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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1993
Ken T Chan, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Donald E Davis, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
William A Enichen, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Cecil T Ho, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Edward V Weber, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Guenther Langner, Glen, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A pattern is aligned and exposed with a lithography system so that chips larger than the deflection field can be formed by exposing M.times.N fields in a mosaic pattern. The method corrects the deflection field to compensate for the orientation of a previous pattern on a substrate and compensates for errors due to height caused by the beam landing non perpendicular to the target. Two basic procedures disclosed are called '3-mark' which are only applicable to 2.times.2 arrays of fields, and 'M.times.N' which covers the general situation, but with slightly less accuracy.