“…Complete fundamental knowledge of the physical relation among the photolithography variables is not yet available. There do exist photolithography models that attempt to cope with the multidimensional nature of the process, such as those implemented in the programs SAMPLE (Oldham et al, 1979), PROLITH (Mack, 1985), PROSIM (Garza and Grindle, 1986), and SPESA (Bernard, 1985). Although these models provide quantitative process descriptions useful for the purpose of comparing alternative processing procedures and for analyzing process trends, they are too extensive for on-line production control.…”