Optical profilometry of additional-material deviations in a periodic grating

   
   

Disclosed is a method and system for measurement of periodic gratings which have deviations which result in more than two materials occurring along at least one line in the periodic direction. A periodic grating is divided into a plurality of hypothetical layers, each hypothetical layer having a normal vector orthogonal to the direction of periodicity, each hypothetical layer having a single material within any line parallel to the normal vector, and at least one of the hypothetical layers having at least three materials along a line in the direction of periodicity. A harmonic expansion of the permittivity .epsilon. or inverse permittivity 1/.epsilon. is performed along the direction of periodicity for each of the layers including the layer which includes the first, second and third materials. Fourier space electromagnetic equations are then set up in each of the layers using the harmonic expansion of the permittivity E or inverse permittivity 1/.epsilon., and Fourier components of electric and magnetic fields in each layer. The Fourier space electromagnetic equations are then coupled based on boundary conditions between the layers, and solved to provide the calculated diffraction spectrum.

 
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