Abstract:
A method for printing a periodic pattern having a first symmetry and a first period into a photosensitive layer that includes providing a mask bearing a pattern of at least two overlapping sub-patterns which have a second symmetry and a second period, the features of each sub-pattern being formed in a transmissive material, providing a substrate bearing the layer, arranging the mask with a separation from the substrate, providing light having a central wavelength for illuminating the mask to generate a light-field in which light of the central wavelength forms a range of intensity distributions between Talbot planes, illuminating said mask pattern with said light whilst maintaining the separation or changing it by a distance whereby the photosensitive layer is exposed to an average of the range of intensity distributions, wherein the light transmitted by each sub-pattern is shifted in phase relative to that transmitted by another sub-pattern.
Abstract:
A method for printing a periodic pattern having a first symmetry and a first period into a photosensitive layer that includes providing a mask bearing a pattern of at least two overlapping sub-patterns which have a second symmetry and a second period, the features of each sub-pattern being formed in a transmissive material, providing a substrate bearing the layer, arranging the mask with a separation from the substrate, providing light having a central wavelength for illuminating the mask to generate a light-field in which light of the central wavelength forms a range of intensity distributions between Talbot planes, illuminating said mask pattern with said light whilst maintaining the separation or changing it by a distance whereby the photosensitive layer is exposed to an average of the range of intensity distributions, wherein the light transmitted by each sub-pattern is shifted in phase relative to that transmitted by another sub-pattern.
Abstract:
A method for printing a periodic pattern (19) of features into a photosensitive layer (21), which method includes providing a mask (18) bearing a mask pattern, providing a substrate (20) bearing the layer, arranging the substrate parallel to the mask, providing a number of lasers (1) having a plurality of peak wavelengths, forming from said light a beam for illuminating the mask with a spectral distribution of exposure dose and a degree of collimation, illuminating the mask with said beam such that the light of each wavelength transmitted by the mask pattern forms a range of transversal intensity distributions between Talbot planes and exposes the photosensitive layer to an image component, wherein the separation and spectral distribution are arranged so that the superposition of said components is equivalent to an average of the range of transversal intensity distributions formed by light of one wavelength and the collimation is arranged so that the features are resolved.
Abstract:
A method for printing a periodic pattern of features into a photosensitive layer, which includes providing a mask bearing a periodic pattern, providing a substrate bearing the photosensitive layer, arranging the substrate substantially parallel to the mask, forming a beam of collimated monochromatic light for illuminating said mask pattern so that the light-field transmitted by the mask forms Talbot image planes separated by a Talbot distance, and performing N sub- exposures of the mask with said beam and changing the separation between sub-exposures so that the relative separation during the ith sub-exposure with respect to that during the first sub-exposure is given by (mi + ni/N) times the Talbot distance, and exposing the mask pattern to the same energy density of illumination for each sub-exposure, wherein the period is selected in relation to the wavelength so that only the zeroth and first diffraction orders are transmitted by the mask.
Abstract translation:一种用于将特征周期性图案印刷到感光层中的方法,其包括提供带有周期性图案的掩模,提供承载感光层的基底,将基底基本上平行于掩模布置,形成准直的单色光束用于照明 所述掩模图案使得由掩模发射的光场形成由Talbot距离分开的Talbot图像平面,并且利用所述光束执行掩模的N个次曝光并且改变次曝光之间的间隔,使得在 相对于第一次曝光期间的次曝光由(mi + ni / N)倍的Talbot距离给出,并且将掩模图案暴露于相同的每次次曝光的照明能量密度,其中周期 相对于波长选择,使得仅通过掩模传输第零和第一衍射级。
Abstract:
A method for printing a desired periodic pattern, which includes providing a mask bearing a pattern of features having a period, providing a substrate bearing a photosensitive layer, arranging the substrate with a separation from the mask, generating collimated light with a wavelength and an intensity, at least the former of which may be temporally varied to deliver a spectral distribution of energy density, illuminating the mask pattern with said light whilst varying at least its wavelength so as to deliver a spectral distribution of energy density, such that the light-field transmitted by the mask is instantaneously composed of a range of transversal intensity distributions between Talbot planes, and whereby the layer is exposed to a time-integrated intensity distribution that prints the desired pattern, wherein the separation, spectral distribution and period are arranged so that the time-integrated intensity distribution corresponds to an average of the range of transversal intensity distributions.