Method and apparatus for generating high-resolution images

Radiation imagery chemistry: process – composition – or product th – Imaging affecting physical property of radiation sensitive... – Forming nonplanar surface

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ABSTRACT:
The exposure component (10) of a photo-etching system for a semiconductor wafer (28) includes a laser (12) that shines coherent light through an expansion lens (14) and then a contraction lens (16) to supply a spherically convergent beam of light through a lensless-Fourier-transform hologram (22) and onto the semiconductor wafer (28). The wafer (28) is located tangent to a hemisphere centered on the hologram (22) that has the focal point (26) of the convergent spherical beam at the middle of its curved surface. This forms a reduced version of the source image from which the hologram (22) was formed and achieves feature sizes significantly smaller than those attainable with conventional mask-type systems employing light of the same wavelength.

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Stroke et al., "Three-Dimensional Holography with `Lensless` Fourier-Transform Holograms and Coarse P/N Polaroid Film", J. Opt. Soc. Am. tt, 1327 (1965), pp. 1327-1328.
George W. Stroke, "Lensless Fourier-Transform Method for Optical Holography", Applied Physics Letter, vol. 6, No. 10, May 15, 1965, pp. 201-203.

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