In nanoimprint with UV curable resin, a mold fabricated by etching quartz by using Cr as a hard mask is
generally used. For fine pattern fabrication, Cr fine pattern etching technology is very important. Usually, the
realization of enough resolution needs a resist thickness reduction, which, however, makes it difficult to etch
extremely fine Cr features with vertical sidewalls.
Here, we propose a brand-new method called "reverse EB process". In this method, an electron-beam (EB)
resist pattern is first reversed by a plasma-robust material, with which as a mask, the Cr is then etched to form
a hard mask for the mold etching. By this process, we have realized a quartz mold with patterns of 16nm in
half pitch at minimum.
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