Model-based edge detection in height map images with nanometer resolution

Details Model-based edge detection in height map images with nanometer resolution Model-based edge detection in height map images with nanometer resolution

Oct 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004spie.5578..476t&link_type=abstract

Photonics North 2004: Optical Components and Devices. Edited by Armitage, John C.; Fafard, Simon; Lessard, Roger A.; Lampropoul

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The advances at the semiconductor fabrication cause a need for three-dimensional measurements within the micro- and nanometer range. A method to derive lateral measuring information from height profiles with nanometer resolution is shortly introduced. Thereby, measurements are taken with a high resolution, point-wise working laser sensor. The paper discusses in detail the analysis of the measuring signal as observed at different height standards. At height standards with discontinuities smaller than the coherence length of the laser the measuring signal overshoots. This effect is called batwing effect. The novel approach comprises the utilisation of the batwing effect to determine the edge position. The characteristic signal curve is modelled with an appropriate mathematical function. Thus, edge detection algorithms well known from optical precision measurements are modified and applied to calculate the location of the edge along the scan line of the laser sensor. Exemplary, an experimental standard deviation of 8.2 nm of the width of a 69 nm high height standard is attained. The measurements with the laser focus sensor are compared with AFM measurements at the same height standard. The presented work results from the collaborative research centre (SFB) 622 supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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