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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/HKH.2007.18.1.074

Application of Transmittance-Controlled Photomask Technology to ArF Lithography  

Lee, Dong-Gun (Samsung Electronics Co., LTD.)
Park, Jong-Rak (Department of Photonic Engineeringt, Chosun University)
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Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics / v.18, no.1, 2007 , pp. 74-78 More about this Journal
Abstract
We report theoretical and experimental results for application of transmittance-controlled photomask technology to ArF lithography. The transmittance-controlled photomask technology is thought to be a promising technique fo critical dimension (CD) uniformity correction on a wafer by use of phase patterns on the backside of a photomask. We could theoretically reproduce experimental results for illumination intensity drop with respect to the variation of backside phase patterns by considering light propagation from the backside to the front side of a photomask at the ArF lithography wavelength. We applied the transmittance-controlled photomask technology to ArF lithography for a critical layer of DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) having a 110-nm design rule and found that the in-field CD uniformity value was improved from 13.8 nm to 9.7 nm in $3{\sigma}$.
Keywords
ArF lithography; Photomask; Transmittance controlled mask; Critical dimension uniformity;
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