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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2009
Chi-yuan Shih, Hsinchu, TW;
Sophia Wang, Xin-Zhu, TW;
Heng-hsin Liu, Yonghe, TW;
Heng-jen Lee, Baoshan Township, Hsinchu County, TW;
Chi-Yuan Shih, Hsinchu, TW;
Sophia Wang, Xin-Zhu, TW;
Heng-Hsin Liu, Yonghe, TW;
Heng-Jen Lee, Baoshan Township, Hsinchu County, TW;
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsin-Chu, TW;
Abstract
The present disclosure provides an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of material layers formed on the semiconductor substrate, each of the material layers including a circuit pattern therein; and a plurality of diffraction-based periodic marks formed in the plurality of material layers and stacked in a same region. One of the diffraction-based periodic marks is different from at least one other of the diffraction-based periodic marks in pitch.