Patent ID: 8547526

Claim:
A photolithography system, comprising: a radiation source configured to provide an illumination radiation; a substrate support spaced apart from the radiation source, the substrate support being configured to support a microelectronic substrate divided into a plurality of fields individually having a plurality of regions, an individual region corresponding to a die and/or other microelectronic device, a firs region corresponding to a normal region not intersecting with a peripheral edge of the microelectronic substrate and a second region corresponding to a partial region intersecting with the peripheral edge of the microelectronic substrate; a programmable radiation filter between the radiation source and the microelectronic substrate; and a controller operatively coupled to the radiation source, the substrate support, and the programmable radiation filter, the controller having a computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for performing a process comprising exposing the first region of a field to the illumination radiation while selectively blocking a second region of the field from the illumination radiation, the blocked second region having an outline that generally follows a corresponding outline of the die and/or other microelectronic device of the partial region.