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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2017
Kla-tencor Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
KLA-Tencor Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A scatterometry measurement system includes an objective lens with a central obscuration and an illumination source configured to illuminate a scatterometry target through the objective lens with a first illumination beam at a first illumination angle and a second illumination beam at a second illumination angle in which the scatterometry target includes periodic structures located in at least two layers. The objective lens collects at least one diffracted order from the first illumination beam and at least one diffracted order from the second illumination beam such that the at least one diffracted order from the first illumination beam and the at least one diffracted order from the second illumination beam have a non-overlapping distribution in a portion of an imaging pupil plane not blocked by the central obscuration.