Polarization aberration compensation method by adjusting illumination partial coherent factors in immersion lithography

Yue Jia, Yanqiu Li*, Lihui Liu, Chunying Han, Xiaolin Liu

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Abstract

As the numerical aperture (NA) increasing and process factor k1 decreasing in 193nm immersion lithography, polarization aberration (PA) of projection optics leads to image quality degradation seriously. Therefore, this work proposes a new scheme for compensating polarization aberration. By simulating we found that adjusting the illumination source partial coherent factors σout is an effective method for decreasing the PA induced pattern critical dimension (CD) error while keeping placement error (PE) within an acceptable range. Our simulation results reveal that the proposed method can effectively compensate large PA in actual optics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNanophotonics and Micro/Nano Optics II
EditorsZhiping Zhou, Kazumi Wada
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781628413502
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
EventNanophotonics and Micro/Nano Optics II - Beijing, China
Duration: 9 Oct 201411 Oct 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume9277
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceNanophotonics and Micro/Nano Optics II
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period9/10/1411/10/14

Keywords

  • Polarization aberration
  • compensation
  • illumination source partial coherent factor.
  • immersion lithography
  • projection optics

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