Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of fabricating integrated circuit using alternating phase-shift mask and phase-shift trim mask
- Patent Title (中): 使用交变相移掩模和相移修剪掩模制作集成电路的方法
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Application No.: US12906861Application Date: 2010-10-18
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Publication No.: US08475976B2Publication Date: 2013-07-02
- Inventor: Thomas J. Aton
- Applicant: Thomas J. Aton
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Alan A. R. Cooper; Wade J. Brady, III; Frederick J. Telecky, Jr.
- Main IPC: G03F1/00
- IPC: G03F1/00 ; H01L21/02

Abstract:
An integrated circuit is fabricated using photolithography by selectively exposing a photoresist layer to pattern a coarse line region of a wafer layer using a trim mask, and to pattern a fine line region of the wafer layer using an alternating phase-shift mask. The trim mask includes transparent, attenuated phase-shift and opaque regions. The phase-shifted attenuated light region patterns the coarse line region and the opaque region keeps light from exposing the fine line region. The alternating phase-shift mask patterns only the fine line region and includes one or more alternating phase-shift regions that each overlaps at least a portion of the opaque region but does not overlap the attenuated phase-shift region. The alternating phase-shift mask may be used to pattern the trim mask.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110033785A1 METHOD OF FABRICATING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT USING ALTERNATING PHASE-SHIFT MASK AND PHASE-SHIFT TRIM MASK Public/Granted day:2011-02-10
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