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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:
Sep. 02, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 03, 2020
Applicants:

Asml Holding N.v., Veldhoven, NL;

Asml Netherlands B.v., Veldhoven, NL;

Inventors:

Armand Eugene Albert Koolen, Nuth, NL;

Justin Lloyd Kreuzer, Trumbull, CT (US);

Nikhil Mehta, Stamford, CT (US);

Patrick Warnaar, Tilburg, NL;

Vasco Tomas Tenner, Amsterdam, NL;

Patricius Aloysius Jacobus Tinnemans, Hapert, NL;

Hugo Augustinus Joseph Cramer, Eindhoven, NL;

Assignees:

ASML Holding N.V., Veldhoven, NL;

ASML Netherlands B.V., Veldhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 7/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/95 (2006.01); G01N 21/956 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 7/70508 (2013.01); G01N 21/9501 (2013.01); G01N 21/95623 (2013.01); G03F 7/706837 (2023.05);
Abstract

Disclosed is a method for a metrology measurement on an area of a substrate comprising at least a portion of a target structure. The method comprises receiving a radiation information representing a portion of radiation scattered by the are, and using a filter in a Fourier domain for removing or suppressing at least a portion of the received radiation information that does not relate to radiation that has been scattered by the target structure for obtaining a filtered radiation information for the metrology measurement, wherein characteristics of the filter are based on target information about the target structure.


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