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公开(公告)号:US20230375921A1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-23
申请号:US18365749
申请日:2023-08-04
Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Pei-Cheng HSU , Ping-Hsun LIN , Ta-Cheng LIEN , Hsin-Chang LEE
IPC: G03F7/004 , H01L21/033
CPC classification number: G03F7/0042 , H01L21/0332 , H01L21/0337
Abstract: An extreme ultraviolet mask including a substrate, a reflective multilayer stack on the substrate and a multi-layer patterned absorber layer on the reflective multilayer stack is provided. Disclosed embodiments include an absorber layer that includes an alloy comprising ruthenium (Ru), chromium (Cr), platinum (Pt), gold (Au), iridium (Ir), titanium (Ti), niobium (Nb), rhodium (Rh), molybdenum (Mo), tungsten (W) or palladium (Pd), and at least one alloying element. The at least one alloying element includes ruthenium (Ru), chromium (Cr), tantalum (Ta), platinum (Pt), gold (Au), iridium (Ir), titanium (Ti), niobium (Nb), rhodium (Rh), molybdenum (Mo), hafnium (Hf), boron (B), nitrogen (N), silicon (Si), zirconium (Zr) or vanadium (V). Other embodiments include a multi-layer patterned absorber structure with layers that include an alloy and an alloying element, where at least two of the layers of the multi-layer structure have different compositions.
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公开(公告)号:US20230161261A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-25
申请号:US17745576
申请日:2022-05-16
Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Wei-Hao LEE , Pei-Cheng HSU , Huan-Ling LEE , Ta-Cheng LIEN , Hsin-Chang LEE , Chin-Hsiang LIN
IPC: G03F7/20
CPC classification number: G03F7/70033
Abstract: Coated nanotubes and bundles of nanotubes are formed into membranes useful in optical assemblies in EUV photolithography systems. These optical assemblies are useful in methods for patterning materials on a semiconductor substrate. Such methods involve generating, in a UV lithography system, UV radiation. The UV radiation is passed through a coating layer of the optical assembly, e.g., a pellicle assembly. The UV radiation that has passed through the coating layer is passed through a matrix of individual nanotubes or matrix of nanotube bundles. UV radiation that passes through the matrix of individual nanotubes or matrix of nanotube bundles is reflected from a mask and received at a semiconductor substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20230116213A1
公开(公告)日:2023-04-13
申请号:US17745562
申请日:2022-05-16
Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Wei-Hao LEE , Pei-Cheng HSU , Hsin-Chang LEE
IPC: G03F1/24 , H01L21/033 , G03F7/20
Abstract: An extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask, includes a substrate, a reflective multilayer stack on the substrate, and a multi-layer capping feature on the reflective multilayer stack. The multi-layer capping feature includes a first capping layer including a material containing an element having a first carbon solubility and a second capping layer including a material containing an element having a second carbon solubility. The first carbon solubility being different from the second carbon solubility. In some embodiments an element of the material of the first capping layer and an element of the second capping layer have extinction coefficients for EUV having a wavelength of 13.5 nm that are different.
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公开(公告)号:US20230013260A1
公开(公告)日:2023-01-19
申请号:US17716522
申请日:2022-04-08
Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Yi-Jhih LIN , Pei-Cheng HSU , Ta-Cheng LIEN , Chia-Jen CHEN , Hsin-Chang LEE
Abstract: A method for lithographically patterning a photoresist is provided. The method includes receiving a wafer with the photoresist and exposing the photoresist using an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation reflected by an EUV mask. The EUV mask includes a substrate, a reflective multilayer stack on the substrate, a capping layer on the reflective multilayer stack, a patterned absorber layer on the capping layer. The patterned absorber layer includes a matrix metal and an interstitial element occupying interstitial sites of the matrix metal, and a size ratio of the interstitial element to the matrix metal is from about 0.41 to about 0.59.
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公开(公告)号:US20220342292A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-27
申请号:US17481673
申请日:2021-09-22
Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Ping-Hsun LIN , Pei-Cheng HSU , Ching-Fang YU , Ta-Cheng LIEN , Chia-Jen CHEN , Hsin-Chang LEE
IPC: G03F1/24
Abstract: An extreme ultraviolet mask including a substrate, a reflective multilayer stack on the substrate and a capping layer on the reflective multilayer stack is provided. The reflective multilayer stack is treated prior to formation of the capping layer on the reflective multilayer stack. The capping layer is formed by an ion-assisted ion beam deposition or an ion-assisted sputtering process.
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公开(公告)号:US20220244634A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-04
申请号:US17390603
申请日:2021-07-30
Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Pei-Cheng HSU , Ta-Cheng LIEN , Hsin-Chang LEE
Abstract: A pellicle for protecting a photomask from contaminant particles is provided. The pellicle includes a pellicle membrane containing at least one porous film. The at least one porous film includes a network of a plurality of nanotubes. At least one nanotube of the plurality of nanotubes includes a core nanotube and a shell nanotube surrounding the core nanotube. The core nanotube includes a material different from the shell nanotube. The pellicle further includes a pellicle border attached to the pellicle membrane along a peripheral region of the pellicle membrane and a pellicle frame attached to the pellicle border.
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公开(公告)号:US20220121101A1
公开(公告)日:2022-04-21
申请号:US17347322
申请日:2021-06-14
Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Kevin TANADY , Pei-Cheng HSU , Ta-Cheng LIEN , Tzu-Yi WANG , Hsin-Chang LEE
IPC: G03F1/24 , G03F1/54 , H01L21/033
Abstract: An extreme ultraviolet mask includes a substrate, a reflective multilayer stack over the substrate, a capping layer over the reflective multilayer stack, a patterned absorber layer over a first portion of the capping layer, and a magnetic layer over a second portion of the capping layer around the first portion.
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公开(公告)号:US20210405519A1
公开(公告)日:2021-12-30
申请号:US17090825
申请日:2020-11-05
Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
Inventor: Hsin-Chang LEE , Chia-Jen CHEN , Pei-Cheng HSU , Ta-Cheng LIEN
IPC: G03F1/24 , G03F1/54 , H01L21/033 , H01L21/027
Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a reflective mask, a photo resist layer is formed over a mask blank. The mask blank includes a substrate, a reflective multilayer on the substrate, a capping layer on the reflective multilayer, an absorber layer on the capping layer and a hard mask layer, and the absorber layer is made of Cr, CrO or CrON. The photo resist layer is patterned, the hard mask layer is patterned by using the patterned photo resist layer, the absorber layer is patterned by using the patterned hard mask layer, and an additional element is introduced into the patterned absorber layer to form a converted absorber layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20210223679A1
公开(公告)日:2021-07-22
申请号:US16744732
申请日:2020-01-16
Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
Inventor: Pei-Cheng HSU , Ching-Huang CHEN , Hung-Yi TSAI , Ming-Wei CHEN , Ta-Cheng LIEN , Hsin-Chang LEE
Abstract: A reflective mask includes a substrate, a reflective multilayer disposed on the substrate, a capping layer disposed on the reflective multilayer, and an absorber layer disposed on the capping layer. The absorber layer includes one or more alternating pairs of a first Cr based layer and a second Cr based layer different from the first Cr based layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20210223678A1
公开(公告)日:2021-07-22
申请号:US16746640
申请日:2020-01-17
Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
Inventor: Pei-Cheng HSU , Ta-Cheng LIEN , Hsin-Chang LEE
IPC: G03F1/22
Abstract: An extreme ultra-violet (EUV) mask and method for fabricating the same is disclosed. For example, the EUV mask includes a substrate, a multi-layered mirror layer formed on the substrate, a metal capping layer formed on the multi-layered mirror layer, and a multi-layered absorber layer formed on the metal capping layer. The multi-layered absorber layer includes features etched into the multi-layered absorber layer to define structures on a semiconductor device.
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