EP1417541A2 - Diaphragm for an integrator unit - Google Patents
Diaphragm for an integrator unitInfo
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- EP1417541A2 EP1417541A2 EP02754928A EP02754928A EP1417541A2 EP 1417541 A2 EP1417541 A2 EP 1417541A2 EP 02754928 A EP02754928 A EP 02754928A EP 02754928 A EP02754928 A EP 02754928A EP 1417541 A2 EP1417541 A2 EP 1417541A2
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- Prior art keywords
- aperture
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- diaphragm
- light
- integrator
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- G—PHYSICS
- G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
- G03F—PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR
- G03F7/00—Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printing surfaces; Materials therefor, e.g. comprising photoresists; Apparatus specially adapted therefor
- G03F7/70—Microphotolithographic exposure; Apparatus therefor
- G03F7/70058—Mask illumination systems
- G03F7/70075—Homogenization of illumination intensity in the mask plane by using an integrator, e.g. fly's eye lens, facet mirror or glass rod, by using a diffusing optical element or by beam deflection
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- G—PHYSICS
- G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
- G03F—PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR
- G03F7/00—Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printing surfaces; Materials therefor, e.g. comprising photoresists; Apparatus specially adapted therefor
- G03F7/70—Microphotolithographic exposure; Apparatus therefor
- G03F7/70058—Mask illumination systems
- G03F7/70091—Illumination settings, i.e. intensity distribution in the pupil plane or angular distribution in the field plane; On-axis or off-axis settings, e.g. annular, dipole or quadrupole settings; Partial coherence control, i.e. sigma or numerical aperture [NA]
Definitions
- the invention relates to an aperture according to the preamble of claim 1.
- Such screens in lighting systems for microlithography projection exposure systems are known for example from US 5,473,408.
- a reflective diaphragm with a circular diaphragm opening is arranged directly in front of a rod integrator.
- light can enter the rod integrator through the aperture opening, and on the other hand light that is reflected back by the reticle and returns to the rod integrator is reflected again on the reflecting aperture surface and fed back to the useful light.
- the aperture opening has a diameter that is significantly smaller than the rod height.
- Lighting system is reflected back into the rod integrator, to return the useful light. Since a laser with a low etendue (phase space volume) is used as the light source, the light can be focused on the diaphragm with condenser optics in such a way that the light passes through the diaphragm opening without vignetting and the diaphragm opening has the smallest possible diameter.
- a laser with a low etendue phase space volume
- Illumination systems for microlithography with a rod integrator are also known from the applicant's US Pat. No. 5,675,401.
- a high-pressure mercury lamp is used as the light source.
- Such light sources have, in addition to an almost spherical radiation characteristic, a finite extent, so that they are in the Compared to laser light sources have a significantly larger etendue.
- a condenser optic focuses the light on the entry surface of the rod integrator and generates a light spot there. This is round as long as the light source has an extension that is rotationally symmetrical to the optical axis and the optical components in the condenser optics have rotationally symmetrical optical effects.
- rod integrators are used whose entrance area has a high aspect ratio of rod width to rod height, for example of 2: 1 or larger. It can happen that the extent of the light spot is greater than the rod height. This leads to light being vignetted. However, since the beam angles occurring on the entry surface are generally dependent on the distance from the optical axis, the vignetting leads to a so-called elliptical pupil illumination.
- Elliptical pupil illumination means intensity distributions in the pupil planes, which have a greater overall intensity in the quadrants arranged around a horizontal axis than in the quadrants arranged around a vertical axis and thus when imaging horizontal and vertical structures with projection lenses of microlithography to a different Resolve horizontal and vertical structures.
- the object of the invention is therefore to improve lighting systems with rod integrators.
- the light spot on the entry surface of the rod integrator can be vignetted in such a way that pupil illuminations with low ellipticity after the rod integrator are nevertheless ensured with a high coupling efficiency.
- the coupling efficiency is given by the ratio of the area of the aperture to the area of the light spot.
- the ellipticity of a pupil illumination is a scalar quantity and is determined by forming the ratio of the total intensities of the quadrants arranged around a horizontal axis and the total intensities of the quadrants arranged around a vertical axis.
- the quadrants are delimited by two straight lines that intersect in the middle of the pupil illumination, are perpendicular to each other and each form an angle of 45 ° to the horizontal direction.
- the ellipticity is equal to the ratio of a first integral, which integrates over all points of the intensity distribution whose x values are greater in magnitude than the y values, and a second integral, which integrates over all points of the intensity distribution whose y values are larger in magnitude than the x values:
- ellipticity The x-axis points in the horizontal direction, the y-axis in the vertical direction. Pupil illuminations without ellipticity have an ellipticity equal to 1.0 or 100%.
- the diaphragm has an diaphragm opening which is symmetrical to a first axis of symmetry which points in the x direction. It is thereby achieved that the light spot is vignetted symmetrically with respect to this axis of symmetry.
- This diaphragm is now arranged in front of a bar integrator, the bar width of which is measured in the x direction and the bar height of which is measured in the y direction, the bar width generally being greater than the bar height.
- the diameter of the light spot should be larger than the rod height.
- the aperture can be used to trim the light spot in such a way that the width of the light spot is almost equal to the height of the light spot, which can be seen by vignetting on the upper or lower edge of the
- Diaphragm opening or on the entry surface of the rod integrator results, depending on whether the diaphragm opening or the rod integrator have a lower height. If the angular distribution on the entry surface of the rod integrator depends on the distance from the optical axis, the parts of the light spot can be vignetted in the x direction that are trimmed in the y direction through the aperture or the entry surface of the rod integrator. Without a diaphragm, elliptical pupil illuminations would result in a pupil plane after the rod integrator. With the diaphragm according to the invention, the ellipticity of the pupil illumination after the rod integrator can be significantly reduced.
- a pupil plane after the rod integrator can, for example, the exit pupil of the rod integrator or a pupil plane within one in the light direction after the
- a pupil plane in front of the rod integrator can be, for example, the entrance pupil of the rod integrator or a pupil plane within an objective arranged in front of the rod integrator in the direction of light.
- the pupil illumination in front of the bar integrator is a so-called multipole illumination, which is characterized by a plurality of illuminated areas separated from one another, the use of the diaphragm according to the invention ensures that the total intensities of the individual areas of the pupil illumination after the bar integrator are almost in the same ratio to one another stand in front of the rod integrator like the total intensities of the individual areas of the pupil illumination.
- Possible multipole illuminations are, for example, dipole illumination with two separate ones Areas or quadrupole lighting with four separate areas.
- a circular aperture opening the diameter of which is equal to the rod height, achieves pupil illumination without ellipticity, unless other factors influence the pupil illumination.
- Circular apertures have the disadvantage that they vignette a considerable proportion of the light spot.
- square apertures pupil illuminations without ellipticity are also achieved, the coupling efficiency of an aperture with a square aperture being 4 / ⁇ greater than with a corresponding aperture with a circular aperture.
- the ratio of a second width B 2 at y H B ⁇ / 2 to one
- the widths of the diaphragm opening should be greater than or equal to the first width ⁇ and less than or equal to the second width B 2 .
- This shape of the diaphragm opening which widens starting from the first axis of symmetry upwards and downwards, leads again to slightly elliptical pupil illuminations, but also to a considerable increase in the coupling efficiency.
- the maximum width at the top of the aperture depends on the tolerable ellipticity of the pupil illumination.
- the predetermined distance y 0 in relation to the first width B 1; is set to the second width B 2 and the height H B ⁇ of the aperture.
- This condition ensures that the widths of the aperture do not increase too much towards the edge. It is particularly favorable if the widths increase linearly between the predetermined distance y 0 and the upper edge of the diaphragm opening. As a result, triangular additional areas are added to the central square aperture at all four corners, which increase the coupling efficiency and introduce only a low ellipticity of the pupil illumination.
- the boundary lines between the specified distance y 0 and the upper edge of the diaphragm opening should enclose an angle between 0 ° and 60 °, in particular between 30 ° and 60 °, so that the ellipticity of the pupil illumination remains within tolerable limits.
- the diaphragm opening has an axis of symmetry in the y direction in addition to the axis of symmetry in the x direction.
- Illumination systems of microlithography to be adapted to typical rod integrators.
- the invention also relates to an integrator unit consisting of the aperture described above and a subsequent rod integrator.
- the diaphragm should be arranged directly in front of the entry surface of the rod integrator, the distance between the diaphragm and the entry surface being given by the mechanical boundary conditions of the sockets of the components.
- the aperture can also be arranged interchangeably in front of the rod integrator. It is also possible, for example, to apply the diaphragm directly to the entry surface by means of a non-transparent coating.
- the diaphragm can also be imaged on the entry surface of the rod integrator with an imaging optical system.
- the diaphragm can also have a coating reflecting at the working wavelength in order to be able to use the advantages described, for example, in US Pat. No. 5,473,408.
- the rod integrator can be designed as a waveguide or as a glass rod.
- the use of the aperture and the integrator unit is not limited to a microlithography projection exposure system. Rather, such integrator units can generally be used in lighting systems which work with rod integrators as homogenizers and place high demands on the pupil illumination. It can be used, for example, in lighting systems for wafer inspection systems, for exposure systems for the production of flat screens, for projectors or for microscopes.
- Elliptical pupil illuminations occur primarily when the entry surface of the rod integrator is rectangular and the light spot within which the angular distribution depends on the distance from the optical axis is vignetted differently in the x and y directions on the entry surface.
- the use of the screen according to the invention is therefore favorable when the ratio of bar width and bar height is at least 1.5.
- aspect ratios in the
- the effective height of the panel should be equal to the bar height, i.e. the physical height of the panel should be at least equal to or greater than the rod height.
- a condenser lens system is usually arranged between the light source and the integrator unit, which comprises all optical components between the light source and the integrator unit.
- the condenser optics collects the light from the light source, focuses it on the entrance surface of the rod integrator and creates a light spot there.
- the condenser optics can also include a zoom lens and / or axicon lenses in order to influence the angular distribution on the entry surface of the rod integrator and thus also the shape and extent of the pupil illumination. Diffractive lenses can be used in condenser optics.
- the optical components of the condenser optics usually have one to the optical axis rotationally symmetrical optical effect.
- the shape of the light spot is round, and the angular distribution at the entrance surface depends only on the distance from the optical axis. If the diameter of the light spot is larger than the height of the rod, elliptical pupil illuminations after the rod integrator occur without a diaphragm with an aspect ratio of the entry surface greater than 1: 1. With the aperture described above, it is possible to achieve ellipticities of less than 10%, in particular less than 5%, even if the diameter of the light spot is 150% greater than the rod height.
- the coupling efficiency is advantageously greater than when using an aperture with a circular aperture opening, the diameter of which is equal to the rod height, in particular greater by 4 / ⁇ , particularly preferably greater than 1.3.
- Microlithography projection exposure system for use which in addition to the lighting system comprises a projection lens which images a structure-bearing mask on a light-sensitive substrate. Resolutions of less than 300 nm are achieved, so that particularly high demands are placed on the pupil illumination.
- This microlithography projection exposure system can be used to manufacture semiconductor components, among other things.
- the invention also relates to a method for exposing photosensitive substrates, as is used, for example, in the production of semiconductor components.
- the light bundle generated by a light source is at least partially received by a condenser optic.
- the condenser optics have a first one Pupil level in which a first pupil illumination is generated by the light beam. This has no ellipticity if the condenser optics have optical components whose optical effects are rotationally symmetrical to the optical axis, and if the light source has a radiation characteristic that is rotationally symmetrical to the optical axis, which is given by the distribution of the beam angles to the optical axis.
- the optical components of the condenser optics arranged after the first pupil plane focus the light bundle on a light spot on an entry surface of a rod integrator.
- the light spot is almost round if the light source has an extension that is rotationally symmetrical to the optical axis.
- the entry surface of the rod integrator is not round, but usually rectangular.
- the entrance surface has a first and a second extent, which is measured in directions perpendicular to each other. In the case of scanner systems in particular, the second dimension is at least 1.5 times greater than the first dimension.
- the light spot can have a diameter which is greater than the first extent, in particular between 150% and 400% larger than the first extent. As a result, the light spot is vignetted differently in the direction of the first and the second extent at the entry surface. Since the angular distribution at the entrance surface generally depends only on the distance from the optical axis, this leads to rays with different angles with respect to the optical axis entering the rod integrator in the direction of the first and the second extension.
- the light spot is now vignetted with a diaphragm, which is arranged after the condenser optics and in front of the rod integrator.
- the aperture of the aperture has a shape that differs from the shape of the light spot and the cross section of the entry surface of the rod integrator.
- the light beam is homogenized within the rod integrator, so that an almost homogeneous intensity distribution is generated on the exit surface of the rod integrator.
- a masking system is arranged near the exit surface or with a defocus of a few millimeters, which is imaged on a first field level with an objective.
- the field illumination in the first field level can be variably and sharply delimited by the masking system.
- the objective has a second pupil plane with a second pupil illumination.
- the second pupil illumination would have a clear ellipticity if the diameter of the light spot is significantly larger than the second extension of the entry surface of the rod integrator.
- the ellipticity can be reduced to less than 10%, in particular less than 5%.
- a structure-bearing mask is arranged in the first field level and is imaged on a second field level with a projection objective.
- a photosensitive substrate is arranged and exposed as soon as the light beam hits the photosensitive substrate. Structures of the mask oriented in the direction of the first and second dimensions of the entry surface would be imaged without the diaphragm with a differently large resolving power if the pupil illumination in the second pupil plane has an ellipticity. Imaging with a homogeneous resolution is only possible with the aperture and the associated reduction in ellipticity.
- an aperture with the features mentioned in the description of the device is used in the method.
- Figure 1 shows an aperture in plan view
- Figure 2 shows a schematic representation of a microlithography projection exposure system
- Figure 3 shows a schematic representation of the definition of the ellipticity of the pupil illumination.
- FIG. 1 shows an exemplary embodiment for an aperture 1 according to the invention.
- the aperture 1 has the aperture 3, which is symmetrical to a first axis of symmetry 5 and symmetrical to a second axis of symmetry 7.
- the origin of an xy coordinate system lies in the middle of the aperture 3.
- the first axis of symmetry 5 points in the x direction, the second axis of symmetry 7 in the y direction.
- the height H BL of the aperture 3 is 13 mm.
- the width of the aperture 3 is dependent on the distance y from the axis of symmetry 5.
- the boundary line of the aperture 3 between the height y 0 and the upper edge of the aperture 3 includes an angle of 53.1 ° with the y-axis.
- the ratio between the difference in height H BL and twice the value in height y 0 and the difference in width B 2 and width B] is:
- FIG. 2 shows the use of the diaphragm 1 from FIG. 1 in a microlithography projection exposure system.
- the diaphragm has the reference number 201 in FIG. 2.
- the microlithography projection exposure system 215 has the illumination system 213, the structure-bearing mask 219, the projection objective 217 and the light-sensitive substrate 221.
- the light source 223, a mercury short-arc lamp is arranged in one of the two focal points of an elliptical mirror 225, which collects the emitted light in the second focal point 227.
- the following lens 229 consists of a first lens group 231, the concave first axicon lens 233, the convex second axicon lens 235 and a second
- Adjustment means 239 and 241 allow the axial displacement of the axicon lens 235 and an optical element of the second lens group 237. This allows both the distance between the axicon lenses (233, 235) to be adjusted and thus the ring field character of the pupil illumination in the Intermediate pupil plane 243 can be changed, as well as a zoom effect for changing the diameter of the pupil illumination, ie the degree of coherence ⁇ , can be achieved.
- Exemplary embodiments for the lens 229 are contained in US Pat. No. 5,675,401.
- the collector mirror 225, the objective 229 and the objective 245 form the condenser optics 210, which exclusively have optical components with an optical effect that is rotationally symmetrical to the optical axis.
- the condenser optics 210 images the light source 223 onto the diaphragm 201.
- the diaphragm 201 is arranged directly in front of the entry surface 247 of the rod integrator 211, which is designed as a quartz rod.
- the diaphragm 201 and the rod integrator 211 form the integrator unit 209.
- the output of the rod integrator 211 is an intermediate field level, in which a masking system (REMA) 249 is arranged.
- the following REMA objective 251 forms the masking system 249 on the structure-bearing mask 219 (reticle, Lithography template) and contains a first lens group 253, a pupil plane 255, second and third lens groups (257 and 259) and in between a deflecting mirror 261.
- Exemplary embodiments of the REMA lens 251 are in DE 195 48 805 AI (US 5,982,558) and DE 196 53 983 AI (US serial No.09 / 125621).
- the structure-bearing mask 219 is imaged by the projection lens 217 onto the light-sensitive substrate 221.
- An embodiment of the projection lens 217 is contained in DE 199 42 281.8.
- Both the structure-bearing mask 219 and the light-sensitive substrate 221 are carried by a positioning and changing unit (not shown) which, in addition to exchanging the elements, also allows the elements to be scanned during the exposure.
- the aperture 201 is adapted to the dimensions of the rod integrator 211.
- the bar width is measured in the x direction and the bar height in the y direction.
- the length of the rod integrator is 800mm to ensure adequate homogenization of the light.
- the aperture 201 could also have a greater physical height, since in this case the light spot would be vignetted by the upper and lower boundary lines of the entry surface 247.
- the distance between the aperture 201 and the rod integrator 211 is 0.5 mm.
- the following shows how the use of the diaphragm 201 influences the ellipticity of the pupil illumination.
- the aperture 201 is first removed from the lighting system 213.
- the arc of the light source 223 has in this
- Embodiment a length of 4mm and a diameter of 6mm.
- the light beams emitted by the light source 223 have angles between 60 ° and 135 ° with respect to the optical axis OA.
- the arc is imaged by the condenser optics 210 on the entry surface 247 and generates a light spot with a maximum diameter of 41 mm, which is thus 315% larger than the rod height.
- the Rays have a maximum angle of 18 ° with respect to the optical axis OA.
- the diameter of the light spot and the beam angle on the entrance surface depend on the position of the zoom lenses and the axicon lenses (233, 235) in the lens 229.
- the axicon lenses (233, 235) are closed and the lens 229 has a focal length of 77 mm.
- the rear focal plane of the lens 229 is located approximately at the location of the second focal point 227 of the mirror 225, the front focal plane approximately at the location of the intermediate pupil plane 243.
- the focal length of the lens 245 is 90 mm, the rear focal point approximately at the location of the intermediate pupil plane 243 and the front focal point is approximately at the location of the aperture 201.
- the rod integrator 211 produces a homogeneous surface on its exit surface
- Field illumination which is imaged on the structure-bearing mask 217 with the REMA objective 251.
- the field level with the masking system 249 is followed by the pupil plane 255 of the REMA objective 251 after the lens group 253 with the focal length 123 mm, in which the pupil illumination is viewed as an intensity distribution I (x, y).
- the rear focal plane of the lens group 253 is approximately at the location of the
- Masking system 249 the anterior focal plane approximately at the location of the pupil plane 255.
- the definition of the ellipticity of the pupil illumination is illustrated in FIG. 3.
- the pupil illumination 375 is not homogeneous, as is shown schematically in FIG. 3, but instead has a grid of separated light spots due to the fact that the entry surface 247 of the rod integrator 211 is not completely filled in the y direction.
- the total intensities in the four quadrants 363, 365, 367 and 369 are determined.
- the quadrants are delimited by straight lines 371 and 373, which are each at 45 ° to the y-axis.
- the ellipticity is now equal to the quotient of the total intensities in quadrants 363 and 367 and the total intensities in quadrants 365 and 369: ⁇ I (x, y) dxdy + ⁇ I (x, y) dxdy
- the ellipticity of the pupil illumination is 2.5%. Compared to an integrator unit 209 without an aperture (ellipticity 19%), the ellipticity is significantly lower and has a tolerable value. With the aperture 201, only 32% of the total intensity is lost compared to an integrator unit 209 without an aperture. The coupling efficiency of the aperture 201 is 14.6%. Compared to a circular one
- the coupling efficiency is a factor of 1.45 higher.
- the overall intensity is 1.3 times greater than that of an integrator unit with a circular aperture.
- the boundary line of the diaphragm opening can be modified in such a way that with increased demands on the ellipticity of the
- Pupil illumination give tolerable values for the ellipticity.
- the angle of inclination of the boundary line between the height y 0 and the upper edge of the diaphragm opening can be reduced. It is also possible to increase the value for the height yo. Lower values for the ellipticity also result if the boundary line between the height y 0 and the upper edge of the diaphragm opening does not form a straight line but an arc, so that the widths of the diaphragm opening in this area are smaller than for the diaphragm 201.
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