Abstract:Mask three-dimensional (M3D) effects are non-negligible for imaging simulation of EUV lithography systems. Especially, the curvilinear mask obtained by inverse lithography technique (ILT) increases the difficulty to calculate the diffraction spectrum of the thick masks. In this paper, a fast thick-mask model based on multi-channel U-Net (MCU-Net) is proposed to solve this problem. The diffraction near-field (DNF) of thick mask in EUV lithography is characterized by four complex-valued diffraction matrices, the… Show more
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