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Scatterometry measurement of the exposure focal length of photolithography tools


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Reference

SL-DRT-24-0553  

Direction

DRT

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Technological challenges

Thesis topics

Scatterometry measurement of the exposure focal length of photolithography tools

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Job description

Since the late 2000s with the advent of 45nm CMOS nodes, the control of critical dimensions (CD) of the structures in the photolithography stage has become critical to the reliability of printed circuit boards. Optical photolithography remains the most economical and widespread technique for high volume production in the semiconductor industry. For this type of equipment, manufacturers have focused on increasing the numerical aperture of the exposure lens, reducing sources of optical aberrations and on metrology to ensure efficient monitoring of their machines. These developments were possible at the expense of the depth of field of the exposure. To avoid altering the images transferred to the photosensitive resins, and ultimately have a device failure, it is essential to give a value as accurate and precise as possible of this size. To meet the growing needs of process control and lithography tools required by the most advanced technologies, metrology techniques based on analysis of reflected signals are massively used. Although this methodology is well suited to current CMOS technologies (CMOS14nm and earlier), it is unlikely to address more advanced technologies, so other techniques must emerge, such as techniques based on the analysis of the diffracted signal (scatterometry).

University / doctoral school

Electronique, Electrotechnique, Automatique, Traitement du Signal (EEATS)
Université Grenoble Alpes

Thesis topic location

Site

Grenoble

Requester

Position start date

01/10/2024

Person to be contacted by the applicant

BLANCQUAERT Yoann yoann.blancquaert@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DPFT//L2MD
CEA-Leti, MINATEC Campus,
17 rue des Martyrs - 38054 GRENOBLE Cedex 9, France

0438781664

Tutor / Responsible thesis director

BESACIER Maxime maxime.besacier@cea.fr
CNRS
LTM
CEA
LETI/LTM
17, rue des Martyrs
38054 GRENOBLE Cedex 9
0438784417

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoann-blancquaert-780a1028/