Improved grating reconstruction by determination of line roughness in extreme ultraviolet scatterometry

The accurate determination of critical dimensions and roughness is necessary to ensure the quality of photoresist masks that are crucial for the operational reliability of electronic components. Scatterometry provides a fast indirect optical nondestructive method for the determination of profile par...

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Published in:Optics letters 2012-12, Vol.37 (24), p.5229-5231
Main Authors: Henn, Mark-Alexander, Heidenreich, Sebastian, Gross, Hermann, Rathsfeld, Andreas, Scholze, Frank, Bär, Markus
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Diffraction gratings
Gratings (spectra)
Inverse method
Mathematical analysis
Mathematical models
Reconstruction
Roughness
Ultraviolet
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