Amplitude and phase beam shaping for highest sensitivity in sidewall angle detection

Luca Cisotto*, H. Paul Urbach

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Abstract

In integrated circuits manufacturing, specific structures are used as tools to evaluate the quality of the lithographic process, and the shape of these structures is often described by a few parameters, of which in particular the sidewall angle suffers from considerable inaccuracies. Using scalar diffraction theory, we investigate whether a properly shaped cylindrically focused probing beam could increase the ability to detect tiny changes in this angle in the case of a cliff-like structure, modeled as a phase object. This paper describes the theoretical formulation used to calculate the optimized beam and compares its performance with the case of a focused plane wave.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)52-60
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision
Volume34
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2017

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