Internship: Investigation of influences of target imperfection in overlay metrology Job in Veldhoven, Netherlands

ASML is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chip-making equipment.

Our vision is to enable affordable microelectronics that improve the quality of life. To achieve this, our mission is to invent, develop, manufacture and service advanced technology for high-tech lithography, metrology and software solutions for the semiconductor industry.

ASML's guiding principle is continuing Moore's Law towards ever smaller, cheaper, more powerful and energy-efficient semiconductors. This results in increasingly powerful and capable electronics that enable the world to progress within a multitude of fields, including healthcare, technology, communications, energy, mobility, and entertainment.

Working at ASML
We provide the world’s top chipmakers everything they need to create better performing, cheaper semiconductor chips. Simply put: we are an industry leader supporting industry leaders.

As such, you’ll be encouraged to bring your best ideas and act on them. You’ll have the freedom, trust, and support in your field to experiment and solve complex challenges. Things are rarely dull when you’re constantly breaking new ground.

But despite our fast-paced environment at the forefront of tech, we take your work-life balance and wellbeing seriously. A business is only as good as its employees.

So join us, and you’ll be a part of a global collaboration. One that promotes creativity, the inclusion of highly diverse teams, and an exciting and dynamic work environment. Join us, and you’ll be a part of progress.

Internship: Investigation of influences of target imperfection in overlay metrology Job Description

Introduction
Are you a Master's student with an Physics background with a focus on Optics (imaging)? Then this internship could be interesting for you! 

Job Mission
The control of overlay, which is defined as the alignment error between two semiconductor layers, plays a vital role in semiconductor manufacturing and it directly impacts the fabrication yield and profit margin. With the continued shrinkage of the size of a transistor on a chip, the overlay budget becomes tighter and tighter. Typically, overlay is measured with the help of metrology targets which are assumed to be close to perfect. 

Job Description
In this assignment, you will investigate how overlay target imperfection influences overlay metrology by performing numerical experiments. The learnings from experiments will be used to create a better overlay model. 
This assignment requires to understand the ASML state of art tooling at the level that you can modify it. This assignment will be carried out in the ASML Research department. You will interact with various experts from ASML Research and experience the difference between research in industry and research in academia. 

Internship: Investigation of influences of target imperfection in overlay metrology Job Requirements

Education
You are a Master’s student with a background in Physics, with a focus on Optics (imaging). You have experience with simulation in Matlab. You are a team player, excellent communicator, flexible, committed and self-initiating.   
This is an internship for 5 days a week with a minimum duration of 4 months.
Please keep in mind that we can only consider students (who are enrolled at a school during the whole internship period) for our internships and graduation assignments. 

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What ASML offers
Your internship will be in one of the leading Dutch corporations, gaining valuable experience in a highly dynamic environment. You will receive a monthly internship allowance of 500 euro (maximum), plus a possible housing or travel allowance. In addition, you’ll get expert, practical guidance and the chance to work in and experience a dynamic, innovative team environment.

ASML: Be part of progress
We make machines that make chips – the hearts of the devices that keep us informed, entertained and safe; that improve our quality of life and help to tackle the world’s toughest problems.

We build some of the most amazing machines that you will ever see, and the software to run them. Never satisfied, we measure our performance in units that begin with pico or nano.

We believe we can always do better. We believe the winning idea can come from anyone. We love what we do – not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard. 

Students: Getting ready for real-world R&D
Pushing technology further is teamwork, and our R&D team is more than 5,500 people strong, with major sites on three continents. Dozens of diverse, interdisciplinary teams work in parallel to meet a challenging development schedule. 

In such an environment, your colleagues may be sitting next door, or they could be thousands of kilometers away in a different country, or even working for a different company.

An internship at ASML is your opportunity to get to know this world of industrial-strength R&D and get a feel for that excites you most. Will you design a part of the machine, or make sure it gets built to the tightest possible specifications? Will you write software that drives the system to its best performance, or work side-by-side with the engineers of our customers in a fab, optimizing a system to the requirements of the customer?

How will you be part of progress?

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