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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021

Filed:

May. 15, 2017
Applicant:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Tamer Coskun, San Jose, CA (US);

Thomas L. Laidig, Richmond, CA (US);

Jang Fung Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 7/70633 (2013.01); G03F 2007/2067 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems are provided that, in some embodiments, print and process a layer. The layer can be on a wafer or on an application panel. Thereafter, locations of the features that were actually printed and processed are measured. Based upon differences between the measured differences and designed locations for those features at least one distortion model is created. Each distortion model is inverted to create a corresponding correction model. When there are multiple sections, a distortion model and a correction model can be created for each section. Multiple correction models can be combined to create a global correction model.


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