Projection objective wave aberration online detection device and detection method
Technical Field
The invention relates to a wave aberration detection device of an optical system, in particular to an on-line wave aberration detection device and method of a photoetching machine projection objective adopting extended light source illumination.
Background
The photolithography technique is one of the core techniques in the manufacture of very large scale integrated circuits, and transfers the pattern on a mask to a photoresist coated on the surface of a silicon wafer by an exposure method, and then transfers the pattern to the silicon wafer by the processes of development, etching, and the like. The projection objective is a core component of an imaging system of a lithography machine, and the wave aberration of the projection objective is a main factor causing the lithography imaging quality to deteriorate, and finally causing the imaging contrast of the lithography machine to decrease, the process window to shrink and the product yield to decrease. In the actual exposure process, the wave aberration of the projection objective is severely changed due to factors such as micro-vibration of the system, non-uniform heating of the lens continuously caused by excimer laser and the like, so that an online wave aberration measuring device of the projection objective of the lithography machine is required to be integrated in the lithography machine so as to realize online detection of the wave aberration of the projection objective rapidly and accurately.
The wave aberration detection technology of the projection objective of the photoetching machine can be divided into three categories according to measurement objects: a wave aberration detection technique based on photoresist exposure, a wave aberration detection technique based on aerial image measurement, and a wave aberration detection technique (PMI) based on pupil plane measurement. The Lambertian shear interference is a wave aberration detection technology based on pupil plane measurement, an illumination light beam forms uniform diffracted light through a mask mark made of a diffusion element and enters the pupil of a projection objective, the light beam is split into two identical wave fronts by a shear grating on the image surface of the projection objective, and the two wave fronts are mutually staggered by a certain distance and are coherent in a far field to obtain a diffraction pattern. The wave aberration of the projection objective can be extracted by measuring the interference pattern and utilizing a phase recovery algorithm, and the method has the advantages of no spatial optical path error, high detection precision, high sensitivity and the like, and can be well applied to the on-line detection of the wave aberration of the projection objective. However, the ronchi shearing interference requires that the light source is an incoherent light source, the mutual interference of grating multi-level diffracted lights can seriously affect the phase extraction precision, and meanwhile, the requirements on the parallelism and the collimation of the diffraction gratings on the object plane and the image plane are high. Therefore, the spatial coherence of the light source is reduced, the multi-level diffraction error of the grating is eliminated, the alignment and parallel effects of the grating are improved, and the method is a premise that the Langmuir shearing interference is applied to high-precision projection objective wave aberration detection.
Van De Kerkhof et al propose a method for realizing online detection of wave aberration of a projection objective of a lithography machine by integrating a wave aberration detection device based on the Langchi shearing interference principle on a mask platform and a silicon wafer platform of the lithography machine (refer to the prior art [1], Van De Kerkhof, M., et al., fusion optical column chromatography of DUV lithographic projection tools, optical lithography Xvii, Pts 1-3,2004.5377: p.1960-1970). However, this device has problems: the light source is partial coherent light, and the modulation effect on the spatial coherence of the light field is directly influenced, so that the measurement precision is influenced, and the like. US patent US7333216 discloses a wave aberration detecting apparatus for reducing the spatial coherence of a light source using a multimode fiber array (refer to prior art [2], u.wegmann, h.haidner, m.schriever.apparatus for wave front detection, United states patent US7333216B2,2008.), but the apparatus has problems: the effective alignment and parallel adjustment functions between the object plane grating and the image plane grating are lacked, and system errors are easily introduced. Matthieu Visser et al propose Extended source interferometers for EUV lithography objective wave aberration detection (see Prior Art [3], Matthieu Visser, Markign K. Dekker, Petra Hegeman, et al, "Extended source interferometry for at-wavelength of the EUV-optics", emissive Lithographic Technologies Iii, Pts 1 and2,1999.3676: p.253-263), but have the problem that the interference of higher order diffraction terms with level 0 is not eliminated.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art and provides the on-line detection device for the wave aberration of the projection objective based on the ronchi shear interference principle, and the device for measuring the wave aberration of the projection objective has the advantages of high speed and high precision.
The technical solution of the invention is as follows:
the utility model provides a projection objective wave aberration on-line measuring device which characterized in that: the rotating diffuser, the first focusing lens, the optical fiber array, the second focusing lens, the diffusing optical element, the object plane grating plate, the image plane grating plate and the two-dimensional photoelectric sensor are arranged in sequence along the direction of the light beam output by the light source; the object plane grating plate is arranged on the object plane grating displacement table, the image plane grating plate is arranged on the image plane grating displacement table, the image plane grating displacement table is connected with the phase shift control module, and the two-dimensional photoelectric sensor is connected with the computer.
The rotary diffuser consists of a bracket, a motor and a circular diffuse scattering optical element and is used for converting coherent light or partially coherent light into incoherent light; the circular diffuse scattering optical element is arranged on the motor and driven by the motor to rotate along the central shaft;
the scattering optical element is an optical element which enables the illumination light beam to uniformly illuminate in the numerical aperture of the optical system to be detected, such as ground glass and a micro-lens array;
the optical fiber array is an optical fiber bundle formed by arranging multimode optical fibers in a honeycomb manner, so that the spatial coherence of an optical field can be further destroyed;
the object plane grating plate comprises two periods of PoAnd the duty ratio is 50% and the object plane grating aligns the mark to make up, two object plane gratings are the first grating and the second grating of grating line along the x direction of grating line along the y direction separately.
The first grating and the second grating are phase gratings or amplitude gratings or other types of diffraction gratings.
The period P of the object plane gratingoAnd the period P of the image surface gratingiThe following relationship is satisfied,
Po=Pi·M
wherein M is the imaging magnification of the optical system to be detected;
the object plane grating alignment mark consists of a third grating positioned above and a fourth grating positioned below; the third grating and the fourth grating are both line gratings, and the periods are P respectively1And P2And the difference is 5%;
the numerical aperture of the optical system to be detected is NA, and the imaging magnification is M: 1;
the image surface grating plate consists of an image surface grating and an image surface grating alignment mark;
the image surface grating is in a checkerboard layout, the light transmitting units and the light shading units are squares with the same size, 4 light shading units are arranged around each light transmitting unit, and 4 light transmitting units are arranged around each light shading unit; the period P of the image surface gratingiEqual to the diagonal length of the square; the diagonal directions of the image surface grating light transmission unit and the shading unit are parallel to the directions of an x axis and a y axis;
the image surface grating alignment mark consists of a fifth grating positioned above and a sixth grating positioned below, the period of the fifth grating is equal to the product of the period of the fourth grating of the object surface grating alignment mark and the imaging magnification of the optical system to be measured, and the period of the sixth grating is equal to the product of the period of the third grating of the object surface grating alignment mark and the imaging magnification of the optical system to be measured;
the object plane grating displacement platform is used for respectively moving the first grating and the second grating into an object space optical path of the optical system to be measured;
the image surface grating displacement platform is used for moving the image surface grating into an image space light path of the optical system to be detected and driving the image surface grating to move along the x direction and the y direction;
the two-dimensional photoelectric sensor is a camera, a CCD, a CMOS image sensor, a PEEM or a two-dimensional photoelectric detector array, and a shearing interference fringe generated by an image surface grating is received on a detection surface of the two-dimensional photoelectric sensor;
the computer is used for controlling the wave aberration detection process, storing the measurement data and processing and analyzing the interference pattern.
An on-line detection method for the wave aberration of a projection objective comprises the following steps:
(1) adjusting the height of the rotary diffuser to enable the light beam emitted by the light source to transmit through the upper half part of the circular diffuse scattering optical element; adjusting the first focusing lens and the input end of the optical fiber array to enable the transmitted light of the rotating scatterer to be well coupled into the optical fiber array;
(2) the object plane grating plate is arranged on the object plane grating displacement platform and is adjusted to the object plane of the measured optical system, the object plane grating displacement platform is moved, and the first grating on the object plane grating plate is moved into the object space view field position of the measured optical system;
(3) placing the scattering optical element close to the object plane grating plate, and adjusting the second focusing lens and the output end of the optical fiber array to uniformly illuminate the object plane grating plate;
(4) the image surface grating plate is arranged on the image surface grating displacement table and is adjusted to the image surface of the optical system to be detected, the image surface grating displacement table is moved, the image surface grating is moved into the image photoresist of the optical system to be detected, and the two-dimensional photoelectric sensor is arranged behind the image surface grating plate and is used for detecting interference fringes formed by the image surface grating;
(5) adjusting an object plane grating displacement table, aligning according to moire fringes formed by a differential alignment grating formed by an object plane grating alignment mark on an object plane grating plate and an image plane grating alignment mark on an image plane grating plate on a two-dimensional photoelectric sensor, and when the two groups of fringes completely coincide, showing that the alignment and parallel adjustment of a first grating and the image plane grating are completed (see the prior art [4], Moon, E.E. and H.I.Smith, Nanometer-precision patterning for scanning-probe height mapping using interference three-dimensional-phase-imaging. journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: electronics and Nanometer structure, 2006.24(6): p.3083-3087.);
(6) the image surface grating displacement table moves the image surface grating along the x direction for 12 times, the grating period is 1/12 times of movement each time, and the two-dimensional photoelectric sensor collects a shearing interference image I after each time of movementxkWherein k is 1,2,3 …, 12; selecting 10 interference fringe patterns except for the 8 th and 9 th patterns, and calculating the phase according to the following formula:
wherein,representing gradient information of the measured wave front in the x direction as the phase of the measured wave front in the x direction;
(7) moving the object plane grating displacement table, and moving a second grating on the object plane grating plate into the position of an object space view field of the optical system to be measured; adjusting an object plane grating displacement table, aligning according to Moire fringes formed by a differential alignment grating formed by an object plane grating alignment mark on an object plane grating plate and an image plane grating alignment mark on an image plane grating plate on a two-dimensional photoelectric sensor, and finishing the alignment and parallel adjustment of a second grating and the image plane grating when the two groups of fringes are completely overlapped;
(8) the image surface grating displacement table moves the image surface grating along the y direction for 12 times, the grating period is 1/12 times of movement each time, and the two-dimensional photoelectric sensor collects a shearing interference image I after each time of movementykWherein k is 1,2,3 …, 12; selecting 10 interference fringe patterns except for the 8 th and 9 th patterns, and calculating the phase according to the following formula:
wherein,representing gradient information of the measured wave front in the y direction as the phase of the measured wave front in the y direction;
(9) unwrapping the phase extraction result to respectively obtain differential wavefront delta W in the x direction and the y directionxAnd Δ WyAnd performing shearing interference wavefront reconstruction to obtain the wavefront of the detected optical system.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages:
1. the rotating diffuser and the optical fiber array are adopted, the spatial coherence of a light source is further destroyed, the modulation effect of the object plane grating on the spatial coherence of a light field is improved, and the measurement precision of the wave aberration of the optical system is improved.
2. The differential grating is used as an alignment mark to generate amplified moire fringes with high sensitivity to displacement, so that a high-precision alignment effect is realized, and system errors are reduced.
3. The method can well eliminate higher-order diffraction terms outside 0 order and +/-1 order, and can well eliminate the influence on the phase extraction precision caused by the interference of multi-order diffraction light in the Langchi shearing interference.
4. The modulation effect of the object plane grating on the spatial coherence of the optical field is improved, the high-precision alignment effect is realized, and the system error of phase extraction in wave aberration detection is reduced, so that the wave aberration detection precision of the optical system is improved.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an on-line detection device for wave aberration of a projection objective according to the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a rotating diffuser;
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of an optical fiber array;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of an object plane grating plate;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of an image plane grating plate;
FIG. 6 shows moire fringes produced with different relative displacements of the grating alignment marks.
Detailed Description
In order to make the contents, implementation processes and advantages of the present invention clearer, the following description of the present invention is made with reference to the following examples and accompanying drawings, but the scope of the present invention should not be limited by the examples.
Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an on-line detection device for wave aberration of a projection objective according to the present invention, and as can be seen from the diagram, the device structure includes: the optical fiber array comprises a rotary diffuser 2, a first focusing lens 3, an optical fiber array 4, a second focusing lens 5, a scattering optical element 6, an object plane grating plate 7, an image plane grating plate 10 and a two-dimensional photoelectric sensor 13 in sequence along the direction of a light beam output by a light source 1; the object plane grating plate 7 is arranged on the object plane grating displacement table 8, the image plane grating plate 10 is arranged on the image plane grating displacement table 11, the image plane grating displacement table 11 is connected with the phase shift control module 12, and the two-dimensional photoelectric sensor 11 is connected with the computer 14;
the rotating diffuser 2 (see fig. 2) is composed of a support 203, a motor 202 and a circular diffuse scattering optical element 201, and is used for converting coherent light or partially coherent light into incoherent light; the circular diffuse scattering optical element 201 is arranged on a motor 202 and driven by the motor 202 to rotate along a central shaft;
the scattering optical element 6 is an optical element which enables the illumination light beam to uniformly illuminate in the numerical aperture of the optical system 9 to be detected, such as ground glass, a micro lens array and the like;
the optical fiber array 4 (see fig. 3) is a fiber bundle formed by arranging multimode optical fibers in a honeycomb manner and is used for further destroying the spatial coherence of an optical field;
the object plane grating plate 7 (see fig. 4) has two periods of PoAnd an object plane grating with a duty ratio of 50% and an object plane grating alignment mark 703, the two object plane gratings are a first grating 701 with grating lines along the y direction and a second grating 702 with grating lines along the x direction, respectively.
The first grating 701 and the second grating 702 are phase type or amplitude type or other type of one-dimensional diffraction grating.
The object plane grating alignment mark 703 is composed of a third grating 704 located above and a fourth grating 705 located below; the third grating 704 and the fourth grating 705 are both line gratings, and the periods are P respectively1And P2And the difference is 5%;
the image plane grating plate 10 (see fig. 5) is composed of an image plane grating 1001 and an image plane grating alignment mark 1002;
the image surface grating 1001 is a checkerboard grating and has a checkerboard layout, the light transmitting units and the light shading units are squares with the same size, 4 light shading units are arranged around each light transmitting unit, and 4 light transmitting units are arranged around each light shading unit; the period P of the image plane grating 1001iEqual to the diagonal length of the square; the diagonal directions of the image plane grating 1001 light transmission unit and the shading unit are parallel to the directions of an x axis and a y axis;
ideally, the image plane grating 1001 diffracts only 0 order and other odd terms, the even terms lack orders, and the light energy is mainly concentrated on 0 order and ± 1 order, each odd diffraction order generates interference with 0 order in far field, the period of the equivalent grating in the shearing direction is the side length of square of each unit structure of the chessboard gratingAnd (4) doubling.
The image plane grating 1001 is placed in a state where the diagonal directions of the light transmitting unit and the light shielding unit are parallel to the x-axis direction and the y-axis direction, and is a lambertian grating when viewed along the x-axis direction and the y-axis direction, and the duty ratio is 50%.
The image plane grating alignment mark 1002 consists of a fifth grating 1003 positioned above and a sixth grating 1004 positioned below, the period of the fifth grating 1003 is equal to the product of the period of the fourth grating 705 of the object plane grating alignment mark 703 and the imaging magnification of the optical system 9 to be measured, and the period of the sixth grating 1004 is equal to the product of the period of the third grating 704 of the object plane grating alignment mark 703 and the imaging magnification of the optical system 9 to be measured;
example (b):
in the DUV exposure optical system, the light source 1 is generally an ArF or KrF excimer laser, i.e., the output light has a wavelength of 193nnm or 248nm, respectively. Using ArF excimer laser with wavelength of 193nm as light source 1, numerical aperture of measured optical system 9 is 0.75, imaging magnification is 4 ×, shear rate is set to 1/20, and period P of image surface grating 801 is selectedi2.6 μm, and the object plane grating period is Po10.4 μm; the periods of the fifth grating and the sixth grating of the image plane grating alignment mark are respectively 25 micrometers and 26 micrometers; the periods of the third grating and the fourth grating marked by the object plane grating are 104 micrometers and 100 micrometers respectively.
The object plane grating displacement table 8 is a displacement table for respectively moving the first grating 701 and the second grating 702 into the object space optical path of the measured optical system 9;
the image plane grating displacement platform 11 is a displacement platform which moves the object plane grating 1001 into an image space light path of the measured optical system 9 and drives the object plane grating 1001 to move along the x direction and the y direction;
the object plane grating alignment mark 703 and the image plane grating alignment mark 802 form a differential mode grating mark, and are used for realizing the nanometer-level high-precision alignment of the object plane grating plate 7 and the image plane grating plate 10;
the two-dimensional photoelectric sensor 13 is a camera, a CCD, a CMOS image sensor, a PEEM, or a two-dimensional photoelectric detector array, and receives the shearing interference fringes generated by the image plane grating 10 on a detection surface;
the computer 14 is used for controlling the wave aberration detection process, storing the measurement data, and processing and analyzing the interferogram.
The detection of the wave aberration of the projection objective can be carried out by using the device and the technology, and the detection method comprises the following steps:
(1) the height of the rotating diffuser 2 is adjusted to make the light beam emitted from the light source 1 pass through the upper half part of the circular diffuse scattering optical element 201; adjusting the first focusing lens 3 and the input end of the optical fiber array 4 to enable the transmitted light of the rotating diffuser 2 to be well coupled into the optical fiber array 4;
(2) the object plane grating plate 7 is arranged on the object plane grating displacement table 8 and is adjusted to the object plane of the measured optical system 9, the object plane grating displacement table 8 is moved, and the first grating 701 on the object plane grating plate 7 is moved into the object space view field position of the measured optical system 9;
(3) placing the scattering optical element 6 close to the object plane grating plate 7, adjusting the output ends of the second focusing lens 5 and the optical fiber array 4 to uniformly illuminate the object plane grating plate 7, and ensuring that the first grating 701 and the object plane grating alignment mark 703 are both illuminated;
(4) the image plane grating plate 10 is arranged on the image plane grating displacement table 11 and is adjusted to the image plane of the optical system 9 to be detected, the image plane grating displacement table 11 is moved, the image plane grating 1001 is moved into the image space optical fiber of the optical system 9 to be detected, and the two-dimensional photoelectric sensor 13 is arranged behind the image plane grating plate 10 and is used for detecting the interference fringes of the image plane grating 1001;
(5) adjusting an object plane grating displacement table 8, and aligning according to Moire fringes formed by a differential alignment grating formed by an object plane grating alignment mark 703 on an object plane grating plate 7 and an image plane grating alignment mark 1002 on an image plane grating plate 10 on a two-dimensional photoelectric sensor 13; referring to fig. 6, (a) to (d) are moire fringe patterns corresponding to the process of gradually reducing the relative displacement of the two groups of marked gratings, respectively, (e) are fringe patterns when the two groups of gratings are completely overlapped to realize the alignment of the object plane grating and the image plane grating; when the object plane grating displacement table 11 is adjusted to make the two groups of stripes completely coincide, it is described that the alignment and parallel adjustment of the first grating 701 and the image plane grating 1001 are completed;
(6) the image plane grating displacement table 11 moves the image plane grating 1001 along the x direction for 12 times, the grating period is 1/12 times of movement, and the two-dimensional photoelectric sensor 13 collects a shearing interference image I after each time of movementxkWherein k is 1,2,3 …, 12; selecting I thereinx1、Ix2、Ix3、Ix4、Ix5、Ix6、Ix7、Ix10、Ix11、Ix12I.e. corresponding to a phase shift in the x direction of 0,π、The phase is calculated according to the following formula:
wherein,representing gradient information of the measured wave front in the x direction as the phase of the measured wave front in the x direction;
(7) moving the object plane grating displacement table 8, and moving the second grating 702 on the object plane grating plate 7 into the object space view field position of the measured optical system 9; adjusting an object plane grating displacement table 8, aligning according to moire fringes formed by a differential alignment grating formed by an object plane grating alignment mark 703 on an object plane grating plate 7 and an image plane grating alignment mark 1002 on an image plane grating plate 10 on a two-dimensional photoelectric sensor, and when the two groups of fringes are completely overlapped, finishing the alignment and parallel adjustment of a second grating 702 and an image plane grating 1001;
(8) the image plane grating displacement table 11 moves the image plane grating 1001 along the y direction for 12 times, the grating period is 1/12 times of movement, and the two-dimensional photoelectric sensor 13 collects a shearing interference image I after each time of movementykWherein k is 1,2,3 …, 12; selecting I thereiny1、Iy2、Iy3、Iy4、Iy5、Iy6、Iy7、Iy10、Iy11、Iy12I.e. corresponding to a phase shift in the y direction of 0,π、10 interference fringe patterns, and calculating the phase according to the following formula:
wherein,representing gradient information of the measured wave front in the y direction as the phase of the measured wave front in the y direction;
(9) unwrapping the phase extraction result to respectively obtain differential wavefront delta W in the x direction and the y directionxAnd Δ WyAnd performing shearing interference wavefront reconstruction to obtain the wavefront of the measured optical system 9.
The specific theoretical discussion of the wave aberration detection method for eliminating the multi-order diffraction error of the image plane grating is as follows:
according to the Langqi shearing interference principle, the light intensity on the detection plane is
Wherein, a0Is the background light intensity, k is a positive integer, amIs the contrast of the interference fringes of the m-th order diffracted by the grating in the x direction and 0 th order,is the phase difference between the m-th diffraction order and 0-th diffraction order of the grating in the x direction. The expression for the intensity of light is rewritten as when phase shift is considered
Wherein,where δ is the phase shift amount of the image plane grating 1001 in the shearing direction, which is the phase difference between the m-th diffraction order in the x direction and 0 order, m δ represents the phase shift amount of the m-th diffraction order when the grating moves in the shearing direction.
If the first 9 diffraction orders of image plane grating diffraction are considered, the assumption is madeThe phase difference between the m-th diffraction order in the shear direction and 0 th diffraction order is defined as m ═ 1, ± 3, …, ± 9. In order to suppress the influence of the grating multi-order diffracted light on the phase extraction accuracy, the amount of the collected phase shift is 0,π、10 interferograms with respective intensities of each step
The following equations (3) to (12) can be obtained:
since it is satisfied at a small shearing amount when the phase shift is not considered
ThenPhase of the measured optical system 9 in the shearing directionComprises the following steps:
in order to recover the two-dimensional original wavefront of the measured optical system 9, two shearing interferences are required to be performed by using two orthogonal shearing directions, and information representing the gradient of the measured wavefront in the x direction and the y direction is obtained respectivelyAndunwrapping the phase extraction result to respectively obtain differential wavefront delta W in the x direction and the y directionxAnd Δ WyAnd performing shearing interference wavefront reconstruction to obtain the wavefront of the measured optical system 9.
It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the above embodiments are illustrative only and not intended to be limiting, and that changes and modifications may be made to the above embodiments without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention, which is defined by the appended claims.