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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2021
Kla Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Alon Yagil, Milpitas, CA (US);
Yuval Lamhot, Haifa, IL;
Ohad Bachar, Milpitas, CA (US);
Martin Mayo, Milpitas, CA (US);
Tal Yaziv, Milpitas, CA (US);
Roie Volkovich, Hadera, IL;
KLA Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for measuring misregistration between different layers of a semiconductor device, the method including providing a set of pupil inaccuracy scalable basis elements (PISBEs) relating to a plurality of patterned semiconductor device wafers (PSDWs), generating a single pupil image of a site on a PSDW, the PSDW being one of the plurality of PSDWs, by taking a single measurement of the site, the single pupil image including a plurality of site-specific pixels, calculating a set of site-specific pupil inaccuracy scalable basis element scaling factors (PISBESFs) for the single pupil image using the set of PISBEs and the plurality of site-specific pixels and calculating a site-specific misregistration value (SSMV) using the set of PISBEs and the set of site-specific PISBESFs.