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Immersion and Multiple Patterning

Immersion and Multiple Patterning

In 2006, the NSR-S609B immersion scanner marked a major milestone in the Nikon immersion program. Over the past fifteen years we have maintained an aggressive roadmap delivering innovative scanner solutions to satisfy the increasingly stringent requirements for immersion and multiple patterning applications. During that time, Nikon developed the NSR-S620D, based on the pioneering Streamlign platform, to not only enable double patterning lithography at 32 nm, but to provide extendibility to next-generation applications. This was followed by the evolutionary NSR-S621D and S622D generation systems, as well as the S630D, S631E and S635E scanners. Most recently the NSR-S625E and NSR-S636E immersion scanners have been announced.

It is real-world, on-product performance that is vital to chipmakers, and industry-leading Nikon immersion scanners ensure world-class device patterning and optimum fab productivity to fully satisfy cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing requirements. The pioneering inline Alignment Station (iAS) is a high speed, extremely accurate wafer pre-measurement module integrated between the coater/developer and NSR-S625E, NSR-S635E and NSR-S636E scanners. iAS provides feed forward alignment results for all shots on every wafer, delivering better alignment and overlay—with no impact on throughput. iAS capabilities can also be extended to other scanners in the fab with the Litho Booster Standalone Alignment Station. In addition to delivering shot-by-shot feed forward corrections, Litho Booster provides an open platform for expanded overlay, autofocus, and process control solutions as well.

Immersion and Multiple patterning scanner image

In 2006, the NSR-S609B immersion scanner marked a major milestone in the Nikon immersion program. Over the past fifteen years we have maintained an aggressive roadmap delivering innovative scanner solutions to satisfy the increasingly stringent requirements for immersion and multiple patterning applications. During that time, Nikon developed the NSR-S620D, based on the pioneering Streamlign platform, to not only enable double patterning lithography at 32 nm, but to provide extendibility to next-generation applications. This was followed by the evolutionary NSR-S621D and S622D generation systems, as well as the S630D, S631E and S635E scanners. Most recently the NSR-S625E and NSR-S636E immersion scanners have been announced.

It is real-world, on-product performance that is vital to chipmakers, and industry-leading Nikon immersion scanners ensure world-class device patterning and optimum fab productivity to fully satisfy real-world 5 nm node requirements and beyond. The pioneering inline Alignment Station (iAS) ) is a high speed, extremely accurate wafer pre-measurement module integrated between the coater/developer and NSR-S625E, NSR-S635E and NSR-S636E scanners. iAS provides feed forward alignment results for all shots on every wafer, delivering better alignment and overlay—with no impact on throughput. iAS capabilities can also be extended to other scanners in the fab with the Litho Booster Standalone Alignment Station. In addition to delivering shot-by-shot feed forward corrections, Litho Booster provides an open platform for expanded overlay, autofocus, and process control solutions as well.

NSR-S636E

Delivers superior overlay accuracy and ultra-high throughput.

 

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NSR-S635E

Provides world-class device patterning and productivity for cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing.

 

NSR-S625E immersion scanner
NSR-S625E

Delivers optimum performance and productivity for middle critical immersion layers.

 

 
Alignment Stations
Litho Booster

Standalone Alignment Station delivering shot-by-shot feed forward corrections to maximize yield.