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Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 18, 2020
Applicant:

Asml Netherlands B.v., Veldhoven, NL;

Inventors:

Roy Werkman, Eindhoven, NL;

David Frans Simon Deckers, Turnhout, BE;

Simon Philip Spencer Hastings, San Jose, CA (US);

Jeffrey Thomas Ziebarth, San Jose, CA (US);

Samee Ur Rehman, Milpitas, CA (US);

Davit Harutyunyan, San Jose, CA (US);

Chenxi Lin, Newark, CA (US);

Yana Cheng, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

ASML NETHERLANDS B.V., Veldhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 1/36 (2012.01); G03F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 7/705 (2013.01); G03F 1/36 (2013.01); G03F 7/70508 (2013.01); G03F 7/70616 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for determining a correction for an apparatus used in a process of patterning substrates, the method including: obtaining a group structure associated with a processing history and/or similarity in fingerprint of to be processed substrates; obtaining metrology data associated with a plurality of groups within the group structure, wherein the metrology data is correlated between the groups; and determining the correction for a group out of the plurality of groups by applying a model to the metrology data, the model including at least a group-specific correction component and a common correction component.


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