• DocumentCode
    2520671
  • Title

    Performance analysis of pixelated source-mask optimization for optical microlithography

  • Author

    Jia, Ningning ; Lam, Edmund Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Hong Kong Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    15-17 Dec. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    The optical lithography is facing great challenge from the continuous shrinkage of the technology node. As one of the promising techniques, the free-form source-mask optimization (SMO) has been increasingly explored in recent years with great interests in the performance of SMO on its process robustness. In this paper, a free-form SMO framework is proposed, and its performance is tested by comparing the process window of SMO and the mask-only optimization.
  • Keywords
    masks; photolithography; free-form SMO framework; optical microlithography; pixelated source-mask optimization; process window; Lithography; Variable speed drives;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), 2010 IEEE International Conference of
  • Conference_Location
    Hong Kong
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-9997-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EDSSC.2010.5713709
  • Filename
    5713709