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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2016
Applicant:
Asml Netherlands B.v., Veldhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Nick Kant, Utrecht, NL;
Mark Jan Hendrik Luttikhof, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
ASML Netherlands B.V., Veldhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 27/52 (2006.01); G03F 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 7/70875 (2013.01); G03F 7/705 (2013.01); G03F 7/70516 (2013.01); G03F 7/70783 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of reducing effects of reticle heating and/or cooling in a lithographic process, the method including calibrating a linear time invariant reticle heating model using a system identification method; predicting distortions of the reticle using the reticle heating model and inputs in the lithographic process; and calculating and applying a correction in the lithographic process on the basis of the predicted distortions of the reticle.