Stability and electronic adjustment of ion images projected at 10×reduction

Autor: M. Torkler, L.‐M. Buchmann, W. H. Brünger
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures. 10:2829
ISSN: 0734-211X
DOI: 10.1116/1.585967
Popis: An ion projection system was tested to demonstrate the long‐term stability of lithographic properties. By exposing a resist to He+ ions, the pattern from an open stencil mask was transferred by a surface imaging process into the resist. Even after 12 min exposure the resolution capability still gave patterns of a minimum linewidth of 150 nm. Shifts of the pattern with high accuracy and reproducibility were performed by an octopole deflection unit. A projection mode, which consists of multiple exposures each with a different pattern displacement, was established by activating electric dipole fields. A deflection factor of 3.3 μm/V was obtained. Inducing a quadrupole field, changes in demagnification of opposite signs in x and for y directions (anamorphism) were generated which can be used to compensate for different types of distortion. A relative compression as well as expansion factor of 1.7×10−4 V−1 was determined. Simple two‐dimensional simulation of quadrupole induced pattern displacements were carried out and compared with experiments.
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