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van Es, M.H. (author), Tamer, S. (author), Bloem, E. (author), Fillinger, L. (author), van Zeijl, E. (author), Maturová, K. (author), van der Donck, J.C.J. (author), Willekers, R.W. (author), Chuang, C.B. (author), Maas, D.J. (author)Patterning photoresist with extreme control over dose and placement is the first crucial step in semiconductor manufacturing. However, how can the activation of modern complex resist components be accurately measured at sufficient spatial resolution? No exposed nanometre-scale resist pattern is sufficiently sturdy to unalteredly withstand...article 2023
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van Deventer, M.O. (author), Spethmann, N. (author), Loeffler, M. (author), Amoretti, M. (author), van den Brink, R. (author), Bruno, N. (author), Comi, P. (author), Farrugia, N. (author), Gramegna, M. (author), Jenet, A. (author), Kassenberg, B. (author), Kozlowski, W. (author), Länger, T. (author), Lindstrom, T. (author), Martin, V. (author), Neumann, N.M.P. (author), Papadopoulos, H. (author), Pascazio, S. (author), Peev, M. (author), Pitwon, R. (author), Adriaan Rol, M. (author), Traina, P. (author), Venderbosch, P. (author), Wilhelm-Mauch, F.K. (author)The Second Quantum Revolution facilitates the engineering of new classes of sensors, communication technologies, and computers with unprecedented capabilities. Supply chains for quantum technologies are emerging, some focused on commercially available components for enabling technologies and/or quantum-technologies research infrastructures,...article 2022
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Quesson, B.A.J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), Tamer, M.S. (author), Hatakeyama, K. (author), van Es, M.H. (author), van Riel, M.C.J.M. (author), Piras, D. (author)The semiconductor industry needs to fit ever more devices per unit area to improve their performance; hence a trend towards increasingly complex structures by varying material combinations and 3D geometries with increasing aspect ratios. The new materials used may be optically opaque, posing problems for traditional optical metrology methods....conference paper 2022
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Rossi, A. (author), Hendrickx, N.W. (author), Sammak, A. (author), Veldhorst, M. (author), Scappucci, G. (author), Kataoka, M. (author)Single-charge pumps are the main candidates for quantum-based standards of the unit ampere because they can generate accurate and quantized electric currents. In order to approach the metrological requirements in terms of both accuracy and speed of operation, in the past decade there has been a focus on semiconductor-based devices. The use of a...article 2021
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van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), Quesson, B.A.J. (author), Tamer, M.S. (author), Hatakeyama, K. (author), van Es, M.H. (author), van Riel, M.C.J.M. (author), Piras, D. (author)Several methods are being researched to detect and characterize buried nanoscale structures in hard solid samples. The most common acoustic method is acoustic microscopy. An acoustic microscope is based on a single element transducer operating in pulse-echo mode. The acoustic waves are coupled into a sample using a liquid couplant (eg water) and...article 2021
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Fiore, A. (author), Galeotti, F. (author), Liu, T. (author), Petruzzella, M. (author), Sersic-Vollenbroek, I. (author), Lindgren, G.G. (author), Pagliano, F. (author), van Otten, F.W.M. (author), van Veldhoven, P.J. (author), Pogoretskiy, V. (author), Jiao, Y. (author), Mohtashami, A. (author), Sadeghian Marnani, H. (author), van der Heijden, R.W. (author)In this talk we will present recent process on the integration of nano-opto-electro-mechanical sensors with photonic circuits and optical read-out, showing a route towards fully-integrated optical sensing.conference paper 2021
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van Es, M.H. (author), Quesson, B.A.J. (author), Mohtashami, A. (author), Piras, D. (author), Hatakeyama, K. (author), Fillinger, L. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author)In order to extract ever more performance from semiconductor devices on the same device area, the semiconductor industry is moving towards device structures with increasingly complex material combinations and 3D geometries. To ensure cost effective fabrication of next generation devices, metrology solutions are needed that tackle the specific...conference paper 2020
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Buijs, R.D. (author), Schilder, N.J. (author), Wolterink, T.A.W. (author), Gerini, G. (author), Verhagen, E. (author), Koenderink, A.F. (author)Super-resolution imaging is often viewed in terms of engineering narrow point spread functions, but nanoscale optical metrology can be performed without real-space imaging altogether. In this paper, we investigate how partial knowledge of scattering nanostructures enables extraction of nanoscale spatial information from far-field radiation...article 2020
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Galeotti, F. (author), Seršić Vollenbroek, I. (author), Petruzzella, M. (author), Pagliano, F. (author), van Otten, F.W.M. (author), Zobenica, Aa. (author), Mohtashami, A. (author), Sadeghian Marnani, H. (author), van der Heijden, R.W. (author), Fiore, A. (author)Miniaturization of displacement sensors for nanoscale metrology is a key requirement in many applications such as accelerometry, mass sensing, and atomic force microscopy. While optics provides high resolution and bandwidth, integration of sensor readout is required to achieve low-cost, compact, and parallelizable devices. Here, we present a...article 2020
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Herfst, R.W. (author), Nulkes-de Groot, N. (author), Lucas, P. (author), Bijnagte, T. (author), Dekker, B. (author), Biemond, J.J.B. (author), van Riel, M.J.C.M. (author), van Essen, B.H.M.F. (author), van Koppen, M.E.C.T. (author), Oosterling, J.A.J. (author), Kramer, L. (author), Nieuwkoop, E. (author), Corbet, F. (author), Visser, L. (author), Man, H. (author)We developed a new 3D-AFM technique that enables imaging of high aspect ratio trenches. By measuring both lateral and vertical forces on a cantilever tip, a subharmonic mode based on the attractive tip-sample forces becomes feasible. This enables the measurement of true 3D information of samples without causing damage. This is especially...other 2019
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Witvoet, G. (author), Peters, J. (author), Kuiper, S. (author), Keyvani, S. (author), Willekers, R.W. (author)TNO is developing a novel Large Dynamic Range Atomic Force Microscope (LDR-AFM), primarily but not exclusively designed for sub-nm accurate overlay metrology. The LDR-AFM combines an AFM with a 6 degrees- of-freedom interferometric positioning stage, thereby enabling measurements of sub-nm features on a wafer over multiple millimeters marker-to...conference paper 2019
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Kramer, L. (author), van den Dool, T.C. (author), Witvoet, G. (author)Abstract: High throughput qualification of semiconductor devices is needed to improve cost efficiency. This paper describes a nano-precision capable, multi-agent, flexible positioning platform, which can be used to increase (metrology) throughput in semiconductor industry by parallelization of measurements. It is based on magnetic levitation and...conference paper 2019
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van Reijzen, M.E. (author), Tamer, M.S. (author), van Es, M.H. (author), van Riel, M.C.J.M. (author), Keyvani Janbahan, A. (author), Sadeghian Marnani, S. (author), van der Lans, M.J. (author)In this paper, we present an AFM based subsurface measurement technique that can be used for overlay and critical dimensions (CD) measurements through optically opaque layers. The proposed method uses the surface elasticity map to resolve the presence and geometry of subsurface structures. To improve the imaging performance of the AFM based...conference paper 2019
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van den Berg, S. (author), Dekker, P. (author), van der Laan, T. (author), Otter, G.C.J. (author), Dijkhuizen, N. (author), Gür, B. (author), Brinkers, S. (author)SI traceable calibration of satellite instruments like spectroradiometers get increasingly important in space-based observation for various reasons. First, requirements on measurements in terms of accuracy, dynamic range and wavelength range get increasingly demanding. Second, long term observations require SI traceability for comparability of...conference paper 2018
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Tamer, M.S. (author), van der Lans, M.J. (author), Sadeghian Marnani, H. (author)Image Based Overlay (IBO) measurement is one of the most common techniques used in Integrated Circuit (IC) manufacturing to extract the overlay error values. The overlay error is measured using dedicated overlay targets which are optimized to increase the accuracy and the resolution, but these features are much larger than the IC feature size....conference paper 2018
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Koster, N.B. (author), te Sligte, E. (author), Molkenboer, F.T. (author), Deutz, A.F. (author), van der Walle, P. (author), Muilwijk, P.M. (author), Mulckhuyse, W.F.W. (author), Oostdijck, B.W. (author), Hollemans, C.L. (author), Nijland, B.A.H. (author), Kerkhof, P.J. (author), van Putten, M. (author), Westerhout, J. (author)TNO is building EBL2 as a publicly accessible test facility for EUV lithography related development of photomasks, pellicles, optics, and other components requiring EUV exposure. EBL2 consists of a EUV Beam Line, a XPS system, and sample handling infrastructure. Recently we finished installation of the source, exposure chamber, handlers and XPS...conference paper 2017
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Koster, N.B. (author), te Sligte, E. (author), Deutz, A.F. (author), Molkenboer, F.T. (author), Muilwijk, P.M. (author), van der Walle, P. (author), Mulckhuyse, W.F.W. (author), Nijland, B.A.H. (author), Kerkhof, P.J. (author), van Putten, M. (author)Recently TNO has established EBL2; an exposure and analysis facility for testing EUV optics, reticles and pellicles under relevant EUV scanner and source conditions. The facility and EUV source complies with the ASML power roadmap of EUV systems up to a power of 500 W IF. This enables life time testing of EUV optics, reticles and pellicles under...conference paper 2017
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Snel, R. (author), Winters, J. (author), Liebig, T. (author), Jonker, W.A. (author)Contemporary production systems of mechanical precision parts show challenges as increased complexity, tolerances shrinking to sub-microns and yield losses that must be mastered to the extreme. More advanced automation and process control is required to accomplish this task. Often a solution based on feedforward/feedback control is chosen...conference paper 2017