Radiation imagery chemistry: process – composition – or product th – Imaging affecting physical property of radiation sensitive... – Making electrical device
Patent
1992-11-25
1994-07-12
Kight, III, John
Radiation imagery chemistry: process, composition, or product th
Imaging affecting physical property of radiation sensitive...
Making electrical device
430311, 430314, 430317, 430322, 430323, 430329, 430331, G03C 500
Patent
active
053288106
ABSTRACT:
The process starts with a primary mask, which may be characterized as a pattern of parallel, photoresist strips having substantially vertical edges, each having a minimum feature width F, and being separated from neighboring strips by a minimum space width which is also approximately equal to F. From this primary mask, a set of expendable mandrel strips is created either directly or indirectly. The set of mandrel strips may be characterized as a pattern of parallel strips, each having a feature width of F/2, and with neighboring strips being spaced from one another by a space width equal to 3/2F. A conformal stringer layer is then deposited. The stringer layer material is selected such that it may be etched with a high degree of selectivity with regard to both the mandrel strips and an underlying layer which will ultimately be patterned using a resultant, reduced-pitch mask. The stringer layer is then anisotropically etched to the point where the top of each mandrel strip is exposed. The mandrel strips are then removed with an appropriate etch. A pattern of stringer strips remains which can then be used as a half-pitch mask to pattern the underlying layer. This process may also be repeated, starting with the half-pitch mask and creating a quarter-pitch mask, etc. As can be seen, this technique permits a reduction in the minimum pitch of the primary mask by a factor of 2.sup.-N (where N is an integer 1, 2, 3, . . . ).
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Cathey David A.
Chance Randal W.
Lowrey Tyler A.
Fox III Angus C.
Kight III John
Micro)n Technology, Inc.
Mosley T.
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