Calibration method for optical metrology

Details Calibration method for optical metrology Calibration method for optical metrology

2011-04-12

2011-04-12

Geisel, Kara E (Department: 2877)

Optics: measuring and testing

By dispersed light spectroscopy

Utilizing a spectrometer

Reexamination Certificate

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07924422

ABSTRACT:
A zoned order sorting filter for a spectrometer in a semiconductor metrology system is disclosed with reduced light dispersion at the zone joints. The order sorting filter comprises optically-transparent layers deposited underneath, or on top of thin-film filter stacks of the order sorting filter zones, wherein the thicknesses of the optically-transparent layers are adjusted such that the total optical lengths traversed by light at a zone joint are substantially equal in zones adjacent the zone joint. A method for wavelength to detector array pixel location calibration of spectrometers is also disclosed, capable of accurately representing the highly localized nonlinearities of the calibration curve in the vicinity of zone joints of an order sorting filter.

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