi:10.1117/12.332862

18 December 1998 Effect of reticle CD uniformity on wafer CD uniformity in the presence of scattering-bar optical proximity correction

Konstantinos Adam, Robert John Socha, Mircea V. Dusa, Andrew R. Neureuther

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Proceedings Volume 3546, 18th Annual BACUS Symposium on Photomask Technology and Management; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.332862
Event: 18th Annual BACUS Symposium on Photomask Technology and Management, 1998, Redwood City, CA, United States

Abstract

Amplification of reticle linewidth variations in imaging is examined through direct measurements of the mask error factor (MEF), which typically is used to describe this undesirable effect. The error observed in the aerial image linewidth is decoupled from the error in the resulting resist profile linewidth with the introduction of two separate mask error factors, namely the aerial image MEF_aerial and the resist MEF_resist. These MEF's are evaluated from systematic aerial image measurements and resist profile measurements on printed wafers respectively. In many cases the noise in the metrology tools used in the experiment, combined with the very high quality of the test reticle used, limit the statistical confidence of our results. However useful insight is gained on the role of the non-linearity of the resist in reducing the error observed at the wafer (MEF_resist) in comparison to the error observed in the aerial image (MEF_aerial). It is found that 180 nm lines (k1 equals 0.38) have a MEF_aerial approximately equals 1.5 and a MEF_resist approximately equals 1. The effect of scattering bars OPC on the MEF for features sizes 180 nm and 220 nm (k₁ factors of 0.38 and 0.47 respectively) is generally small and on the order of less than 10%.

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Konstantinos Adam, Robert John Socha, Mircea V. Dusa, and Andrew R. Neureuther "Effect of reticle CD uniformity on wafer CD uniformity in the presence of scattering-bar optical proximity correction", Proc. SPIE 3546, 18th Annual BACUS Symposium on Photomask Technology and Management, (18 December 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.332862

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