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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2019
Asml Netherlands B.v., Veldhoven, NL;
Venugopal Vellanki, San Jose, CA (US);
Vivek Kumar Jain, Milpitas, CA (US);
Stefan Hunsche, Santa Clara, CA (US);
ASML Netherlands B.V., Veldhoven, NL;
Abstract
A defect prediction method for a device manufacturing process involving processing one or more patterns onto a substrate, the method including; determining values of one or more processing parameters under which the one or more patterns are processed; and determining or predicting, using the values of the one or more processing parameters, an existence, a probability of existence, a characteristic, and/or a combination selected from the foregoing, of a defect resulting from production of the one or more patterns with the device manufacturing process.