WO2006057299A1 - ステージ装置および露光装置 - Google Patents
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- H10P72/00—Handling or holding of wafers, substrates or devices during manufacture or treatment thereof
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- H10P72/7604—Handling or holding of wafers, substrates or devices during manufacture or treatment thereof for supporting or gripping using mechanical means, e.g. clamps or pinches the wafers being placed on a susceptor, stage or support
- H10P72/7612—Handling or holding of wafers, substrates or devices during manufacture or treatment thereof for supporting or gripping using mechanical means, e.g. clamps or pinches the wafers being placed on a susceptor, stage or support characterised by lifting arrangements, e.g. lift pins
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- 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
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- G03F7/70—Microphotolithographic exposure; Apparatus therefor
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- 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
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- H10P72/00—Handling or holding of wafers, substrates or devices during manufacture or treatment thereof
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- the present invention relates to a stage apparatus for placing a substrate such as a wafer and an exposure apparatus equipped with this stage apparatus.
- a wafer stage is accommodated in a vacuum atmosphere as disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-146718. Then, the wafer is transferred to the wafer stage by the transfer arm.
- Patent Document 1 Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2004-146718
- the present invention has been made in order to solve the conventional problems, which facilitates the improvement of the positioning accuracy of the substrate attracted by the chuck and facilitates the removal of the substrate from the chuck.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a stage apparatus and an exposure apparatus that can perform the same. Means for solving the problem
- the stage device according to claim 1 is a stage device in which a chuck for sucking a substrate transported by a transport means is disposed on a fine motion table disposed above a coarse motion stage with a suction surface facing upward.
- a support member is disposed on the coarse movement stage to support the substrate upward while separating the chuck force when the fine movement table is in the lowered position. It is characterized by.
- the stage device according to claim 2 is the stage device according to claim 1, wherein the support member is inserted into a through hole formed in the chuck in a vertical direction.
- a stage apparatus is the stage apparatus according to the first aspect, wherein the support member is inserted into a through-hole formed in the fine movement table in a vertical direction.
- the stage device according to claim 4 is characterized in that the stage device according to claim 2 or claim 3 has three or more through holes, and the support members are inserted into the through holes, respectively.
- the stage device according to claim 5 is the stage device according to claim 1; Then, the position measurement means for measuring the positional relationship between the substrate supported by the support member and the fine movement table, and the positional relationship between the substrate and the fine movement table are set in a predetermined positional relationship. And positioning means for moving the fine movement table.
- a stage apparatus is the stage apparatus according to the fifth aspect, wherein the positioning means rotates the fine movement table in a horizontal plane.
- the stage device according to claim 7 is the stage device according to claim 5 or claim 6, wherein the positioning means moves the fine movement table and then raises the fine movement table to place the substrate on the chuck. It is placed on the suction surface.
- the stage device according to claim 8 is the stage device according to claim 1, wherein the stage device according to claim 1 is shifted, and after the suction of the substrate to the suction surface is released, the fine movement table is removed. It has a peeling means for lowering and peeling the substrate from the suction surface by the support member.
- the stage device according to claim 9 is the stage device according to claim 8, further comprising force measuring means for measuring a force acting on the support member, and the peeling means acts on the support member.
- the fine movement table is lowered so that the force to be applied is below a predetermined value.
- An exposure apparatus according to a tenth aspect has the stage apparatus according to any one of the first aspect and the ninth aspect according to the first aspect.
- the support member for supporting the substrate above the chuck when the fine movement table is lowered is arranged on the coarse movement stage, it is easy to improve the positioning accuracy of the substrate attracted by the chuck. In addition, the substrate can be easily detached from the chuck.
- the exposure apparatus of the present invention uses the stage apparatus of the present invention, the exposure accuracy can be improved by improving the positioning accuracy of the substrate attracted by the chuck. Further, since it is easy to remove the substrate having a chucking force, the throughput can be improved.
- FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing a first embodiment of a stage apparatus of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing a state where the fine force table of FIG. 1 is also viewed with an upward force.
- FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing a state where a wafer is transferred to a wafer stage by a transfer arm.
- FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing a state in which the position of the wafer and the fine movement table are being adjusted.
- FIG. 5 is a top view showing an image processing apparatus used for wafer bridging.
- FIG. 6 is a side view showing the image processing apparatus of FIG.
- FIG. 7 is an explanatory view showing a state where the fine force table of FIG. 4 is also viewed with an upward force.
- FIG. 8 is an explanatory view showing a state where the wafer is peeled from the electrostatic chuck.
- FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing a series of operations of the stage apparatus of FIG. 1.
- FIG. 10 is an explanatory view schematically showing a series of operations of the stage apparatus of FIG. 1.
- FIG. 11 is an explanatory view showing a second embodiment of the stage apparatus of the present invention.
- FIG. 12 is an explanatory view showing an embodiment of an exposure apparatus of the present invention.
- FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of the stage apparatus of the present invention.
- the book The invention is applied to a wafer stage.
- the wafer stage 11 of this embodiment has a coarse movement stage 13 and a fine movement table 15.
- the coarse movement stage 13 is guided by the guide column 19 through the main body 17 and is movable in a direction perpendicular to the paper surface (X direction). Further, it can be moved in the left-right direction (Y direction) on the paper surface by a guide mechanism (not shown).
- the positioning accuracy of the coarse stage 13 in the X and Y directions is supposed to be about ⁇ m.
- the fine movement table 15 is disposed above the main body portion 17 of the coarse movement stage 13.
- the fine movement table 15 is supported by Z-actuators 21 arranged on both sides of the main body portion 17 of the coarse movement stage 13. As shown in FIG. 2, three Z-actuators 21 are arranged in a triangular shape (or four or more).
- the Z-actuator 21 has a built-in encoder so that the fine movement table 15 can be finely moved in the vertical direction (Z direction) in the figure.
- the fine movement table 15 can be finely moved in the X and Y directions by the XY actuator 23. Three or more sets of the XY actuators 23 are arranged between the fine movement table 15 and the coarse movement stage 13 due to, for example, the voice coil motor force. Further, the fine movement table 15 can be rotated around the X, Y and Z axes. That is, the fine movement table 15 can be driven with six degrees of freedom (X, Y, ⁇ , 0 ⁇ , 0 y, 0 z). The positioning accuracy of this fine movement table 15 is supposed to be on the order of nm.
- a movable mirror 25 for measuring the position of the fine movement table 15 with the laser beam LB from the laser interferometer 24 is disposed on the outer periphery of the fine movement table 15.
- An electrostatic chuck 27 is disposed above the fine movement table 15. As shown in FIG. 2, the electrostatic chuck 27 is fixed to the fine movement table 15 with bolts or the like at three fixing portions 27a.
- the upper surface of the electrostatic chuck 27 is an adsorption surface 27 b for adsorbing the wafer 29.
- a fixed plate 31 is fixed to the upper surface of the main body portion 17 of the coarse movement stage 13.
- a support member 33 that supports the wafer 29 above the electrostatic chuck 27 when the fine movement table 15 is lowered is disposed on the fixed plate 31.
- the support member 33 has a pin shape, and is centered on the center of the circular electrostatic chuck 27 as shown in FIG. Three are arranged in a triangular shape.
- the electrostatic chuck 27 three through holes 27c are formed in the vertical direction at positions corresponding to the support member 33.
- a support member 33 is inserted into the through hole 27c through a hole 15a formed in the fine movement table 15.
- the inner diameter of the through hole 27c is sufficiently larger than the outer diameter of the support member 33, and the electrostatic chuck 27 is prevented from interfering with the support member 33 due to the fine movement of the fine movement table 15.
- the upper end 33a of the support member 33 is positioned below the adsorption surface 27b of the electrostatic chuck 27 when the fine movement table 15 is raised, and protrudes upward from the adsorption surface 27b of the electrostatic chuck 27 when the fine movement table 15 is lowered.
- the support member 33 is provided with a force sensor 35 that measures the force acting on the support member 33.
- the force sensor 35 also has a force such as a piezoelectric element or a strain gauge.
- the fine movement table 15 is lowered by the Z-actuator 21 so that the support member 33 protrudes upward from the suction surface 27b of the electrostatic chuck 27.
- the wafer 29 is loaded.
- the wafer 29 is placed on the upper end 33a of the support member 33, and in this state, the wafer 29 and fine movement table 15 are aligned.
- the bri alignment is performed by measuring the position of the wafer 29 supported by the upper end 33a of the support member 33 by using the image processing apparatuses 38 and 40 as shown in FIG.
- the image processing devices 38 and 40 are off-axis type two-dimensional image processing devices, and are arranged in the vicinity of the end of the projection optical system (not shown) on the wafer side.
- the image processing device 38 is arranged on a line parallel to the Y axis through the approximate center of the notch N of the wafer 29, and the image processing device 40 is passed through the approximate center of the wafer 29. It is placed on a line parallel to the X axis.
- FIG. 6 is a side view showing the image processing apparatus 38. Illumination light in a wavelength band having a low sensitivity to the photoresist applied to the wafer 29 is emitted from a light source 42 such as a lamp or a light emitting diode to an optical fiber or the like. One end force of the light guide 44 is also incident. Then, the illumination light emitted from the other end of the light guide 44 is applied to the outer peripheral edge portion of the wafer 29 at the upper end of the support member 33 through the collimator lens 46, the half prism 48, and the objective lens 50. Yes.
- a light source 42 such as a lamp or a light emitting diode to an optical fiber or the like.
- One end force of the light guide 44 is also incident. Then, the illumination light emitted from the other end of the light guide 44 is applied to the outer peripheral edge portion of the wafer 29 at the upper end of the support member 33 through the collimator lens 46, the half prism 48, and the objective lens 50. Yes.
- Reflected light from the edge portion passes through the objective lens 50, the half prism 48, and the imaging lens 52 and enters the image sensor 54 such as a two-dimensional CCD, and the wafer 29 enters the image pickup surface of the image sensor 54.
- An image of the edge portion is formed.
- the configuration of the image processing device 40 is the same as the configuration of the image processing device 38, and thus the description thereof is omitted.
- the position of the notch N to be detected on the wafer 29 is obtained from the image pickup signal output from the image pickup device 54 provided in the image processing devices 38 and 40, and a predetermined calculation process is performed to determine the position of the wafer necessary for bri alignment. Calculate the rotation angle and translation amount. Then, the bri alignment is performed by moving the fine movement table 15 based on the calculated value. At this time, since the inner diameter of the through hole 27c of the electrostatic chuck 27 is sufficiently larger than the outer diameter of the support member 33, the electrostatic chuck 27 is prevented from interfering with the support member 33 due to the fine movement of the fine movement table 15.
- the Z-actuator 21 raises the fine movement table 15.
- the upper end 33 a of the support member 33 is accommodated in the through hole 27 c of the electrostatic chuck 27, and the wafer 29 is placed on the suction surface 27 b of the electrostatic chuck 27.
- the electrostatic chuck 27 is turned on and the wafer 29 is attracted to the electrostatic chuck 27.
- the fine movement table 15 is accurately positioned (fine alignment).
- an operation of returning the horizontal position (XY position) of fine movement table 15 to the original position is performed. This operation is performed by moving the fine movement table 15 by the rotation angle and translational movement amount of the wafer measured during the preparation while measuring the position of the fine movement table 15 by the laser interferometer 24.
- Fine alignment of fine movement table 15 is performed by measuring the positional relationship between wafer 29 adsorbed on electrostatic chuck 27 and fine movement table 15 as shown in FIG. In this measurement, for example, a relative position between the fiducial marks Ml and M2 formed on the fine movement table 15 and the alignment mark M formed on the wafer 29 is measured by a reference microscope (not shown).
- fine movement table 15 is moved so that the relative positional relationship between alignment mark M of wafer 29 and fixed marks Ml and M2 of fine movement table 15 is a predetermined positional relationship. This movement is performed by moving fine movement table 15 in the X direction using XY actuator 23.
- the fine movement table 15 is finely moved in the Y direction, and the fine movement table 15 is rotated by a predetermined angle ( ⁇ ⁇ ) in the horizontal plane about the center (axis).
- the electrostatic chuck 27 is turned off, and the suction of the wafer 29 to the suction surface 27b of the electrostatic chuck 27 is released. Then, the fine movement table 15 is lowered substantially simultaneously. As a result, as shown in FIG. 8, the support member 33 protrudes from the suction surface 27b of the electrostatic chuck 27, piles on the residual suction force of the electrostatic chuck 27, and the wafer 29 is forcibly separated from the suction surface 27b.
- the force acting on the support member 33 is measured by the force sensor 35, and the force acting on the support member 33 is less than a predetermined value (a value that does not cause damage to the wafer 29). Then, the fine movement table 15 is lowered. This prevents excessive force from acting on the wafer 29 and prevents the wafer 29 from being damaged.
- the wafer 29 detached from the attracting surface 27b of the electrostatic chuck 27 is transferred to the accommodation location of the wafer 29 by the transfer arm 37 (shown in FIG. 3).
- FIG. 9 is a process diagram showing a series of processes
- FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram schematically showing the main part of the series of processes.
- step S1 the wafer 29 is loaded by the transfer arm 37.
- the fine movement table 15 is lowered by the Z-actuator 21, and the support member 33 is protruded upward from the suction surface 27b of the electrostatic chuck 27.
- step S 2 the wafer 29 is placed on the upper end 33 a of the support member 33 as shown in FIG.
- step S3 pre-alignment of the wafer 29 is performed.
- the bri alignment is performed by measuring the position of the wafer 29 supported by the upper end 33a of the support member 33 by the image processing devices 38 and 40, and determining the wafer 29 necessary for bri alignment.
- the rotation angle and the translational movement amount are calculated, and the fine movement table 15 is moved based on the calculated values.
- the fine movement table 15 is moved while measuring the position of the fine movement table 15 with the laser interferometer 24.
- step S4 fine movement table 15 is raised by Z actuator 21.
- the upper end 33a of the support member 33 is accommodated in the through hole 27c of the electrostatic chuck 27, and the wafer 29 is placed on the suction surface 27b of the electrostatic chuck 27.
- step S5 the electrostatic chuck 27 is turned on and the wafer 29 is attracted to the electrostatic chuck 27.
- step S6 an operation of returning the horizontal position (XY direction position) of fine movement table 15 to the original position is performed.
- the fine movement table 15 is moved by the rotation angle and translational movement amount of the wafer 29 measured during the bridging alignment. This is done by moving.
- step S7 the wafer 29 is finely aligned. As shown in FIG. 7, this fine alignment is finely adjusted so that the relative positional relationship between the alignment mark M of the wafer 29 and the fiducial marks Ml and M2 of the fine movement table 15 becomes a predetermined positional relationship. This is done by moving table 15.
- step S8 the wafer 29 is exposed.
- step S9 the electrostatic chuck 27 is turned off, and the suction of the wafer 29 to the suction surface 27b of the electrostatic chuck 27 is released.
- step S10 the fine movement table 15 is lowered by the Z-actuator 21.
- the support member 33 protrudes from the attracting surface 27b of the electrostatic chuck 27, and the wafer 29 is strong from the attracting surface 27b against the residual attracting force of the electrostatic chuck 27. It is peeled off.
- step S 11 as shown in FIG. 10G, the wafer 29 is unloaded by the transfer arm 37.
- Step S1 to Step S11 are newly repeated.
- the wafer 29 is placed on the support member 33. In this state, the positional relationship between the wafer 29 and the fine movement table 15 can be adjusted. Therefore, before the wafer 29 is attracted to the electrostatic chuck 27, the positional relationship between the wafer 29 and the fine movement table 15 can be adjusted. The positioning accuracy of the wafer 29 to be attached can be improved.
- the transfer arm 37 is relatively low in rigidity when transferring the wafer to the wafer stage 11 in a vacuum atmosphere, the wafer 29 is positioned on the wafer stage 11 with high accuracy. You can decide.
- the support member 33 that supports the wafer 29 above the electrostatic chuck 27 when the fine movement table 15 is lowered is disposed on the coarse movement stage 13, so that the fine movement table 15 is moved downward.
- the support member 33 also projects the attracting surface 27b force of the electrostatic chuck 27. Therefore, it is possible to forcibly separate the wafer 29 from the attracting surface 27b by piled on the residual attracting force of the electrostatic chuck 27, and it is easy to detach the wafer 29 from the electrostatic chuck 27 and improve the throughput. be able to.
- FIG. 11 shows a second embodiment of the stage apparatus of the present invention.
- brackets 41 are fixed to the side surface of the main body portion 17 of the coarse movement stage 13 at a predetermined angle.
- a support member 43 is fixed to the upper surface of each bracket 41.
- the fine movement table 15 is formed with a through hole 15c through which the support member 43 is passed, at a position corresponding to the support member 43.
- the electrostatic chuck 27 is fixed at a position inside the through hole 15c of the fine movement table 15.
- the electrostatic chuck 27 has a smaller diameter than the outer diameter of the wafer 29, and the outer peripheral portion 29 a of the wafer 29 is positioned outside the electrostatic chuck 27.
- the fine movement table 15 is lowered to place the outer peripheral portion 29a of the wafer 29 on the support member 43, and the positional relationship between the wafer 29 and the fine movement table 15 is adjusted in this state. Further, by lowering the fine movement table 15, the support member 43 protrudes from the suction surface 27b of the electrostatic chuck 27, and the wafer 29 is forcibly separated from the suction surface 27b.
- FIG. 12 shows an embodiment of the exposure apparatus of the present invention.
- a bright wafer stage 11 is applied to a charged particle beam (electron beam) exposure apparatus.
- an illumination optical system barrel 101 is disposed on the electron beam exposure apparatus 100.
- a vacuum pump 102 is connected to the illumination optical system barrel 101, and the inside of the illumination optical system barrel 101 is evacuated.
- An electron gun 103 is disposed above the illumination optical system lens tube 101 and emits an electron beam downward.
- a condenser lens 104a and an electron beam deflector 104b constituting the illumination optical system 104 are arranged.
- the condenser lens 104a has a single-stage force.
- An actual illumination optical system is provided with a multi-stage lens, a beam shaping aperture, and the like.
- a reticle chamber 118 placed on a surface plate 116 is disposed below the illumination optical system column 101.
- the reticle chamber 118 is evacuated by a vacuum pump (not shown).
- reticle stage 111 is arranged on surface plate 116.
- the reticle R is fixed to a chuck 110 provided on the reticle stage 111 by electrostatic adsorption or the like.
- the reticle stage 111 is connected to a drive device 112 shown on the left side of the drawing.
- the actual driving device 112 is incorporated in the reticle stage 111.
- the driving device 112 is connected to the control device 115 via a driver 114.
- the reticle stage 111 is provided with a laser interferometer 113 shown on the right side of the drawing.
- the laser interferometer 113 is connected to the control device 115.
- control device 115 When the position information of reticle stage 111 measured by laser interferometer 113 is input to control device 115, a command is sent from control device 115 to driver 114 to set the position of reticle stage 111 as the target position.
- the driving device 112 is driven. As a result, the position of reticle stage 111 can be accurately feedback controlled in real time.
- each of the small regions (subfields) of the reticle R is sequentially scanned (scanned) by the deflector 104b in the horizontal direction in the figure, and is adsorbed onto the reticle stage 111 in the reticle chamber 118 (within the visual field of the optical system). Lighting is performed.
- a projection optical system lens barrel 121 is disposed on the lower surface side of the surface plate 116.
- a vacuum pump 122 is connected to the projection optical system barrel 121, and the projection optical system barrel 121 is evacuated. I care.
- a projection optical system 124 including a condenser lens (projection lens) 124a, a deflector 124b, and the like and a wafer 29 are arranged in the projection optical system column 121.
- the condenser lens 124a has one stage, but the actual projection optical system 124 is provided with a plurality of stages of lenses, aberration correction lenses, and coils.
- a wafer chamber 138 placed on a surface plate 136 is disposed below the projection optical system lens barrel 121.
- the wafer chamber 138 is evacuated by a vacuum pump (not shown).
- a wafer stage 11 is disposed on a surface plate 136 in the wafer chamber 138.
- the wafer stage 11 is configured in the same manner as the wafer stage shown in FIG. 1.
- a wafer 29 is fixed to the electrostatic chuck 27 provided on the upper part of the wafer 11 by electrostatic adsorption.
- the wafer stage 11 is connected to a driving device 132 shown on the left side of the figure.
- the actual driving device 132 is incorporated in the wafer stage 11.
- the driving device 132 is connected to the control device 115 via a driver 134.
- the wafer stage 11 is provided with a laser interferometer 133 shown on the right side of the drawing.
- This laser interferometer 133 is connected to the control device 115.
- a command is sent from the control device 115 that slides the position of the wafer stage 11 to the target position to the driver 134, and the drive device 132 Is driven.
- the position of the wafer stage 11 can be accurately feedback controlled in real time.
- the electron beam that has passed through the reticle R on the reticle stage 111 in the reticle chamber 118 is converged by the condenser lens 124 a in the projection optical system barrel 121.
- the electron beam that has passed through the condenser lens 124 a is deflected by the deflector 124 b, and an image of the reticle R is formed at a predetermined position on the wafer 29. As a result, the wafer 29 is exposed.
- the exposure accuracy can be improved by improving the positioning accuracy of the wafer 29 attracted to the electrostatic chuck 27. Also, since the wafer 29 can be easily detached from the electrostatic chuck 27, Luput can be improved.
- the transfer arm 37 has a double structure, and the wafer is carried in and out almost simultaneously. Also good.
- the energy line for transferring the force pattern described in the example in which the stage apparatus of the present invention is applied to the charged particle beam exposure apparatus is not particularly limited, and light, ultraviolet light, X-ray ( Soft X-ray, EUV, etc.), charged particle beam (electron beam, ion beam), etc. may be used.
- the exposure method is not limited, and can be widely applied to reduced projection exposure, close-by-magnification transfer, direct drawing method, and the like.
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