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CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) Erlana Larkins pleased dozens of family and friends on her homecoming trip Thursday.
Larkins, from neighboring Riviera Beach, Fla., scored 18 points to lead No. 2 North Carolina to a 79-61 victory over Miami.
"I just like to see my family," said Larkins, who estimated 40 family and friends in the stands. "I don't think it had any effect on the game. Playing Miami was like playing any other game. But it was still good to see them because I come home only once a year."
Larkins finished 7-for-8 from the field and converted all four of her free-throw attempts.
She could have taken more shots but she was double-teamed quite a bit, North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell said.
Rashanda McCants finished with 17 points and Rebecca Gray scored a career-high 15 points as the Tar Heels wore down the Hurricanes with two first-half runs.
North Carolina (25-2, 12-0) has won eight straight and 16 of its past 17. Maurita Reid scored 18 points to lead Miami (9-17, 2-9).
"It was a good team effort," Hatchell said. "We're just glad to get another ACC win on the road."
The Hurricanes have lost eight of their past nine. Trailing 12-9, the Tar Heels scored 16 unanswered points in a span of 5:50 in the first half and took the lead for good. McCants scored eight points during the spurt.
"We started out really slow, our intensity wasn't what it needed to be," Hatchell said. "But we made some key substitutions. We got some fresh people in there and got some good transition."
Jessica Breland's short jumper with 7:12 remaining in the half capped the run. Reid hit three 3-pointers in the next 1:50 as the Hurricanes cut North Carolina's lead to 27-21. Damisha Moore's field goal with 3:50 left again cut North Carolina's lead to six at 29-23.
But the Tar Heels outscored the Hurricanes 18-5 the rest of the half, behind Gray's eight points, including two 3-pointers.
"They're a wonderful team, they share the ball so well," Miami coach Katie Meier said.
McCants' jumper with 7:05 remaining in the second half gave North Carolina its biggest lead at 75-49 before Miami finished the game on a 12-4 run.
Miami played without senior center Carla Williams, who had started 22 of the team's 25 games. Meier suspended Williams and reserve freshman center Kathryn Hester for a violation of team rules.
Williams was suspended for the North Carolina game while Hester's suspension is indefinite, according to a statement from the Miami sports information office.
Earlier in the week, Hurricanes senior guard Albrey Grimsley quit the team.
"The team really responded to adversity and I was very proud of that," Meier said.
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If you think finding Mideast peace and deciphering the health care bill are complicated, consider the protocol surrounding the investigation into what caused a 2008 Toyota Prius to speed up to 90 miles an hour on a California freeway, allegedly on its own, and almost kill its driver, James Sikes, seen above meeting with reporters outside of a Toyota dealership near San Diego.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigators started investigating the cause of the incident yesterday, but stopped abruptly when a congressional aide demanded to get in on the act, the Los Angeles Times reports. The aide had come to witness the inspection, expected to take several days. The resulting delay took hours to resolve:
The team stopped work as soon as the unnamed aide from the office of Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., showed up, but NHTSA later relented. Now the aide gets to watch. Other reports say the California Highway Patrol is taking part in the probe, too.
And, of course, Toyota said Monday it is dispatching a lone field representative, not an army of engineers , to do its own tests on the car. It is the latest example of Toyota's aloof reaction to what sounds like the case that could become the smoking gun of unintended acceleration. Toyota might as well underplay it.
Toyota spokesman John Hanson today disputes that the automaker has been aloof in response to the incident. He said that several representatives are now taking part in the probe, working side by side with NHTSA. "We're doing all the physical and electronic inspection and we are there with NHTSA," he said. "NHTSA informed us they wanted to be directly involved in the analysis of this vehicle. We took it to the dealership and didn't touch it until they showed up."
The incident happened the same day that Toyota put on a big seminar to try to deflate television news reports and convince the media that the computer systems in the car are not at fault.
Chris Woodyard is an auto writer for USA TODAY who covers all aspects of motoring. He revels in the exhaust note of a Maserati and the sharp creases of a Cadillac CTS. Chris strives to live a Porsche life on a Scion budget. More about Chris


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99 Counties, 100,000 miles and almost 10,000 signatures - Update from Tom Fiegen, candidate for US Senate, Iowa
As you know, I have been crisscrossing the state meeting with working Iowans. I attended
Democratic Party events in all 99 counties in 2015, putting 100,000 miles on my truck in the
process. So far this year, I have already been to 32 counties on my second lap around Iowa.
No other Democratic candidate can say that. All that hard work thus far paid off yesterday.
We delivered almost 10,000 signatures from every corner of Iowa to Secretary of State Paul
Pate. This officially puts my name on the ballot for the June 7th primary.
Now comes the next phase of the race. We need to raise the money to get our message out. You know that I have never made a lot of money representing struggling family farmers and small businesses. I don't have a super-PAC and don't want one because I represent working Iowans.
Can I count on you to pitch in $10 or more to help the campaign? Here's a link: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/tomfiegen
The simple truth is that it's no longer enough to nibble at the edges of the problems we face
in Iowa and nationally. They are too big and they're not going away. We must talk about the
elephants in the room:
A flood of special interest money has now everything in Washington, D.C., for sale to the
high bidder. Exhibt "A" is Chuck Grassley who answers to his wealthy donors and not to
working people. It means that everything that we care about and everything we want to
change is being blocked by big money.
Big money does not care about the problems that we face, like: Wall Street rip-offs of
consumers, minimum wages that are below the poverty line, rigged trade agreements,
crippling student loan debt, two sets of justice, overpriced prescription drugs, our inability to
afford healthcare, ag poisons in our water, climate change and unhealthy food (including
unlabeled GMOs).
I'm working hard to be your voice, a voice for working people. But I need your help
to win this election. If you can volunteer, put up a yard sign, knock on doors, email,
call, or post to Social Media – you are helping! To volunteer, please click here:
This election is our chance to finally reclaim Chuck Grassley's Senate seat from special
interest money. Please take a minute to visit www.fiegenforussenate.com to find out how
you can help me bring back a government that works for all of us – not just the billionaires.
Tom Fiegen
Iowa Democratic US Senate candidate Tom Fiegen delivers almost 10,000 nominating signatures to Secretary of State Paul Pate.
Des Moines - U.S. Senate candidate Tom Fiegen delivered almost 10,000 nominating petition signatures to Iowa's Secretary of State's Paul Pate in Des Moines today. The signatures guarantee Fiegen will be on the June 7th Democratic primary ballot. Fiegen aims to unseat Republican Chuck Grassley.
"While receiving four times the required number of signatures to get on the ballot is a gratifying show of voter support, even more important to me, these signatures came from every corner of Iowa - big cities, suburbs and tiny rural communities. The four big blue binders we filled with nominating petitions represent a diverse cross section of Iowa", said Fiegen.
Fiegen visited all 99 counties in 2015, putting 100,000 on his truck miles in the process. He has already been to 32 counties again in 2016, intending to visit all 99 again.
Fiegen is a supporter of Bernie Sanders and endorses the economic reforms Sander's calls for, including campaign finance reform, breaking up the big banks, raising the minimum wage, student loan reform and Medicare for all.
"I am a candidate with no super-PAC. I don't want their money. That's because I don't represent billionaire interests. I represent working Iowans. Our system has fallen far out of balance and it's time to fix it."
In addition, Fiegen is calling for the next Farm Bill to include a water quality requirement for all farmers and farms in order for them to qualify for federal subsidies, as a way of dealing with ag poisons in Iowa's water. He is also a proponent of the local food movement and has committed to making the production, processing and marketing local food - via small farms - the focus of federal farm policy.
Fiegen, 57, is a bankruptcy attorney from Clarence, Iowa. He previously served in the Iowa State Senate from 2001-2003, is a former adjunct economics professor and is the father of four grown children.
To understand Iowa's US Senator Chuck Grassley, follow the money.
My name is Tom Fiegen. I am running in the Democratic primary in Iowa to retire Chuck Grassley. I have spent my career representing working people. I am not taking super-PAC money. I am the son of sharecropper parents who worked hard to buy a farm of their own and then faced foreclosure during the Farm Crisis of the 1980s. If you think a United States Senator should do their job, and represent the people, not the billionaires and the oligarchs, help me retire Chuck Grassley. As Bernie Sanders says, enough is enough.
Senator Grassley has declared in writing his refusal to interview a replacement judge for the vacancy on the Supreme Court. What's much more interesting is what's behind Chuck Grassley's obstructionism. To know, we have to look behind the curtain to see who's pulling Chuck Grassley's strings.
It's the big money contributors.
We're talking about really big money pulling Chuck Grassley's strings. It is the wealthiest of the wealthy, the one-tenth of 1% who consider an Obama Supreme Court nominee a profound threat to their grip on power. Bribes in the guise of campaign contributions might no longer work if the balance on the Supreme Court shifted.
These powerful oligarchs are the ones who really employ and pay Chuck Grassley. They have told him to do whatever it takes to preserve their power. A conservative Supreme Court has given the billionaires and oligarchs the political and economic power to run the country since Reagan. They don't want to take a chance on losing that power. That's why Chuck Grassley put his refusal to do his job in writing: to reassure the billionaires and the oligarchs that he is following their orders, not ours.
Senator Grassley's written refusal to do his job is more than the usual partisan political games. This time, everything we care about as American citizens hangs in the balance as a 4 - 4 split Supreme Court punts on all the important issues. Things like: Citizens United, government intrusion into our private lives, corporate fraud, unfair tax havens for the super-wealthy, poisons in our environment, police brutality, employer spying, and the Constitution itself. Leaving a vacancy on the Supreme Court for over a year means our last line of defense against a Corporate Big Brother government and the billionaire robber barons will be locked in a perpetual 4 - 4 tie.
82 year old Senator Grassley is running for another six year term this year. Do we really want to reelect a career politician who is willing to put our Constitutional freedoms at risk to please his billionaire contributors?
Tom Fiegen, Leading US Senate Candidate, Iowa, endorses Bernie Sanders for President of the United States
Tom Fiegen, Leading US Senate Candidate, Iowa, endorses Bernie Sanders for President of the United States
October 28, 2015
Clarence, Iowa –
Iowa's leading Democratic candidate for US Senator in Iowa, Tom Fiegen, today announced his endorsement of Bernie Sanders for President. Tom is running against Republican incumbent, Chuck Grassley.
"I am supporting Bernie Sanders because he is fighting to protect working Americans from billionaire special interests, overturn Citizens United, to deliver relief to crushing student debt, expand social security and enact massive campaign finance reform. Bernie has demonstrated unconditional loyalty to working people since he was Mayor of Burlington. In Iowa I am committed to protect and expand Iowa's grown-local farm movement; label GMO's, and clean up Iowa's water by stopping the excessive use of dangerous chemicals in agriculture.
Chuck Grassley is a special interest Senator whose devotion is to Wall Street, Big Pharma and the ultra-wealthy, not working Iowans. Thanks to Senator Grassley, Iowa seniors are paying more for their prescriptions and have had their Social Security benefits frozen. I stand with Bernie Sanders on the need for a grassroots revolution to take our democracy back from oligarchs.
I first heard Senator Bernie Sanders speak in Iowa at the Clinton County Democrats' Hall of Fame Dinner in Goose Lake, Iowa on May 17, 2014. More people attended the speech than live in the town of Goose Lake. The speech was a clear, loud call to reject political bribery under Citizens United and to reject divisive politics that pits Americans against each other to enrich the top 1% of our citizens.
The 300 people at the dinner reacted to the speech like they had been hit with a lightning bolt. The energy and enthusiasm was so high that the room immediately filled with talk of "This guy from Vermont should run for President." I handed my card to the staffer with Senator Sanders and said, "If Senator Sanders ever decides to run for President, let me know, I will do everything that I can to help.
In March of 2015, I was privileged to introduce Senator Sanders to 100 of my fellow citizens in Cedar County on his first visit to this Iowa county. I told them, "If we are going to leave a better country and world to our children and grandchildren, it has to start with this guy. It has to start with President Bernie Sanders." After his speech, I encouraged Senator Sanders to run for President, and to run as a Democrat.
Now the whole country is hearing the message - the political truth - that we heard in Goose Lake, Iowa in May 2014. Bernie Sanders has started a political revolution with his campaign for President, a revolution against the oppression of the billionaires and the politicians who work for them. He has served notice for all of us on the oligarchs that enough is enough.
Saturday night at the Iowa Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner during my introduction as a United States Senate candidate, I proudly held a Bernie Sanders for President sign above my head for the 6,000 assembled Democrats and the nation to see.
Today, I make good on the promise I made to the Senator in May, 2014. I wholeheartedly endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for President of the United States and pledge to do everything in my power to get him elected and pledge that if elected as the next United States Senator from Iowa I'll have his back in the next Congress. I will work as hard to pass his legislative priorities as I will work to get him elected."
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Tom will be interviewed live in the KRUU studios with host Steven Boss. The show streams at www.kruufm.com. The opening segment of the show is Brooks Headley, former executive pastry chef at Del Posto, the only Italian restaurant to be awarded four-stars by the New York Times. He left that post about three months ago and opened Superiority Burger, a vegetarian burger joint in the East Village that is attracting a lot of attention. The KRUU show is Great Taste, and the first half hour is dedicated to national/international journalists, farmers, food producers, authors, chefs, etc., and the second half hour focuses on Iowa personalities.


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IRVING, Texas With NFL owners voting Tuesday to award the 2014 Super Bowl to New York/New Jersey, the possibility of staging the league's signature event at open-air stadiums in other Northern venues just received a gust of optimism.
That much was evident with the bounce in the step of Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder, whose vision to mount a bid several years ago to bring a Super Bowl to the nation's capital never materialized into a formal package.
Given New York's successful bid, which wasn't deterred by winter weather, Washington now has a better chance of landing a Super Bowl, Snyder said.
"This probably helps us in a big way," Snyder said. "A positive experience in 2014 could help sway anybody who is hesitant because of their perceptions about cold weather."
Owners took four secret ballots to rubber stamp the $1.6 billion New Meadowlands Stadium as site of Super Bowl XVLIII, chosen over the Tampa Bay area and South Florida. The New York bid, themed "Make Some History," couldn't offer the balmy Florida temperatures. Instead it emphasized the historic significance of having an outdoor Super Bowl in the North.
Said New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, "We hope it snows."
The result also advanced the notion that, for as much as it sells tradition, the NFL now exists in an age of bold, out-of-the-box thinking ushered in by Commissioner Roger Goodell.
"This is clearly a 'now' moment," New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch said. "It's a game-changer."
Tisch can envision other Northern cities trying to follow New York's lead.
Boston? Chicago? Philadelphia? Seattle?
"I don't think it's at all unrealistic for (New England Patriots owner) Bob Kraft, for Dan Snyder," Tisch said. "We're opening a door. One thing that's going to be very significant in 2014 is how it all goes logistically. And clearly the weather on Super Bowl Sunday is going to be of tremendous importance.
"It's going to be more than a long shot that more East Coast cities are going to try to do the same thing that we've done. If it's a success, we would have shown the NFL that this can be done."
Still, the novelty that New York has achieved may be just that.
"This didn't open the door wide, it opened up a crack," said Marc Ganis, a sports franchise consultant. "Besides Washington, I don't know if any other Northern city with an outdoor stadium can make a compelling case. New York is New York and the nation's largest market. There was a lot of sympathy for the city after 9/11. And this is a way for the league to support a $1.6 billion stadium."
Johnson said the economic impact to the New York area for the 2014 Super Bowl was estimated at more than $500 million. That and a financial package that was stronger than other finalists' surely trumped the weather.
Ah, the weather. That won't make Super Bowl XLVIII any less attractive for possible participants — even if congestion poses logistical challenges.
Said Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones: "I'll go out and play when the lights are out, when the moon is on the wrong side of the sun."
Briefly: During a news conference staged less than a mile from the NFL meetings, retired players directed much of their dissatisfaction with their pension and benefits plan against NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith and other union officials. Former Cowboys tight end Billy Joe DuPree, who co-authored a book, The Unbroken Line, said he hoped attention cast on the plight of retirees would inspire current players to better support their predecessors. ... The NFL announced a partnership with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) that will include game-day initiatives that will begin with pilot programs at stadiums in Oakland and Buffalo. ... Further action on the NFL's modified overtime rule, instituted for the postseason only, has been tabled. Goodell said the league wanted to discuss the issue further with business partners (including the TV networks) and take steps incrementally. Not everyone agrees with an approach that leaves the NFL with separate overtime rules for the regular season and postseason. "I'd like to keep it consistent," Cowboys owner Jones said, "and take it right into the regular season."
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Ten Best New Fast-Casual Eateries in Metro Denver in 2014
Clint Wangsnes of Chop Shop knows that fast and casual doesn't have to mean boring.
Danielle Lirette
Denver has been an incubator for fast-casual restaurants ever since Chipotle made a big splash with its first store in the mid-'90s. But the evolution of the concept has gone far beyond burritos and sandwiches. Fast and casual doesn't have to mean cheap and greasy. Quite a few eateries opened this year with counter service, menu options that can be cooked quickly or served up point-and-order style, and relaxed dining rooms perfect for families with kids, savvy urban residents on the go, or budget-minded diners looking for great food without the added expense that full-service dining entails.
In fact, so many new quick-service joints have sprung up that we've compiled our favorites in one list. Keep reading for the ten best new fast-casual restaurants in metro Denver to open in 2014, in alphabetical order.
See also: The Fifteen Best New Restaurants in Metro Denver in 2014
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10) Babajoon's Kabobs 1005 West 120th Avenue, Westminster 303-974-5400 Babajoon's opened in April, serving flame-grilled kabobs in the traditional Persian style and house-made flatbreads called taftoon baked in a custom-made oven. The place is bright and modern and filled with the aroma of spices, baking bread and charbroiled meats. While Denver has its share of tasty Middle Eastern eateries, this Westminster gem stands out for the freshness, unique menu and cheery service.
Danielle Lirette
9) Biju's Little Curry Shop 1441 26th Street 303-292-3500
Biju's just managed to open its doors before year-end, beating a few other eateries -- a new Park Burger and Osaka Ramen -- to the punch in a new development at 26th Avenue and Walnut Street. But it didn't take long for LoHi residents to realize that the South Indian curries and chapati wraps were something new on the scene. House-made sauces with tamarind, toasted coconut and fiery bird's eye chiles add screamingly fresh bursts of flavor to the already complex and layered vindaloo, Kerala garlic beef, coconut curry chicken and other house specialties. Colors and flavors collide in both the food ad decor; rich saffron yellows and deep browns highlight both the biriyani and the art on the walls. "This is the stuff me and my brothers grew up eating," says chef Biju Thomas, and now he's sharing it with Denver.
8) Bruxie 1000 South Colorado Boulevard, Glendale 303-963-9045
After getting its start in California, Bruxie chose Colorado for its first out-of-state store, opening on South Colorado Boulevard earlier this year. "We knew we wanted to take our concept out of Orange County, and as we were thinking of cities that really appreciate good food, Denver, from our perspective, was front and center as a city that's food- and chef-centric and would appreciate our concept," explains co-founder Dean Simon; he and Kevin Mullarney partnered with Jeff Goodman and Matt Stein (who both have formidable restaurant backgrounds) to open the Denver shrine to waffles and the "bold fold" - sandwiches that sub Belgian waffles for bread and load them with interesting stuffings. "It's about well-thought-out and composed flavors that really pop and explode, and it's about creating sandwiches where every ingredient has a purpose and the compelling flavors move you to the next bite," says Stein. Those flavors could range from fillings of grilled ham, Tillamook cheddar, eggs and a vibrant pesto arugula to subtly sweet lemon-cream-smeared waffles with fresh blueberries. The restaurant also offers salads and specialty coffees.
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An altercation broke out between Donald Trump supporters and protesters at the Republican presidential nominee's campaign rally in Asheville, North Carolina.
A man from the crowd went over to violently confront a group of anti-Trump protesters as they were being escorted out on Monday from the US Cellular Center arena.
A video of the incident shows the man with his hands on a protester's neck. Moments later, the man lobbed a blow at the protester.
The man pulled another protester toward him and shouted back and forth with a third, female protester while a member of Trump's security team held him back. He also shouted at a female protester wearing a hijab who was not with the group but was also escorted out.
The unidentified man was allowed to remain for the rest of the rally despite his actions.
It is not the first time Trump's campaign rally has turned violent. Trump's campaign has been marked by hateful name-calling and controversy from the beginning, including disparaging remarks about women, Mexican immigrants and Muslims.
Trump, however, seemed unaware of the altercation and criticized his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for having called some of his supporters a "basket of deplorables" during a fundraiser last Friday in New York City.
Clinton had used the phrase in reference to any "racist, sexist, xenophobic [or] Islamaphobic" Trump supporters.
The 68-year-old former First Lady was forced to abruptly leave a 9/11 memorial in New York on Sunday due to a medical episode, stirring speculations about her well-being.
The candidate's physician, Dr. Lisa Bardack, released a statement via the campaign and said she had pneumonia.
An NBC News/Survey Monkey tracking survey released on Tuesday shows Clinton leading Trump by only 4 points, 48 to 44 percent, among registered voters.
She was leading Trump by 10 points in the same poll about five weeks ago.
The NBC poll also shows that a majority of registered voters hold an unfavorable view of both Trump and Clinton, and consider them not trustworthy.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – At Churchill Downs, the alcohol flows copiously and continuously. Mint juleps, champagne and high-end beer lubricate the Kentucky Derby, and for a race run this year on Cinco de Mayo, it seems utterly appropriate that a horse apparently named for drinking to excess would win.
Only problem with that too-perfect scenario? The origins of Derby winner I'll Have Another's name are far more innocent.
J. Paul Reddam, the horse's owner, named him in honor of his wife's cookies – more specifically, his response every time she asks if he'd like one more cookie. It's optimism combined with satisfaction, and it's exactly what everyone associated with the horse is feeling.
Before a record crowd of more than 165,000, I'll Have Another ran down a favored and thoroughly dominant Bodemeister to cap an unlikely rise to racing's pinnacle. Bought for $11,000 in 2010 and $35,000 in 2011, the 15-1 shot brought the first-ever Derby win to Reddam, trainer Doug O'Neill and jockey Mario Gutierrez. He was also the first horse in the 138-year history of the Derby to win from the 19th post.
"To win a race like this you need a plan," Reddam said. "And since this winter, pretty much everything has gone according to plan."
O'Neill's brother, Dennis, spotted the then-two-year-old horse at a training sale in Ocala, Fla., in 2011. And while the horse wasn't the most heralded of that lot, it wasn't exactly Charlie Brown Christmas tree material either.
[Related: Slideshow: Photos from the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby]
"Honestly, when he went through the ring, I said, 'This is a perfect horse,' " Dennis O'Neill said. "I thought he would be $60,000 or $80,000. When he went for 35, I was surprised.… He goes the same way now that he did then – a beautiful, long stride on him."
I'll Have Another paid immediate dividends after the purchase, defying 43-1 odds to win the Robert B. Lewis Stakes in February at Santa Anita. Two months later at the same track, the horse took down the Santa Anita Derby, then rested for four weeks in preparation for the Derby.
The horse began the Derby in the 19th post, just one spot from the outside. But right from the start, Gutierrez knifed the horse into the pack and had him in the mix in sixth at the quarter-mile mark. He dropped back to 7th, 2½ lengths back, at the half-mile pole, but then steadily began a climb through the ranks.
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In Bodemeister, I'll Have Another was chasing a horse that was posting astonishing splits, holding the lead through turn after turn. As the pack came into the straightaway, Bodemeister held a tenuous lead that grew shorter with every stride. In the final yards, Gutierrez knew that I'll Have Another had everything necessary to take out Bodemeister. He ended up winning by 1½ lengths in a respectable 2:01.83.
"He's such a professional horse," Gutierrez said of I'll Have Another. "He's a really calm horse.… As soon as you ask him, he throws everything on the race, and he didn't disappoint today."
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Sorokin's disclosure earlier this week of a massive botnet comprised entirely of Macs is serving as a lightning rod for the community of a few hundred top virus hunters worldwide, some of whom would like to see Apple become more collaborative about defending the Internet against cybercriminals.
"Maybe Apple will feel a little of the pain their users are now feeling and get serious about being more candid and perhaps more revealing in their patch release notifications," says Paul Henry, security and forensic analyst at network security company Lumension.
Henry notes that calculating the number of infected Macs has been relatively easy, since the Trojan "actually sends a copy of each infected Mac's UUID to the command and control server."
Sorokin used sinkhole technology to redirect the botnet traffic to Dr. Web's own servers to count infected Macs.
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An unpatched portion of Java left Mac users prone to the Flashback Trojan, which causes the machine to quietly report to a command and control server for further instructions. Mac users can get infected by navigating to a viral web page pre-loaded to deliver a driveby download tuned to exploit this Java vulnerability.
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What do we think is the value of education? What is its purpose?
We tend to think of education, whether formal schooling or informal experience, as "a preparation for life" by the young person involved. That is wrong. Real education should be a continual part of life itself, from birth to death.
Some think the purpose of education is to help you get a "better" job. For them that would mean higher pay or a more interesting job. This is basically a short-term, sometimes selfish, economic point of view.
Some see education as learning the knowledge and skills that are needed to live a normal life in our modern interdependent society. This is a "survival" point of view, without much point beyond the selfish desire of "going along to get along."
Others see education as valuable because it brings out and develops the talents and abilities latent in every individual. This is more of a "life" point of view that respects and values the individual human being. But, an important question remains – is this for the glory of the individual, or is it for the purpose of better serving your neighbor and your society?
The purpose of formal education can also be seen in a broader and less practical sense. This purpose is to develop and discipline the mind, the understanding, the feelings and values of our individual life within the framework of life in general and the framework of the natural creation that supports this life. An important additional purpose of education is to promote the coordination of mind and hand in useful and creative work. Now we are getting closer to the ultimate goal and benefit of education.
Alexander Pope said, "The proper study of mankind is man." Shakespeare said in Hamlet, "To thine own self be true, and it follows as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." These quotes tell me that we all share the same basic human nature, and we need to know what that is. Knowing who and what you are and what you share with all others should give you the humility to value and respect others as much as you do yourself.
The Scottish poet, Robert Burns, wrote, "Would that God the gift give us to see ourselves as others see us." Real education will help us to realize this wish.
At this level real education becomes a matter of building positive and constructive human relationships. For true education to take place, your Self must become involved. Mutual trust between students and between student and teacher will make learning a joyful and interesting activity that encourages openness and sharing. But, because of our selfish human nature, trust will sometimes be broken. Then what should we do to restore that trust? The wrong that broke that trust must be openly recognized and sincerely regretted. To heal the broken relationship of trust, forgiving love is needed. Where is this forgiving love going to come from? It must come from the ultimate giver of life, God. You can find a good description of this love of God in 1 Cor. 13. This is the basis of all true education, whether formal or informal.
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Weigh your steer to establish a starting weight. It's preferable to use scales, but the weight can be estimated by measuring the steer's heart girth and body length. Weight equals the heart girth multiplied by itself and the body length and the total divided by 300. Weight should be taken every three to four weeks until finished.
Determine the desired daily gain for your steer. If raising for a show, use the show date as your finish date for the steer. Determine the desired weight at finish, often dependent upon the breed of the steer. Divide the number of pounds left to gain by the number of days left to calculate the desired daily gain.
Figure feed ration based upon desired daily gain. The simplest way to figure rations is to use computer programs designed specifically for the complex task. Most local extension offices or state agricultural departments offer such services to the community. Rations should balance nutritional concerns with financial concerns and be palatable to the steer to ensure he will eat it.
Commercially made premixes are available and provide a simpler alternative to figuring and mixing your own rations. Commercial mixes are designed in growing rations and finishing rations. For those less experienced this is a viable option.
Remember to include a protein supplement, such as soybean meal or linseed oil meal, and minerals such as calcium, phosphorous and potassium. Minerals should be offered free choice through the feeding out process.
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- The finishing process should include at least the final 140 days of feeding out the steer. At this point, the steer should be receiving 70 to 80 percent of his feed in the form of various grains including corn and oats.
- Change your steer's diet gradually over several weeks to avoid digestive upset. This is true whether transitioning from pasture to hay or when adding grain to the diet.
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Early in June 1888, a lonely Dutchman sent a letter from the shore of the Mediterranean. Its waters, he noted, had a colour 'like mackerel, in other words, always changing – you don't always know if it's green or purple – you don't always know if it's blue – because a second later its changing reflection has taken on a pink or grey hue'. Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) wrote, as he painted, with great energy and force. When you read that passage, you can see the waves at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer as he saw them: a symphony of colour.
This monumental new edition of his correspondence includes high-quality reproductions of all the pictures relevant to each letter. So after reading Van Gogh's picture in words, one turns the page and there are his paintings of that ever mutable sea. Its other strength lies in the thoroughness with which every person mentioned, every book, exhibition, painting, magazine, newspaper article (Van Gogh was a voracious reader) has been identified and annotated. Fifteen years of work by a team of scholars at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, has gone into these volumes, and it shows.
Together, the illustrations and the footnotes make it easier to grasp at all times what Van Gogh is talking about. The downside, as is frequently the case with definitive editions, is a steep decrease in portability. This six-volume set is not an item to pop into one's luggage to read on a trip to Provence, or dip into in bed. There is still plenty of room for an abridged selection – of which there have been plenty in the past and will doubtless be more in the future.
There has been a succession of editions and translations of the letters over the years. Those to Van Gogh's brother Theo and other members of his family – the overwhelming majority – were first published in 1914 in an edited form. Bit by bit, more text has appeared. One example was the information, embarrassing in the light of his posthumous fame and near saintly status, that in 1880 Van Gogh's family tried to have him committed to an asylum in Belgium.
These volumes contain all 902 of the existing letters, 819 sent by Van Gogh and 83 received by him. As is true of most historic correspondences, there is an element of accident in what has survived.
Van Gogh, chaotically untidy, preserved few of the letters he was sent, but the long-suffering Theo kept most of his. Consequently, much of the time we only read half of a conversation – albeit, the crucial part: Van Gogh's story in his own words.Those are now somewhat changed by the new translation. The tone of Van Gogh's voice is slightly different, blunter and more immediate – not surprisingly since most of the letters were dashed off at the end of a long day. It is claimed this version is more faithful to the original Dutch and French (Van Gogh wrote in the latter language after his move to France in 1886).
Occasionally there are changes in the order of letters and in the texts themselves. One major alteration, though not a surprise, is that the relatively calm letter earlier thought to have been sent just before Van Gogh's crisis and self-mutilation of December 1888 has now been moved to an earlier date. The new order makes much better psychological sense. After Van Gogh's wildly excited account of his excursion with Gauguin to the art gallery at Montpellier – one of the most fraught attempts at art appreciation in history – there is an ominous silence. When we next hear from Van Gogh he is recovering in the hospital at Arles.
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Simon James (46) did not inform his victims that he was HIV-positive before having sex with them on a number of occasions.
He later admitted he had the virus but insisted the medication he was taking eradicated any risk of the women contracting it.
Bristol Crown Court heard James refused to wear condoms as he claimed he was allergic to them, they were uncomfortable and did not fit him.
James was not taking medication or attending hospital appointments during the time he had unprotected sex with the women, between 2007 and 2013.
He denied two counts of grievous bodily harm by recklessly transmitting HIV but was convicted by a jury following a five-day trial in October.
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Beijing Institute of Technology, School of Optoelectronics, Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic Imaging Technology and System, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing 100081, China
Optimization technologies have been widely applied to improve lithography performance, such as optical proximity correction and source mask optimization (SMO). However, most published optimization technologies were performed under fixed process conditions, and only a few parameters were optimized. A method for mask, process, and lithography-tool parameter co-optimization (MPLCO) is developed to extend the process window. A normalized conjugate gradient algorithm is proposed to improve the convergence efficiency of the MPLCO when optimizing different scale parameters. In addition, a parametric mask and source are used in the MPLCO that could obtain exceedingly low mask and source complexity compared with a traditional SMO.
Mask, process, and lithography-tool parameters are the most important aspects for achieving high lithography performance. Various methods have been proposed to optimize these parameters in recent years. Optical proximity correction is the main technology to optimize the mask pattern to enhance the resolution.1 Source mask optimization (SMO) improves the lithography performance by co-optimizing the illumination source and mask.2 The optimized mask structure and source shape via SMO suffers from extreme complexity, especially for the pixelated mask and source,3–5 which leads to difficulty in manufacturing. Furthermore, the parameters related to the process, such as the film stacks, postexposure bake (PEB), and photoresist development, have a strong impact on the process window (PW).6,7 However, most published optimization technologies were implemented under fixed process conditions.3,8,9 Moreover, lithography-tool parameters such as the numerical aperture (NA) and source parameter also determine the PW.1 Actually, the parameters related to the mask, process, and lithography tool simultaneously impact the lithography performance.10,11 The lithography effects caused by multiple parameter errors could compensate for each other,12 indicating that the co-optimization of multiple parameters could improve the PW. However, no effective methods have been published for co-optimizing the mask, process, and lithography-tool parameters.
In this study, the first time to our knowledge, a co-optimization method is developed to simultaneously optimize the mask, process, and lithography-tool parameters. The PW is extended by co-optimizing the parameters rather than optimizing them independently. An effective co-optimization flow is built to realize this goal. Conjugate gradient algorithm is used to calculate the search direction in optimization. The parameters are optimized along the search direction, where a line search is applied within the parameters' boundary. Mask, process, and lithography-tool parameter co-optimization (MPLCO) is a multidimensional optimization method. As large-scale parameters are obstructed by small-scale parameters during co-optimization, we also propose a normalized conjugate gradient (NCG) algorithm to improve the convergence efficiency of the MPLCO. In order to reduce the complexity of the mask and source, a parametric mask and source are used in the MPLCO. The mask pattern is optimized by adding bias and changing the feature transmittance, while the source shape is optimized by only adjusting the sigma value in the MPLCO. As an example, we chose eight parameters in the MPLCO to optimize 45-nm node patterns. The MPLCO results show that the depth of focus (DOF) of the line-space pattern is 93.75% larger than only mask and source are optimized. At the same time, the complexity of the mask and source has been reduced compared with pixelated SMO in 3. In order to further improve the PW of the SMO work in 3, we optimize the process parameters of the SMO. The DOF of the SMO with optimized process parameters is 13.54% larger than the SMO for the line-space pattern but still smaller than that of MPLCO. The co-optimization results demonstrate that the large PW could be obtained only if the mask, process, and lithography-tool parameters are optimized simultaneously.
The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. In Sec. 2, the MPLCO is described in detail. The optimization results are presented in Sec. 3. Finally, the conclusions are summarized in Sec. 4.
The goal of MPLCO is to achieve high lithography performance in a large PW. To realize this goal, we first create an effective cost function to evaluate the lithography performance. The cost function is sufficient in promoting the optimization of the PW and benefits to the optimization procedure. Then, the parameters are optimized along the search direction iteratively until the largest PW is found.
The cost function is composed of the DOF, image contrast, and normalized image log-slope (NILS). Usually, the PW is measured under a designated metrology plane, where the metrology plane is a slice through the aerial image or photoresist pattern to make the measurement. The overlap of PW (common PW) through various metrology planes could evaluate the overall lithography performance. A common method for evaluating the overlap PW is to examine the DOF with specific exposure latitude (EL), and a larger DOF indicates better lithography performance.11,13 Thus, the DOF is chosen as the main objective function in the optimization. The DOF is a highly nonlinear function; it is usually been trapped at a local minimum when using a gradient-based algorithm.14,15 Some other objective functions should be used to assist in optimizing the DOF. Because the image contrast and NILS are strongly related to the DOF14,16–18 and converge much easier than DOF, they can serve as the assistant objective function in promoting the optimization of the DOF. Therefore, the cost function is formulated as a superposition of the objective functions mentioned above by assigning different weights. Display Formula
The cost function is beneficial to optimizing the PW, while the image contrast and NILS are used to promote the optimization of the DOF. Thus, the weight εj should be set much larger than w1 and w2 in optimization.
PROLITH software is used to simulate the DOF, contrast, and NILS owing to its superior ability in lithography simulation, where the mask, process, and lithography-tool models are accurately established.
In this section, the parametric-based MPLCO is proposed and realized by an NCG algorithm. First, all parameters in the optimization are normalized in the same scale. Then, the parameters are optimized along the search direction iteratively until the best combination of mask, process, and lithography-tool parameters is found. Because the combination of mask, process, and lithography-tool parameters is a multidimensional point in the optimization space, we use point instead of combination and use xn to denote each parameter in the following sections.
The co-optimization flow can be generalized in the following steps, as shown in Fig. 1.
It is noted that a restitution operation (an inverse operation of normalization) is necessary for the simulation of F when calculating the search direction (step 3) and applying the line search (step 5). All parameters need to be restituted to their original scales for the PROLITH simulation of DOF, contrast, and NILS.
Without the parameter normalization step (step 2) and the restitution operation, the optimization procedure can be denoted as a conventional conjugate gradient (CCG) method. The NCG method is developed on the basis of the CCG method and is an improvement of the CCG method. The normalizing operation could greatly improve the convergence when optimizing different-scale parameters, and the advantage is demonstrated in Sec. 3.2.
Co-optimization flow. All the parameters are normalized into the same scale in optimization and should be restitute to their original scales for PROLITH simulation in step 3 and step 5.
Illustration of the global boundary and local boundary. A(a1,a2) and B(b1,b2) are the global boundaries of the two parameters x1 and x2, which have been set in step 1, while U(u1,u2) and V(v1,v2) are the local boundaries along the search direction d(d1,d2).
The MPLCO is a multidimensional optimization method; thus, all parameters related to the mask, process, and lithography tool could be optimized simultaneously. The convergence robustness of the MPLCO is guaranteed in three aspects. First, the cost function we built is easy to converge. As the DOF is easily trapped at the local minimum, we add the image contrast and NILS as assistant objective function. Second, the normalization in MPLCO guarantees the optimization of different scale parameters. Third, the Hopfinger golden section search method used in MPLCO is able to solve the nonunimodal cost function.
Two typical geometries of a 45-nm node are used to demonstrate the validity of the MPLCO: the semidense line-space pattern and the dense contact hole. The duty ratios of these patterns are 1:2 and 1:1. The critical dimension (CD) of the line is 45 nm, while the CD of the contact hole is 60 nm.3 The PROLITH programming interface helps to communicate between the optimization algorithm and PROLITH.25 The PROLITH simulation condition is same as that in 3 except that the parameters have been optimized. We use a water (nwater=1.44) immersion lithography system with the demagnification factor R=4. The source shape is annular with a fixed sigma width σwidth=0.15. The illumination is Y-polarized for the line-space pattern and TE-polarized for the contact hole.3 Since a tunable transmittance mask is available, the feature transmittance could be varied over a large range,26 and an attenuated phase-shift mask is used to enhance the lithography capability. The well-calibrated photoresist JSR ARX2895JN is used with a thickness of 120 nm for the line-space pattern and 102 nm for the contact hole.3 Dual bottom antireflective coatings (BARCs) are applied to reduce the substrate reflectivity and are optimized under the initial parameter settings. The thicknesses of BARCs are 33 and 43 nm for the line-space pattern and 24 and 43 nm for contact hole. The PW is constrained by the tolerances of ΔCD=±10%CD, an 80-deg sidewall angle, and a 10% photoresist loss to maintain pattern fidelity.27
It is necessary to use a robust photoresist model to optimize the process parameters. In order to accurately simulate the process conditions, a full physical photoresist model, three-stage PEB model, and Mack development model are used in PROLITH.25 The full physical photoresist model is capable of simulating the reaction and diffusion of a chemically amplified photoresist accurately. The three-stage PEB model describes the temperature variation when the wafer is placed on a hotplate or chillplate and the wafer transition time between the two plates.6 The three-stage temperature profile is represented by nine parameters: the bake temperature, the bake duration, and the temperature rise (or fall) time for each stage. The initial temperature is 25°C. The temperatures for the hotplate stage, transfer stage, and chillplate stage are 110, 45, and 25°C, respectively. The rise (or fall) times for these three stages are 5, 50, and 5 s, respectively.25
Eight parameters including the mask, process, and lithography-tool parameters are selected as an example to demonstrate the validity of the MPLCO. For the mask parameters, the mask bias and feature transmittance are optimized. For the process parameters, the hotplate duration, transition duration, chillplate duration, and photoresist development time are chosen for the optimization. For the lithography-tool parameters, the outer sigma σout of annular illumination and the NA are selected for the optimization.
The DOF at EL=5% is chosen to evaluate the PW, where EL=5% is a common value for 45-nm lithography and is closer to the actual case.10 The goal of co-optimization is to extend the DOF at EL=5% to be as large as possible. The DOF at EL=3% is another objective function in the optimization. The weights for PContrast, PNILS, PDOF@EL=5%, and PDOF@EL=3% in F are w1=0.2, w2=0.1, ε1=10, and ε2=2, respectively. Only one metrology plane is set for each pattern, and the metrology plane could cover a whole pitch. The PWs measured at the metrology planes are the overlap PWs for these two infinite and periodic patterns. The metrology plane for the line space is a cutline perpendicular to the line direction, while for the contact hole the cutline is set at the center of the hole. The optimization terminates after 20 iterations of the line search.
The unoptimized parameters for the line space and contact hole are set as the initial point {x}(0). The ranges of the parameters are set in a reasonable range, which ensures that the values of the parameters are realizable in lithography. The conditions for the initial value {x}(0), the minimum value (lower global boundary), the maximum value (upper global boundary), and the increment of the parameters {Δx} are listed in Table 1. Owing to the different properties of these parameters, different increments Δxn and Δx¯n are set to calculate the gradient for the CCG and NCG methods. It is noted that Δxn is the actual value of the parameter, while Δx¯n is the normalized value.
The results are demonstrated in two aspects. We first present the improvement in the PW by using the MPLCO method. The convergence efficiency of the MPLCO by using the CCG (MPLCO-CCG) method and the proposed NCG (MPLCO-NCG) method are also compared. Then, the mask and source complexities are compared between the MPLCO method and the pixelated SMO in 3.
The optimized parameters of the MPLCO-CCG and MPLCO-NCG methods are listed in the last two columns in Table 1. The MPLCO-CCG results show no changes for the mask bias, PEB duration, and develop time, although the small-scale parameters are well optimized. This is mainly due to the drawback of the local boundary calculation when optimizing the different scale parameters. The optimization of the large-scale parameters is limited by small-scale parameters in the optimization procedure. However, when all the parameters are normalized to the same scale in the MPLCO-NCG method, the optimization can move further. The normalized method could improve the convergence efficiency of the optimization. Figure 3 illustrates the convergence curve of the MPLCO-CCG and MPLCO-NCG methods, which show that the MPLCO-NCG method could effectively reduce the cost function.
Convergence curves of the mask, process, and lithography-tool parameter co-optimization–conventional conjugate gradient (MPLCO-CCG) and MPLCO–normalized conjugate gradient (NCG) methods for the (a) line space and (b) contact hole. The cost function could be effectively reduced after the parameters have been normalized when using the MPLCO-NCG method.
The MPLCO-NCG method greatly decreases the hotplate and chillplate duration but increases the development time. The PEB mainly affects the reaction of chemically amplified photoresist, which thereby impacts the profile of the photoresist. The entire PEB durations are 29.96 and 99.67 s for the line-space pattern and contact hole, which are shorter than the initial setting of 100 s. The development time affects the CD of the photoresist, which has been optimized to 60 and 24.37 s for the line-space pattern and contact hole. The optimized process parameters ensure the exact chemical reaction of the photoresist with an acceptable profile in a large PW.
The EL versus DOF curves for the line-space pattern and contact hole are illustrated in Fig. 4. The curves denoted with triangles and stars represent the PW of the MPLCO-CCG and MPLCO-NCG methods, respectively. We use the dashed line to indicate the DOF at EL=5% in the figure. The DOF at EL=5% of the MPLCO-CCG and MPLCO-NCG methods are 0.349 and 0.558 μm for the line-space pattern, respectively, and 0.344 and 0.356 μm for the contact hole, respectively. The PW is greatly extended after co-optimization, especially when the mask, process, and lithography-tool parameters are well optimized by using the MPLCO-NCG method. The DOF at EL=5% of the MPLCO-NCG method increases by 59.89 and 3.49% for the line-space pattern and contact hole compared with the MPLCO-CCG method. The reason is mainly because the large-scale parameters are not being optimized when using the MPLCO-CCG. The comparison between MPLCO-CCG and MPLCO-NCG indicates that the more parameters have been well optimized, the larger PW can be obtained. As an SMO work is done to extending the PW in 3, the EL versus DOF curve of the SMO denoted with square is represented in Fig. 4. The DOF at EL=5% of the SMO is 0.288 μm for line-space pattern and 0.172 μm for contact hole, which are much smaller than the DOF of MPLCO-NCG. The comparison between the MPLCO and SMO could also prove that large PW can be obtained when more parameters are involved in optimization.
Exposure latitude (EL) versus depth of focus (DOF) comparison for the (a) line space and (b) contact hole. The process window (PW) is greatly extended when the mask, process, and lithography-tool parameters are well optimized simultaneously by using the MPLCO-NCG method. The PW of source mask optimization (SMO) with optimized process condition is larger than that of SMO, but smaller than MPLCO-NCG.
In order to demonstrate the merits of MPLCO and the impact of the process parameters on lithography, we only optimize the process parameters under the condition that the mask and source are optimized by the SMO in 3. The increments of NCG method are Δx¯n=0.01 for the line-space pattern and Δx¯n=0.1 for the contact hole. The parameter settings and optimized results are listed in Table 2. The EL versus DOF curves are shown in Fig. 4. The DOF at EL=5% of the SMO with process optimization (PO) are 0.327 μm for the line-space pattern and 0.178 μm for the contact hole, which are 13.54 and 3.49% larger than that of SMO. This verifies that the PW could be extended by optimizing the process parameters. From Fig. 4, we also find that the DOF at EL=5% for the MPLCO-NCG method is still larger than that of SMO with PO. Although the maximum EL of the MPLCO-NCG method is smaller than that of SMO and SMO with PO, the DOF at EL=5% of the MPLCO-NCG method definitely increases. The results indicate that a large PW could be obtained only if the mask, process, and lithography-tool parameters are optimized simultaneously.
The second advantage of the proposed MPLCO method is to reduce the mask and source complexity. A parametric mask and source are used in the MPLCO. For comparison, Fig. 5 shows the mask pattern and source shape of the SMO, MPLCO-CCG method, and MPLCO-NCG method. For the contact hole of the SMO, the mask pattern is much more complex compared with the MPLCO-CCG and MPLCO-NCG results. A complex mask is difficult to manufacture and will greatly increase the cost of mask fabrication. For the parametric mask, the mask pattern has only been biased rather than applying complex mask correction, which could reduce the complexity of the mask. The source shapes of the SMO results suffer from an intricate distribution with a nonuniform intensity. It is necessary to use a customized diffractive optical element or an expensive programmable illuminator to generate the pixelated source. However, one just needs to adjust the sigma value for the parametric source in which the source shape always has high uniformity and stability.
Comparison of the optimized mask pattern and source shape among the SMO, MPLCO-CCG, and MPLCO-NCG results. The parametric mask and source optimized by MPLCO-CCG and MPLCO-NCG suffers less complexity compared with pixelate SMO.
The mask error enhancement factor (MEEF) is compared. The MEEF of the SMO result, MPLCO-CCG result, and MPLCO-NCG result are 5.45, 4.74, and 4.47 for the line-space pattern, respectively, and 12.69, 15, and 15.39 for the contact hole, respectively. There are nearly no improvements for the MEEF when using MPLCO compared with SMO. The MEEF of MPLCO result is smaller than SMO result for line-space pattern, but larger than SMO result for contact hole. Contact hole suffers the largest MEEFs of any feature type because the change in mask size of a regular contact hole will lead to change in exposure dose.27 There are more clear areas at the corner of contact hole optimized by SMO; the change of mask size will lead to less change in exposure dose compared with the regular contact hole optimized by MPLCO. Therefore, the MEEF of regular contact hole optimized by MPLCO is larger than the contact hole optimized by SMO.
This paper proposes an MPLCO method that can optimize the mask, process, and lithography-tool parameters simultaneously. An NCG algorithm is used in the MPLCO to improve the convergence efficiency and is successfully applied to optimize different scale parameters. As the process parameters have strong impact on lithography performance, it is necessary to use a full physical photoresist model to simulate the process behavior accurately when optimizing the process parameters. The PW of the SMO with optimized process is larger than the SMO, but still smaller than that of MPLCO. The results indicate that the more parameters have been optimized simultaneously, the larger PW could be obtained.
In addition, the complexity of the mask and source could be greatly reduced by using the MPLCO compared with the SMO. The mask pattern has only been biased rather than applying complex mask correction, while the source shape is controlled by adjusting the sigma value. The assumption and simplification for the mask is sufficient when optimizing the one-dimensional line-space pattern and two-dimensional contact hole. The cost of fabrication could be greatly reduced by using the parametric mask and source. In our future work, we will model the complex two-dimensional mask pattern in parametric form and apply the MPLCO to it.
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Science and Technology Major Project, Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60938003, and National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61204113. This work is also supported by the Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic Imaging Technology and System, Beijing Institute of Technology, Ministry of Education of China, under Grant No. 2013OEIOF05. We thank KLA-Tencor Corporation for providing academic use of PROLITH.
Xuejia Guo received his BS degree in optical information science and technology from University of Jinan in 2008. He is currently a PhD candidate directed by Professor Yanqiu Li in the School of Optoelectronics at Beijing Institute of Technology. His current interests involve lithography simulation and optimization.
Yanqiu Li received her MS and PhD degrees in optics from Harbin Institute of Technology of China. She is currently a professor of School of Optoelectronics at Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. She holds over 30 Chinese patents and has published numerous articles on lithographic science.
Lisong Dong received his BS degree in applied physics from Hefei University of Technology, China, in 2008. He is currently a PhD candidate directed by Professor Yanqiu Li at Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. His research interests include lithography simulation and resolution enhancement technology.
Lihui Liu received his BS and MS degrees in optics from Hebei University, respectively, in 1999 and 2002. He received his PhD from Institute of Modern Optics in NanKai University in 2005. He is currently an associate professor of School of Optoelectronics at Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. His research is focused on optical sensing, lithography simulation, and optimization.
Xuejia Guo ; Yanqiu Li ; Lisong Dong and Lihui Liu"Co-optimization of the mask, process, and lithography-tool parameters to extend the process window", J. Micro/Nanolith. MEMS MOEMS. 13(1), 013015 (Mar 18, 2014). ; http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JMM.13.1.013015
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