Radiation imagery chemistry: process – composition – or product th – Diazo reproduction – process – composition – or product – Composition or product which contains radiation sensitive...
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-22
2008-04-22
Chu, John S. (Department: 1752)
Radiation imagery chemistry: process, composition, or product th
Diazo reproduction, process, composition, or product
Composition or product which contains radiation sensitive...
C430S169000, C430S190000, C430S270100, C430S325000, C430S326000, C430S512000, C430S514000, C430S944000
Reexamination Certificate
active
09256034
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed are multilayered resist structures including bilayer and top surface imaging which utilize tuned underlayers functioning as ARCs, planarizing layers, and etch resistant hard masks whose properties such as optical, chemical and physical properties are tailored to give a multilayer resist structure exhibiting high resolution, residue free lithography and methods of preparing these materials. These underlayer films include the group consisting of novolac based resists whose processing conditions are controlled, polyarylsulfones such as the BARL material, polyhydroxystyrene based derivatives, an example being a copolymer of polyhydroxystyrene and polyhydroxystyrene reacted with anthracenemethanol that contains a cross-linker, and acid catalyst (thermal acid generator), polyimides, polyethers in particular polyarylene ethers, polyarylenesulfides, polycarbonates such as polyarylenecarbonates, epoxies, epoxyacrylates, polyarylenes such as polyphenylenes, polyarylenevinylenes such as polyphenylenevinylenes, polyvinylcarbazole, cyclicolefins, and polyesters. Such films have index of refraction and extinction coefficient tunable from about 1.4 to about 2.1 and from about 0.1 to about 0.6 at UV and DUV wavelengths, in particular 365, 248, 193 and 157 nm and EUV. Moreover, underlayer films produced in the present invention do not interact with the resist limiting interfacial mixing and contamination of resist by an outgassing product. The bilayer and TSI resist structures can be used for 248, 193, 157, EUV, x-ray, e-beam, and ion beam technology.
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Angelopoulos Marie
Babich Katherina E.
LaTulipe Douglas Charles
Lin Qinghuang
Medeiros David R.
Berk Thomas A.
Chu John S.
Morris Daniel P.
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