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- Patent Title: Pitch reduced patterns relative to photolithography features
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Application No.: US11669840Application Date: 2007-01-31
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Publication No.: US08207576B2Publication Date: 2012-06-26
- Inventor: Luan Tran , William T Rericha , John Lee , Ramakanth Alapati , Sheron Honarkhah , Shuang Meng , Puneet Sharma , Jingyi Bai , Zhiping Yin , Paul Morgan , Mirzafer K Abatchev , Gurtej S Sandhu , D. Mark Durcan
- Applicant: Luan Tran , William T Rericha , John Lee , Ramakanth Alapati , Sheron Honarkhah , Shuang Meng , Puneet Sharma , Jingyi Bai , Zhiping Yin , Paul Morgan , Mirzafer K Abatchev , Gurtej S Sandhu , D. Mark Durcan
- Applicant Address: US NY Mt. Kisco
- Assignee: Round Rock Research, LLC
- Current Assignee: Round Rock Research, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Mt. Kisco
- Agency: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP
- Main IPC: H01L29/66
- IPC: H01L29/66 ; H01L21/00 ; G03F7/00

Abstract:
Differently-sized features of an integrated circuit are formed by etching a substrate using a mask which is formed by combining two separately formed patterns. Pitch multiplication is used to form the relatively small features of the first pattern and conventional photolithography used to form the relatively large features of the second pattern. Pitch multiplication is accomplished by patterning a photoresist and then etching that pattern into an amorphous carbon layer. Sidewall spacers are then formed on the sidewalls of the amorphous carbon. The amorphous carbon is removed, leaving behind the sidewall spacers, which define the first mask pattern. A bottom anti-reflective coating (BARC) is then deposited around the spacers to form a planar surface and a photoresist layer is formed over the BARC. The photoresist is next patterned by conventional photolithography to form the second pattern, which is then is transferred to the BARC. The combined pattern made out by the first pattern and the second pattern is transferred to an underlying amorphous silicon layer and the pattern is subjected to a carbon strip to remove BARC and photoresist material. The combined pattern is then transferred to the silicon oxide layer and then to an amorphous carbon mask layer. The combined mask pattern, having features of difference sizes, is then etched into the underlying substrate through the amorphous carbon hard mask layer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070138526A1 PITCH REDUCED PATTERNS RELATIVE TO PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY FEATURES Public/Granted day:2007-06-21
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