摘要:
A mask structure for X-ray exposure comprises a retaining frame, a supporting frame, a mask support and an absorber pattern. The mask structure possesses a function for detecting a state change of the mask structure from its steady state.
摘要:
An X-ray transmitting window for use in X-ray lithography, for allowing transmission therethrough of X-rays from a vacuum ambience to a different ambience, includes an X-ray transmitting film, and a gasket material gas-tightly provided on at least one of opposite surfaces in a peripheral portion of the X-ray transmitting film. The gasket material has a Brinell hardness smaller than that of the X-ray transmitting film. The formed X-ray transmitting window is able to be sandwiched and fastened between a pair of flanges in a gas-tight manner.
摘要:
An X-ray exposure apparatus for exposing a resist on a substrate to a pattern of an original includes a radiation source for providing X-rays; and an illumination system for irradiating the original and the substrate with the X-rays such that the resist of the substrate is exposed to the pattern of the original with the X-rays; wherein the illumination system has a convex mirror having a reflection surface of a shape like a cylindrical surface, for reflecting the X-rays from the radiation source to the original; and wherein the reflection surface of the mirror has such an aspherical surface shape that, with respect to a top of the reflection surface, a radiation source side and an original side are asymmetrical in shape, that, in the neighborood of the top, the radiation source side has a radius of curvature smaller than that of the original side, and that at a peripheral potion the reflection surface has a curvature of a radius larger than that at the top of the reflection surface.
摘要:
An X-ray mask support comprises a support frame and a support film, wherein both of the support frame and the support film have a thermal expansion coefficient of not more than 1.times.10.sup.-5 K.sup.-1 or wherein the thermal expansion coefficient of the support film does not exceed that of the support flame or wherein both the support frame and the support film have a thermal expansion coefficient of not more than 1.times.10.sup.-5 K.sup.-1 and the support film has a surface roughness at least on the mask surface, of not more than 10 nm r.m.s. Basically a process for preparing the X-ray support film comprises the steps of forming a film on a substrate and sintering the film.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus including: a paper feed cassette; a paper pickup roller; an image forming portion; a fixing unit; a paper discharge portion for discharging paper P with a developer image fused and fixed thereon; and an inversion roller and a paper discharge drive roller for conveying paper P along a paper conveyance path, and is constructed such that guide ribs are provided for a curved portion in a main conveyance path and the first and second curved portions of a sub conveyance path are provided in shapes that will not cause concentration of stress acting on the paper P in abutment.
摘要:
A method of making an X-ray mask structure having an X-ray absorber in a desired pattern on the surface of a support film held by a frame. The method includes a step of patterning the X-ray absorber, including a drawing step that utilizes charged particles, and a step of thereafter providing the frame with a magnetic member. The frame and the support film each include a non-magnetic material.
摘要:
An exposure method using X-rays from a synchrotron radiation source includes determining a relationship between an X-ray intensity distribution and an exposure amount distribution in an exposure area; and effecting exposure operation while controlling a dose amount for respective positions in the exposure area using the relationship, wherein the dose amount is controlled by changing a driving profile of a movable shutter for controlling the exposure operation, and wherein the relationship is in the form of a proportional coefficient between an X-ray intensity and the exposure amount as a function of position information in the exposure area.
摘要:
An X-ray mask structure includes a mask substrate having a pattern; a supporting frame for carrying and supporting the mask substrate; and an adhesive material for fixing the mask substrate to the supporting frame; wherein a stress releasing groove is formed in at least one of the mask substrate and the supporting frame.
摘要:
Provided are an X-ray mask support member, an X-ray mask, and an X-ray exposure process using the X-ray mask, that can effectively prevent the phenomenon of electrostatic attraction or contact of X-ray masks by appropriately disposing an X-ray mask support membrane in an exposure apparatus that employs soft X-rays. A high precision alignment can be performed.
摘要:
A process for preparing an X-ray mask structure comprises an X-ray transmissive film, an X-ray absorptive member held on the X-ray transmissive film and supporting frame for supporting the X-ray transmissive film. The X-ray absorptive member is constituted of crystalline grains having a grain boundary size of 1 .mu.m or larger, or has a density of 90% or more relative to the density of the bulk material.