Progress in proximity electron lithography: demonstration of print and overlay performance using the low-energy electron beam proximity-projection lithography  tool

Shinji Omori; Shinichiro Nohdo; Shoji Nohama; Kouichi Nakayama; Kazuya Iwase; Tomonori Motohashi; Keiko Amai; Yoko Watanabe; Kazuharu Inoue; Isao Ashida; Hidetoshi Ohnuma; Hiroyuki Nakano; Shigeru Moriya; Tetsuya Kitagawa

doi:10.1117/1.1759326

1 July 2004 Progress in proximity electron lithography: demonstration of print and overlay performance using the low-energy electron beam proximity-projection lithography β-tool

Shinji Omori, Shinichiro Nohdo, Shoji Nohama, Kouichi Nakayama, Kazuya Iwase, Tomonori Motohashi, Keiko Amai, Yoko Watanabe, Kazuharu Inoue, Isao Ashida, Hidetoshi Ohnuma, Hiroyuki Nakano, Shigeru Moriya, Tetsuya Kitagawa

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Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, Vol. 3, Issue 3, (July 2004). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1759326

Abstract

The lithographic performance of the low-energy electron-beam proximity-projection lithography (LEEPL) β-tool is demonstrated in terms of printability and overlay accuracy to establish the feasibility of proximity electron lithography (PEL) for the 65-nm technology node. The CD uniformity of 5.8 nm is achieved for the 1× stencil mask, and the mask patterns are transferred onto chemically amplified resist layers, coupled with a conformal multilayer process with the mask-error enhancement factor of nearly unity. Meanwhile, the overlay accuracy of 27.8 nm is achieved in the context of mix and match with the ArF scanner, and it is also shown that real-time correction for chip magnification, enabled by the use of die-by-die alignment and electron beam, can further reduce the error down to 21.3 nm. On the basis of the printability of programmed defects, it is shown that the most critical challenge to be solved for the application to production is the quality assurance of masks such as defect inspection and repair.

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Shinji Omori, Shinichiro Nohdo, Shoji Nohama, Kouichi Nakayama, Kazuya Iwase, Tomonori Motohashi, Keiko Amai, Yoko Watanabe, Kazuharu Inoue, Isao Ashida, Hidetoshi Ohnuma, Hiroyuki Nakano, Shigeru Moriya, and Tetsuya Kitagawa "Progress in proximity electron lithography: demonstration of print and overlay performance using the low-energy electron beam proximity-projection lithography β-tool," Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS 3(3), (1 July 2004). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1759326

Published: 1 July 2004

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