摘要:
Provided is a mask blank surface treatment method for surface-treating, using a treatment liquid, a surface of a thin film, to be formed into a transfer pattern, of a mask blank having the thin film on a substrate. The thin film is made of a material that can be etched by ion-based dry etching. The concentration of an etching inhibitor contained in the treatment liquid is 0.3 ppb or less.
摘要:
A thin film composed of a material containing a metal and silicon is formed on a transparent substrate, and a thin film pattern is formed by patterning the thin film. Then, the main surface and the side walls of the thin film pattern are previously modified so as to prevent the transfer characteristics of the thin film pattern from changing more than predetermined even in the case where exposure light with a wavelength of 200 nm or less is cumulatively applied onto the thin film pattern which has been formed. The main surface and the side walls are modified by, for instance, performing heat treatment to the main surface and the side walls at 450-900° C. in the atmosphere containing oxygen.
摘要:
According to certain embodiments, a mask blank for an electron beam writing is provided, capable of forming a resist pattern of a 3-dimensional topology through an one-time writing. The mask blank includes a substrate, a thin film formed on the substrate, and an electron beam resist film formed on the thin film. The electron beam resist film is made of a laminated film including at least a lower resist film and an upper resist film. The lower resist film and the upper resist film have different resist sensitivities with respect to an electron beam.
摘要:
A washing apparatus is provided with a washing tub 2 whose rotating axis is in a horizontal direction or in a horizontally inclined direction, and has a concave and convex curve surface 22 installed on an inside wall surface of the washing tub 2 as well as has a baffle 25 protruding in the direction of the rotating axis installed. Then, by rotating the washing tub with a level of a cleaning liquid to be supplied to the washing tub 2 set to be higher than the rotating axis, a spurious non-gravity wash method is adopted in which damage to a washing article is small. In addition, by rotating the washing tub 2 with the level of the cleaning liquid to be supplied to the washing tub 2 set to be lower than the rotating axis, a beat wash method in which water saving effect is high is adopted.
摘要:
A photomask blank is for fabricating a phase shift mask having a light-transmissive substrate provided with a phase shift part adapted to give a predetermined phase difference to transmitted exposure light. The phase shift part is a dug-down part formed by digging down the light-transmissive substrate from a surface thereof to a digging depth adapted to produce the predetermined phase difference with respect to exposure light transmitted through the light-transmissive substrate at a portion where the phase shift part is not provided. The photomask blank includes a light-shielding part formed in a peripheral area around a transfer pattern area of the surface of the light-transmissive substrate and adapted to shield exposure light and further includes an etching mask film formed in the transfer pattern area of the surface of the light-transmissive substrate and made of a material being substantially dry-etchable with a chlorine-based gas, but not substantially dry-etchable with a fluorine-based gas, the etching mask film serving as an etching mask at least until the digging depth is reached when forming the dug-down part.
摘要:
To provide a mask blank which can eliminate pattern defects by preventing a resist pattern from disappearing at the time of manufacturing a transfer mask in semiconductor design rule (DRAM hp65 nm or below), and to provide a mask.A mask blank including a thin film for forming a mask pattern, the thin film being formed on a substrate, and a resist film formed over the thin film, wherein the thin film and the resist film sandwich an adhesion layer that is bonded to the thin film and the resist film, and the adhesion layer prevents, during development of the resist film in patterning of the resist film, collapse of the patterned resist film.
摘要:
The present invention is a method of manufacturing a transfer mask with use of a mask blank in which a thin film for pattern formation and a chromium-based thin film made of a material containing chromium are stacked on a transparent substrate in this order. The thin film for pattern formation is made of material containing silicon and a transition metal other than chromium. The chromium-based thin film is made of a material containing chromium. Exposure light having a wavelength of 200 nm or less is applied to the transfer mask. In the manufacturing method, the transfer mask is produced by performing, in the following order, a process of forming a resist film having a transfer pattern on the chromium-based thin film, a process of forming a transfer pattern in the chromium-based thin film with use of a mask of the resist film having the transfer pattern, a process of forming a transfer pattern in the thin film for pattern formation with use of a mask of the chromium-based thin film having the transfer pattern, and a process of removing the chromium-based thin film by etching. The manufacturing method further includes a cleaning process of at least one of alkali solution cleaning, hot water cleaning, and ozone-containing water cleaning on the produced transfer mask until a width of the transfer pattern of the thin film for pattern formation is reduced by 4 nm or a space width of the thin film for pattern formation is increased by 4 nm.
摘要:
The mask blank is patterned to form a corresponding mask having a light shielding film pattern with enhanced resolution. A mask blank (10) on which a chemically amplified resist film (20) is formed, the mask blank (10) comprising a substrate (12), a light shielding film (13) provided on the substrate (12), and a resist underlying film (18) provided on the light shielding film (13), for suppressing the deactivation of the chemically amplified resist film (20). When the light shielding film (13) is etched using the patterned chemically amplified resist film (20) as a mask, the etching rate of the deactivation preventive film (18) is higher than the etching rate of the chemically amplified resist film (20).
摘要:
A mask blank is equipped with a thin film that forms a mask pattern formed on a substrate and a chemically amplified type resist film that is formed above the thin film. In the mask blank, a protective film that prevents movement of a substance that inhibits a chemical amplification function of the resist film from a bottom portion of the resist film to inside the resist film is provided between the thin film and the resist film. The mask blank suppresses the error of the line width dimension of the transfer pattern formed on the substrate to the design dimension of the transfer pattern line width of the transfer mask (actual dimension error) and also suppress linearity up to 10 nm.
摘要:
In a client-server system comprising a plurality of client terminal devices and a server device which transmits and receives information to and from the plurality of client terminal devices, the server device comprises an acquisition unit which obtains a priority of the client terminal device from a priority storage unit, based on a control request from the client terminal device, a determination unit which determines whether or not the control request is accepted, based on the obtained priority, and an execution unit which executes control in response to the control request when the determination unit determines that the control request is accepted.