An overlay mark for checking the alignment accuracy between a lower layer
and a lithography process for defining an upper layer is described,
including a part of the lower layer having two first x-directional
trenches, two first y-directional trenches, two second x-directional
trenches and two second y-directional trenches therein, and two
x-directional and two y-directional photoresist bars thereover that are
surrounded by the trenches and formed in the lithography process. When
the lower layer is fully aligned with the lithography process, the
intersection of the central line of the two first x-directional trenches
and that of the two first y-directional trenches, the intersection of the
central line of the two second x-directional trenches and that of the two
second y-directional trenches and the intersection of the central line of
the two x-directional photoresist lines and that of the two y-directional
photoresist lines coincide with each other.