Advanced Image Placement Performance for the Current EPL Masks

Hideyuki Eguchi; Hiroshi Sugimura; Kaoru Koike; Hiroshi Sakaue; Hiroshi Arimoto; Kentaro Ogawa; Takashi Susa; Shinji Kunitani; Toshiaki Kurosu; Takashi Yoshii; Kojiro Itoh; Akira Tamura

doi:10.1117/12.655423

23 March 2006 Advanced image placement performance for the current EPL masks

Hideyuki Eguchi, Hiroshi Sugimura, Kaoru Koike, Hiroshi Sakaue, Hiroshi Arimoto, Kentaro Ogawa, Takashi Susa, Shinji Kunitani, Toshiaki Kurosu, Takashi Yoshii, Kojiro Itoh, Akira Tamura

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Proceedings Volume 6151, Emerging Lithographic Technologies X; 61511G (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.655423
Event: SPIE 31st International Symposium on Advanced Lithography, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We examined two EPL mask fabrication processes to control precisely image placement (IP) on the EPL masks. One is a wafer process using an electrostatic chuck during an e-beam write and another is a membrane process using a mechanical chuck during the e-beam write. In the wafer process, the global IP is corrected during the e-beam write on the basis of the IP data taken with x-y metrology tool. In the membrane process, the global IP is corrected during the e-beam write on the basis of the data taken with the x-y metrology tool and taken in situ with the e-beam writer. The resist and final global IP (3s) of the wafer process is 7.2 nm and 10.6 nm. For the average local IP errors (3s), the local IP of 5.7 nm at the resist step increases to 14.7 nm at the final step due to process-induced distortions. The local IP could be reduced to 6.0 nm by applying the constant scale value to the mask process. In the membrane process, the resist and final global IP (3s) is 15.3 nm and 17.1 nm. With more detectable alignment marks, it would be possible to improve the global IP. For the average local IP errors (3s) of the membrane process, the average resist and final local IP are 6.7 and 7.1 nm which shows no PID. The two approaches proved to control IP more accurately than the conventional one.

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Hideyuki Eguchi, Hiroshi Sugimura, Kaoru Koike, Hiroshi Sakaue, Hiroshi Arimoto, Kentaro Ogawa, Takashi Susa, Shinji Kunitani, Toshiaki Kurosu, Takashi Yoshii, Kojiro Itoh, and Akira Tamura "Advanced image placement performance for the current EPL masks", Proc. SPIE 6151, Emerging Lithographic Technologies X, 61511G (23 March 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.655423

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Photomasks

Semiconducting wafers

Metrology

Photoresist processing

Mask making

Optical alignment

Image processing

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