An Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Inverse Lithography Problem

An Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Inverse Lithography Problem

Year:    2023

Author:    Junqing Chen, Haibo Liu

Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 16 (2023), Iss. 3 : pp. 820–846

Abstract

We propose an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to solve an optimization problem stemming from inverse lithography. The objective functional of the optimization problem includes three terms: the misfit between the imaging on wafer and the target pattern, the penalty term which ensures the mask is binary and the total variation regularization term. By variable splitting, we introduce an augmented Lagrangian for the original objective functional. In the framework of ADMM method, the optimization problem is divided into several subproblems. Each of the subproblems can be solved efficiently. We give the convergence analysis of the proposed method. Specially, instead of solving the subproblem concerning sigmoid, we solve directly the threshold truncation imaging function which can be solved analytically. We also provide many numerical examples to illustrate the effectiveness of the method.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/nmtma.OA-2022-0151

Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 16 (2023), Iss. 3 : pp. 820–846

Published online:    2023-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    27

Keywords:    Inverse lithography techniques ADMM framework total variation regularization.

Author Details

Junqing Chen

Haibo Liu