Method and Device for Pupil Illumination in Overlay and Critical Dimension Sensors

An illumination system for a metrology apparatus that can achieve illumination spatial profile flexibility, high polarization extinction ratio, and high contrast. The illumination system includes a polarizing beam splitter (PBS), an illumination mode selector (IMS), and a reflective spatial light mo...

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Hauptverfasser:	EURLINGS, Markus Franciscus Antonius, SHMAREV, Yevgeniy Konstantinovich
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR CINEMATOGRAPHY ELECTROGRAPHY HOLOGRAPHY INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES MATERIALS THEREFOR MEASURING ORIGINALS THEREFOR PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES,e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTORDEVICES PHYSICS TESTING
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Zusammenfassung:	An illumination system for a metrology apparatus that can achieve illumination spatial profile flexibility, high polarization extinction ratio, and high contrast. The illumination system includes a polarizing beam splitter (PBS), an illumination mode selector (IMS), and a reflective spatial light modulator (SLM). The PBS divides an illumination beam into sub-beams. The IMS has a plurality of apertures that transmits at least one sub-beam and may be arranged in multiple illumination positions corresponding to illumination modes. A pixel array of the reflective SLM and reflects a portion of the sub-beam transmitted by the IMS back to the IMS and PBS. The PBS, IMS, SLM collectively generates a complex amplitude or intensity spatial profile of the transmitted sub-beam.