Method for producing deep-etch, X-ray lithography masks

Details Method for producing deep-etch, X-ray lithography masks Method for producing deep-etch, X-ray lithography masks

1986-08-20

1987-10-06

Kittle, John E.

Radiation imagery chemistry: process, composition, or product th

Radiation modifying product or process of making

Radiation mask

430296, 430323, 430324, 430326, 430394, 430942, 430967, 204 15, 378 34, 378 35, G03F 900

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046982850

ABSTRACT:
A method for producing a mask for deep-etch x-ray lithography in which the mask pattern of a thin-film mask having thin absorber structures is transferred by recopying with soft X-ray radiation to an X-ray resist layer whose layer thickness corresponds to the thickness of the absorber structures of the mask to be subsequently produced. Transfer errors during recopying are avoided by producing the thin-film mask directly on one side of a carrier membrane; applying a positive X-ray resist layer on the other side of the carrier membrane; irradiating the positive X-ray resist layer with approximately parallel X-ray radiation through the thin-film mask to produce irradiated portions in the positive X-ray resist layer; removing the irradiated portions of the positive X-ray resist layer to expose portions of the carrier membrane; electrolytically depositing elements having a high atomic number, e.g., heavy metals, onto the exposed portions of the carrier membrane, removing the remaining resist material and etching away the thin-film mask.

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patent: 4401738 (1983-08-01), Iwamatsu
J. M. Moran et al, "High Resolution, Steep Profile, Resist Patterns", The Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 58, No. 5, May-Jun. 1979.

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