X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices – Specific application – Lithography
Patent
1978-11-20
1983-06-14
Smith, Alfred E.
X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices
Specific application
Lithography
378 14D, 378143, 430967, G03B 4116
Patent
active
043887287
ABSTRACT:
A soft X-ray lithography system including an X-ray tube having an evacuated and sealed-off envelope provided with an X-ray transparent window made of beryllium material and enclosing a rotatable anode target made of graphite material, the target having an annular sloped surface carrying a focal track layer made of titanium carbide material and having a focal spot area aligned with an electron emitting cathode to generate characteristic titanium K alpha X-rays which pass in a beam through the window, a mask aligned with the window and having transparent portions which transmit the beamed X-rays, and a workpiece, such as a semiconductor wafer, for example, having a surface coated with a photoresist film disposed in alignment with the mask to have selected portions of the film irradiated by the X-rays transmitted through the transparent portions of the mask.
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Grigsby T. N.
Meaney John T.
Pannone Joseph D.
Smith Alfred E.
The Machlett Laboratories, Incorporated
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