Resistless EUV lithography: photon-induced oxide patterning on silicon

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العنوان: Resistless EUV lithography: photon-induced oxide patterning on silicon
المؤلفون: Tseng, Li-Ting, Karadan, Prajith, Kazazis, Dimitrios, Constantinou, Procopios C., Stock, Taylor J. Z., Curson, Neil J., Schofield, Steven R., Muntwiler, Matthias, Aeppli, Gabriel, Ekinci, Yasin
المصدر: L.-T. Tseng, Science Advances, Vol 9, eadf5997 (2023)
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Applied Physics, Condensed Matter - Materials Science
الوصف: In this work, we show the feasibility of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) patterning on an HF-treated Si(100) surface in the absence of a photoresist. EUV lithography is the leading lithography technique in semiconductor manufacturing due to its high resolution and throughput, but future progress in resolution can be hampered because of the inherent limitations of the resists. We show that EUV photons can induce surface reactions on a partially H-terminated Si surface and assist the growth of an oxide layer, which serves as an etch mask. This mechanism is different from the H-desorption in scanning tunneling microscopy-based lithography. We achieve SiO2/Si gratings with 75 nm half-pitch and 31 nm height, demonstrating the efficacy of the method and the feasibility of patterning with EUV lithography without the use of a photoresist. Further development of the resistless EUV lithography method can be a viable approach to nm-scale lithography by overcoming the inherent resolution and roughness limitations of photoresist materials.
Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf5997
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01268
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2310.01268
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv