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- Patent Title: Pattern generators employing processors to vary delivery dose of writing beams according to photoresist thickness, and associated methods
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Application No.: US15026717Application Date: 2014-06-19
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Publication No.: US10012910B2Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Christopher Dennis Bencher
- Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Patterson + Sheridan LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2014/043223 WO 20140619
- International Announcement: WO2015/060905 WO 20150430
- Main IPC: G03B27/42
- IPC: G03B27/42 ; G03F7/20

Abstract:
Multi-beam pattern generators employing processors to vary delivered dose of writing beams according to photoresist thicknesses, and associated methods are disclosed. A pattern generator may write a pattern upon a substrate having a photoresist which is sensitive to the writing beams. The pattern may be written in respective writing cycles when the writing beams write at least a portion of the pattern at writing pixel locations. A beam actuator of the pattern generator may independently direct the writing beams to the writing pixels to deliver respective pixel doses during each writing cycle. Pixel doses delivered may be adjusted according to a thickness of the photoresist at various writing pixel locations according to one or more approaches, using one or more of: actuator dwell times, emitted pulse duration, emitted pulse frequency, and emitted pulse intensity. In this manner, additional dimensional control is provided for substrates having variable photoresist thicknesses.
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