DEFECT REDUCTION IN A SUBSTRATE TREATMENT METHOD
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    发明公开
    DEFECT REDUCTION IN A SUBSTRATE TREATMENT METHOD 审中-公开
    减少缺陷的基板处理方法

    公开(公告)号:EP2959502A4

    公开(公告)日:2016-11-09

    申请号:EP14753831

    申请日:2014-02-25

    申请人: EXOGENESIS CORP

    IPC分类号: H01L21/306 G03F1/82 H01L21/02

    摘要: A method for treating a substrate surface uses Neutral Beam irradiation derived from a gas-cluster ion-beam and articles produced thereby including lithography photomask substrates. One embodiment provides a method of treating a surface of a substrate that contains one or more embedded particles or contains sub-surface damage, comprising the steps of: providing a reduced pressure chamber; forming a gas-cluster ion-beam comprising gas-cluster ions within the reduced pressure chamber; accelerating the gas-cluster ions to form an accelerated gas-cluster ion-beam along a beam path within the reduced pressure chamber; promoting fragmentation and/or dissociation of at least a portion of the accelerated gas-cluster ions along the beam path; removing charged particles from the beam path to form an accelerated neutral beam along the beam path in the reduced pressure chamber; holding the surface in the beam path; and treating at least a portion of the surface of the substrate by irradiation.