Radiation imagery chemistry: process – composition – or product th – Radiation modifying product or process of making – Radiation mask
Patent
1992-01-13
1995-01-17
McCamish, Marion E.
Radiation imagery chemistry: process, composition, or product th
Radiation modifying product or process of making
Radiation mask
430311, 430320, 430321, G03F 900
Patent
active
053824830
ABSTRACT:
A phase-shifting mask with self-aligned spacers of phase-shift material adjacent to the edges of the opaque mask pattern and a method for making the same is disclosed. The method of the invention deposits a blanket layer of an appropriate phase-shift material over a transparent mask substrate having a patterned opaque layer followed by a removal step which forms the spacers. The mask is preferably comprised of a quartz substrate covered with a patterned chrome layer fabricated following the normal inspection and repair procedure. A layer of phase-shift material is then blanket deposited. The thickness and index of refraction of the phase-shift material is chosen to provide a phase-shift of 0.67 pi radians (120 degrees) to pi radians (180 degrees) in the completed mask which is the range of phase-shift demonstrated to be effective. The phase-shift layer is then blanket etched anisotropically in a Reactive Ion Etch (RIE) chamber, using the chrome and quartz as etch stops. Following the etch, the remaining phase-shift material forms a roughly quarter-cylinder cross-section shaped spacer pattern. The spacer pattern is self-aligned to the edges of the opaque mask pattern.
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Chapman Mark A.
International Business Machines - Corporation
La Baw Jeffrey S.
McCamish Marion E.
Skladony William P.
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