GAS RELEASING UNDERLAYERS FOR PHOTOPATTERNABLE ORGANOMETALLIC RESIST

    公开(公告)号:US20240319599A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-26

    申请号:US18125934

    申请日:2023-03-24

    CPC classification number: G03F7/11 C09D7/63 C09D183/16

    Abstract: Gas releasing compositions that can facilitate improved patterning of organometallic resists are described. The gas releasing compositions can release water, carbon dioxide, or alcohols in response to radiation or heating. A film-forming composition is composed of a flowable blend of a reactive gas releasing moiety, a matrix forming species, an organic solvent, and an optional activating agent. An underlayer composition is composed of a blend of a reactive gas releasing moiety, a polymer matrix and an optional activating additive. Multilayer structures are described based on organometallic radiation sensitive patterning compositions, such as alkyl tin oxo-hydroxo compositions, which are placed over a gas releasing underlayer formed on a substrate, such as a semiconductor wafer. Methods for patterning multilayer structures are also described.

    Organometallic radiation patternable coatings with low defectivity and corresponding methods

    公开(公告)号:US12072626B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-27

    申请号:US17180500

    申请日:2021-02-19

    CPC classification number: G03F7/0042 G03F7/162 G03F7/168

    Abstract: In the context of forming radiation patternable structures especially for EUV patterning, wafer structures are described comprising a substrate having a smooth top surface and a radiation sensitive organometallic coating having an average thickness of no more than 100 nm and no more than about 1 defect per square centimeter with a defect size of greater than 48 nm, evaluated with a 3 mm edge exclusion. Corresponding methods for forming a low defect coating comprise spin coating a purified radiation sensitive organometallic resist solution onto a wafer using a spin coater system comprising a delivery line and a delivery nozzle connected to the delivery line to form a coated wafer, and drying the coated wafer to form a radiation sensitive organometallic coating having no more than about 1 defect per square centimeter with a defect size of greater than 48 nm, evaluated with a 3 mm edge exclusion. Methods are provided for improved filtering for particle removal from radiation patternable organometallic resist compositions.

    HIGH RESOLUTION LATENT IMAGE PROCESSING, CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT AND THERMAL DEVELOPMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20230100995A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US17950685

    申请日:2022-09-22

    Abstract: Patterning of organometallic radiation sensitive compositions is facilitated using a gaseous form of a contrast enhancing agent, which can include a carboxylic acid, an amide, a sulfonic acid, an alcohol, a diol, a silyl halide, a germanium halide, a tin halide, an amine, a thiol, or a mixture thereof, in which the mixture can be of the same class or different class of compounds. Contact with the contrast enhancing reactive compound is provided after irradiation of the organometallic composition to form a latent image. The contrast enhancing agent can be delivered before or after physical pattern development, and processing with the contrast enhancing agent can involve removal in a thermal process of some or substantially all of the non-irradiated organometallic composition. The contrast enhancing agent can be used in a dry thermal development step. If the contrast enhancing agent is used after a distinct development step, use of the contrast enhancing agent can involve improvement of the pattern quality. Apparatuses for performing processing with contrast enhancing agents are described.

    ORGANOMETALLIC RADIATION PATTERNABLE COATINGS WITH LOW DEFECTIVITY AND CORRESPONDING METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20220269169A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-25

    申请号:US17180500

    申请日:2021-02-19

    Abstract: In the context of forming radiation patternable structures especially for EUV patterning, wafer structures are described comprising a substrate having a smooth top surface and a radiation sensitive organometallic coating having an average thickness of no more than 100 nm and no more than about 1 defect per square centimeter with a defect size of greater than 48 nm, evaluated with a 3 mm edge exclusion. Corresponding methods for forming a low defect coating comprise spin coating a purified radiation sensitive organometallic resist solution onto a wafer using a spin coater system comprising a delivery line and a delivery nozzle connected to the delivery line to form a coated wafer, and drying the coated wafer to form a radiation sensitive organometallic coating having no more than about 1 defect per square centimeter with a defect size of greater than 48 nm, evaluated with a 3 mm edge exclusion. Methods are provided for improved filtering for particle removal from radiation patternable organometallic resist compositions.

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