In world-leading semiconductor manufacturing, the device feature size keeps on reducing and with it processes become more challenging in the next technology node. The on-product overlay budget is therefore required to reduce further. Alignment is one of the key factors in reducing overlay wafer-to-wafer variation. Due to the complexity, a holistic methodology is used to combine various alignment solutions to achieve the optimal on-product overlay performance. In this paper, we evaluated the holistic method by simulation and experiment for DUV layers. We illustrate the expected on-product overlay improvement.
In next generation 3D-NAND devices, accurately determining after-etch overlay for the multi-layer stack is a major challenge. This is especially the case for the multi-tier 3D-NAND structures, where the overlay of the channel holes is an important performance parameter. The most commonly used after-etch metrology suffer both from the high aspect ratio of the channel holes and from the potential presence of large tilts.
Using In-Device Metrology (IDM), we show results of non-destructive overlay measurements on 3D-NAND memory holes. Once the overlay signal has been determined, the remaining asymmetry information in the measurement can be used to characterize tilt phenomena densely through the memory array.
Using hyper-dense in-device measurements show the overlay effects of intra-die stress. A new lithography scanner model is used to correct specifically for such intra-die overlay fingerprints.
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