Sources of overlay error in double patterning integration schemes

David Laidler; Philippe Leray; Koen D’havé; Shaunee Cheng

doi:10.1117/12.773575

24 March 2008 Sources of overlay error in double patterning integration schemes

David Laidler, Philippe Leray, Koen D’havé, Shaunee Cheng

Proceedings Volume 6922, Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control for Microlithography XXII; 69221E (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.773575
Event: SPIE Advanced Lithography, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

With the planned introduction of double patterning techniques, the focus of attention has been on tool overlay performance and whether or not this meets the required overlay for double patterning. However, as we require tighter and tighter overlay performance, the impact of the selected integration strategy plays a key part in determining the achievable overlay performance. Very little attention has been given at this time to the impact of for example deposition steps, oxidation steps, CMP steps and the impact that they have on wafer deformation and therefore degraded overlay performance, which directly reduces the available overlay budget. Also, selecting the optimum alignment strategy to follow, either direct or indirect alignment, plays an important part in achieving optimum overlay performance. In this paper we investigate the process impact of various double patterning integration strategies and attempt to show the importance of selecting the right strategy with respect to achieving a manufacturable double patterning process. Furthermore, we report a methodology to minimize process overlay by modelling the non-linear grids for process induced wafer deformation and demonstrate best achievable overlay by feeding this information back to the relevant process steps.

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David Laidler, Philippe Leray, Koen D’havé, and Shaunee Cheng "Sources of overlay error in double patterning integration schemes", Proc. SPIE 6922, Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control for Microlithography XXII, 69221E (24 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.773575

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