Radiation imagery chemistry: process – composition – or product th – Radiation modifying product or process of making – Radiation mask
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-19
2006-12-19
Rosasco, S. (Department: 1756)
Radiation imagery chemistry: process, composition, or product th
Radiation modifying product or process of making
Radiation mask
C430S394000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07150946
ABSTRACT:
A method for repairing defects in a photolithographic mask for use in patterning semiconductor wafers introduces a pre-selected phase error selected to sum with a phase error of a defect repair material, yielding a desired composite phase error relative to light passing through the substrate alone, e.g., 180°. Substrate phase error may be introduced by modifying its thickness. For example, after any opaque layer material within a repair zone surrounding the defect is removed, the substrate, too, is removed within the repair zone to a pre-selected depth, forming a lacuna. Repair material is then deposited in the lacuna and in the remainder of the repair zone to a level substantially equal to the top surface of the opaque layer, yielding a desired, combined phase error and attenuation matching those of defect free regions of the mask where the opaque layer has not been removed.
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Carpi Enio L.
Schulze Steffen F.
Rosasco S.
Slater & Matsil L.L.P.
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