摘要:
There is disclosed a method of producing a phase shift mask blank wherein the method includes at least a step of forming one or more layers of phase shift films on a substrate by a sputtering method, and in the step, the phase shift films are formed by the sputtering method while simultaneously discharging plural targets having different compositions. Thereby, a phase shift mask blank having a desired composition and quality, in particular, having a phase shift film with few defects can be easily produced.
摘要:
A method of detecting genes which comprises detecting gene polymorphisms in allergy-predisposition-related genes; i.e., interleukin 12 receptor IL-1 β2 chain and β1 chain genes, interleukin 18 receptor α chain gene, interferon γ receptor 1 chain gene and interleukin 12.p40 subunit gene, to thereby detect allergic predisposition. Use of the present method enables contribution to the prevention of onset of allergic diseases and to the treatment of allergic diseases.
摘要:
A susceptor having the most basic structure has a three-layer structure including a first and a second transparent quartz part and an opaque quartz part sandwiched therebetween. For example, the opaque quartz part is made of “foamed quartz”. In addition, the opacity of the opaque quartz part to flash light is determined to fall within an appropriate range based on the material or thickness of the opaque quartz part, taking into consideration the composition or thickness of a thin film formed on the substrate and various conditions concerning the energy of the irradiation light during flash light irradiation or the like. The stack structure may be composed of a stack of a plurality of opaque quartz layers having different opacities.
摘要:
A photomask blank having a film of at least one layer formed on a substrate is manufactured by forming a film on a substrate and irradiating the film with light from a flash lamp. A photomask is manufactured from the thus manufactured photomask blank by forming a patterned resist on the film on the blank by photolithography, etching away those portions of the film which are not covered with the resist, and removing the resist. The photomask blank and photomask have minimized warpage and improved chemical resistance.
摘要:
In the manufacture of a photomask blank, a seed layer of a chromium material containing oxygen, nitrogen and/or carbon is formed on a transparent substrate before a light-shielding film and an antireflective film are deposited thereon. Any film on the seed layer builds up in accordance with fine granular growth, and so the resulting photomask blank has an improved surface roughness, which enables high-sensitivity detection in the process of defect inspection and circuit pattern inspection. By lithographically patterning the photomask blank, a photomask is fabricated.
摘要:
A phase shift mask blank includes a transparent substrate and a phase shift film composed primarily of a metal and silicon. The substrate has an etch rate A and the phase shift film has an etch rate B when the blank is patterned by reactive ion etching, such that the etch selectivity B/A is at least 5.0. When a phase shift mask is manufactured from the blank, the substrate is less prone to overetching, providing good controllability and in-plane uniformity of the phase shift in patterned areas. The phase shift mask can be used to fabricate semiconductor integrated circuits to a smaller minimum feature size and a higher level of integration.
摘要:
An improvement is proposed in the method for the preparation of a magnetic recording medium by forming a magnetic recording layer of a magnetic alloy on the surface of a non-magnetic substrate plate of, e.g., silicon so as to impart the magnetic recording medium with improved CSS (contact-start-stop) characteristics still without affecting the magnetic recording density. The improvement can be obtained by subjecting the surface of the substrate plate, prior to the formation of the magnetic recording layer, to a surface-roughening treatment which is performed either by a dry-process such as plasma etching and reactive ion etching or by a wet-process of anisotropic etching by using an aqueous solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide as the anisotropic etching solution. In particular, the plasma etching or reactive ion etching is conducted in the presence of a particulate scattering source body of aluminum, etc. placed in the vicinity of the CSS zone so that the surface-roughening effect is limited to the CSS zone by the deposition of particulates scattered therefrom leaving the recording zone unroughened not to decrease the recording density.
摘要:
A photomask blank is provided comprising a transparent substrate, a single or multi-layer film including an outermost layer composed of chromium base material, and an etching mask film. The etching mask film is a silicon oxide base material film formed of a composition comprising a hydrolytic condensate of a hydrolyzable silane, a crosslink promoter, and an organic solvent and having a thickness of 1-10 nm. The etching mask film has high resistance to chlorine dry etching, ensuring high-accuracy processing of the photomask blank.
摘要:
A photomask blank having a film on a substrate is inspected by (A) measuring a surface topography of a photomask blank having a film to be inspected for stress, (B) removing the film from the photomask blank to provide a treated substrate, (C) measuring a surface topography of the treated substrate, and (D) comparing the surface topography of the photomask blank with the surface topography of the treated substrate, thereby evaluating a stress in the film.
摘要:
A photomask is manufactured by providing a photomask blank comprising a transparent substrate, a phase shift film, and a light-shielding film, the phase shift film and the light-shielding film including silicon base material layers, a N+O content in the silicon base material layer of the phase shift film differing from that of the light-shielding film, and chlorine dry etching the blank with oxygen-containing chlorine gas in a selected O/Cl ratio for selectively etching away the silicon base material layer of the light-shielding film.