摘要:
By using a blanking aperture array BAA, the density of the bit map data in the portions where adjacent areas are linked is decreased toward the outside. On the lower surface of the holder of the BAA chip, a ball grid array wired to blanking electrodes is formed, to be pressed in contact against pads on a wiring base board. The registered bit map data for an isosceles right triangle are read out from address A=A0+�RA.multidot.i! (A0 and i are integers, � ! is an operator for integerizing), masked, and then shifted by bits to be deformed. From registered bit map data for proximity effect correction, the area which corresponds to the size of the object of correction and the required degree of proximity affect correction is extracted, and logic operation with the bit map data of the object of correction is performed to achieve proximity affect correction. Before figures data are expanded into bit map, a checksum is determined in units of bit map data corresponding to the range of one session of scanning over which continuous exposure is possible. A sine wave voltage is provided to an electrostatic deflector and during a one-shot exposure period, an electron beam is caused to scan for an integer number of times on a block of a mask and the positional misalignment of the electron beam at the lower aperture stop is corrected.
摘要:
A stencil mask is used for exposing a pattern on a wafer using a charged particle beam which is transmitted through the stencil mask. The stencil mask is made up of a plate, and at least a block pattern region formed on the plate. The block pattern region includes apertures of arbitrary shapes for transmitting the charged particle beam which irradiates the apertures within the block pattern region in one shot of the charged particle beam. The block pattern region forms a block mask in which a pair of confronting blanking electrodes is provided with respect to at least predetermined ones of the apertures.
摘要:
In a charged particle beam exposure system, a line of individual blanking apertures (39.sub.0 to 39.sub.255) is provided to form a line of beams which are individually blanked and unblanked by applying voltages to electrodes within the blanking apertures.
摘要:
A method for depicting a pattern on a sample having a plurality of exposure areas placed on a movable stage by irradiating an electron beam. A pattern density is calculated from data of a pattern to be exposed for every exposure area on the sample. Next, the calculated pattern density is compared with a predetermined pattern density. Then when the calculated pattern density in a first exposure area contained in said exposure pattern area is less than the predetermined pattern density, the pattern is depicted therein by a continuous stage moving process. On the other hand, when the calculated pattern density in a second exposure area contained in the exposure areas is equal or greater than the predetermined pattern density, the pattern is depicted therein by a step and repeat process.
摘要:
A method for writing a pattern on an object by a charged particle beam comprises the steps of: dividing a pattern to be written on the object into a plurality of pattern blocks that cause a proximity effect with each other; determining a pattern density for each of said pattern blocks; selecting a specific pattern block as a reference pattern block; setting a dose level of exposure of the charged particle beam to a reference dose level such that the reference pattern block is exposed with a predetermined total dose level which includes the contribution of the exposure by the charged particle beam and the contribution of the exposure by the backscattered charged particles; exposing the plurality of pattern blocks including the reference pattern block by the charged particle beam with the reference dose level; and exposing those pattern blocks that have the pattern density smaller than the pattern density of the reference pattern block by a defocused charged particle beam with a total dose level set such that the total dose level for those pattern blocks is substantially identical with the total dose level of the reference pattern block.
摘要:
In a charged particle beam exposure apparatus in which a charged particle beam is projected onto a member to be exposed to thereby form a pattern thereon, there are provided a plurality of electrodes disposed around an optical axis of the charged particle beam, a first unit for introducing a gas containing oxygen as a main component into an inside of the charged particle beam exposure apparatus including the plurality of electrodes and for holding the inside of the apparatus at a degree of vacuum between 0.1 Torr and 4 Torr, and a second unit for selectively applying either a high-frequency signal having a frequency between 100 kHz and 800 kHz or a reference signal to each of the plurality of electrodes. A plasma radical state of the gas is generated in the inside of the apparatus so that a deposition present in the apparatus can be eliminated.
摘要:
A blanking aperture array for use in a charged particle beam exposure has a substrate, at least m rows by n columns of apertures arranged two-dimensionally in the substrate, where each of the apertures have a pair of blanking electrodes and m and n are integers greater than one, and n m-bit shift registers provided on the substrate for applying voltages dependent on pattern data to m pairs of the blanking electrodes of the apertures in the ith column, where i=1, 2, . . . , n. The pattern data is related to a pattern which is to be exposed using the blanking aperture array.
摘要:
A charged particle beam mask and apparatus and method of using the same employing a mask that includes a substrate and a plurality of substantially rectangular beam passing sections arranged in parallel and to have a trapezoidal shape. In addition, the masks having a matrix of irradiation areas formed thereon where each irradiation area has a matrix of block patterns, are aligned and selectively irradiated to form a desired pattern on an object.
摘要:
A blanking aperture array for use in a charged particle beam exposure has a substrate, at least m rows by n columns of apertures arranged two-dimensionally in the substrate, where each of the apertures have a pair of blanking electrodes and m and n are integers greater than one, and n m-bit shift registers provided on the substrate for applying voltages dependent on pattern data to m pairs of the blanking electrodes of the apertures in the ith column, where i=1, 2, . . . , n. The pattern data is relates to a pattern which is to be exposed using the blanking aperture array.
摘要:
In a semiconductor device having a leveling metal layer for forming a flat surface on an alignment mark of a level-difference, charged particles are irradiated and scanned onto a region of the alignment mark, and information generated from the region of the alignment mark in accordance with the thickness of metal of a metal leveling-layer in the level-difference of the alignment mark is detected. Therefore, even when the alignment mark formed by the level-difference in the semiconductor device is buried under the leveling metal layer, the alignment mark can be detected exactly without adding excessive processes.