US 11,955,387 B2
Method of fabricating a semiconductor device
Seongkeun Cho, Suwon-si (KR); Eunhee Jeang, Paju-si (KR); Jihun Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR); Gyumin Jeong, Ulsan (KR); Hyunjae Kang, Gunpo-si (KR); and Taemin Earmme, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/386,323.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0178020 (KR), filed on Dec. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0199473 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. H01L 21/66 (2006.01); H01L 21/311 (2006.01)
CPC H01L 22/12 (2013.01) [H01L 21/31144 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of fabricating a semiconductor device, the method comprising:
forming a lower pattern on a substrate, the lower pattern including a parent pattern;
forming an upper thin film on the lower pattern and the substrate;
forming a photoresist pattern on the upper thin film, the photoresist pattern including a child pattern located on the parent pattern;
measuring a diffraction light from the parent and child patterns to obtain an intensity difference curve of the diffraction light versus its wavelength;
measuring a first reflection light from the parent pattern to obtain a first reflectance versus its wavelength;
measuring a second reflection light from the child pattern to obtain a second reflectance versus its wavelength;
examining whether a first peak of the first reflectance is smaller than a second peak of the second reflectance; and
obtaining a first wavelength corresponding to a peak of the intensity difference curve located near the first peak, and performing an overlay measurement process on the parent and child patterns using a diffraction light that has the first wavelength to obtain an overlay measurement value, when the first peak is smaller than the second peak.