Abstract:
PURPOSE:To obtain a photomask preventing dust from sticking to the mask, transferring to a wafer and causing defects in an integrated element by forming an antistatic thin film on the substrate of a mask and on a light shielding pattern on the surface of the substrate. CONSTITUTION:An electrically conductive transparent thin film 4 of electrically conductive SnO2 or the like is formed on the surface of the substrate 1 of a photomask for manufacturing an integrated semiconductor element, etc. and on a light shielding pattern of a Cr film 3 or the like formed on the substrate 1. A nonchargeable thin silicon oxide film may be formed by coating an org. solvent contg. a partial hydrolyzate of SiCl4. The thickness of the antistatic thin film 4 is adjusted so as to make the transmittance >=75% at the wavelengths of a light source for transfer. Patterning can be carried out without hindering exposure. The film 4 is hardly scratched, has a flat surface, and prevents dust from sticking to the surface of the mask and transferring to a wafer.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To eliminate the decrease in the temp. on a substrate surface and the uneven temp. thereon by heating the photosensitive material layer after exposure and supplying a developer to the photosensitive material layer part. CONSTITUTION:The rate of a decrease in the temp. of a substrate 1 to be resulted from the supply of a developing soln. consisting of an org. solvent to an electron beam resist by the injection from a nozzle is 0.1 deg.C/S in the case of methyl isobutyl ketone. Therefore, if the distance between the substrate 1 provided with a photosensitive material layer and an IR lamp 7 of a heat ray source is determined at 30cm, the decrease in the temp. of the substrate 1 is compensated and the temp. of the substrate is maintained at a room temp. by using the IR lamp having 600W capacity in the case of using methyl isobutyl ketone for the developing soln. The temp. distribution can be compensated if the quantity of the heat ray absorption thereof is distributed adequately by using a filter 8. More specifically, the temp. distribution of the substrate 1 is made uniform by using such filter 8 with which the heat ray transmiting the filter 8 is strong in the central part and is weak in the peripheral part.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To permit the post-polymerization of a negative-type resist to be suspended without any need for bringing a pre-evacuation chamber to the atmospheric pressure, thereby to make it possible to reduce the number of times of required evacuating operations and the time required for evacuation and stabilize the titled apparatus correspondingly, by a method wherein when a predetermined period of time has passed after a sample is fed into a pre-evacuation chamber kept under a high vacuum, the degree of vacuum is lowered and a relatively high vaccum degree is maintained, and then the vacuum state is raised again to a high vacuum degree not lower than 10 Torr. CONSTITUTION:After a mask substrate is exposed by electron beams in a high vaccum with a vacuum degree not lower than 10 Torr, a variable leak valve 11 is attached through an electromagnetic valve 10 to a pre-evacuation chamber 2 with an autoloader. As a negative-type resist, polyglycidyl methacrylate is employed. When 30min has passed after the replacement of samples, the electromagnetic valve 10 is opened, and the variable leak valve 11 is adjusted to lower the degree of vacuum in the pre-evacuation chamber 2 to 0.01-5Torr, e.g., 0.1Torr by supplying the chamber 2 with O2 gas or a gas from an air container 12. When a predetermined period of time, e.g., one minute has passed thereafter, the electromagnetic valve 10 is closed again to place the pre-evacuation chamber 2 under a high vaccum not lower than 10 Torr. By this operation, the progress of the post-polymerization in the PGMA resist is suspended at a point of time when the vacuum degree reaches 0.1Torr when 30min has passed after the exposure. It takes only several to several tens of seconds to reproduce a high vacuum not lower than 10 Torr from this vacuum state.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To obtain smooth surface of semiconductor substrate without a high temperature heat processing by coating in the predetermined thcikness or more silicon oxide to the entire part of semiconductor substrate surface obtained by forming a thin film into the specified shape and then dry-etching such silicon oxide. CONSTITUTION:After forming the predetermined shape of polycrystalline Si on an Si substrate 1, a silicon compound film 4 is formed in the thickness of about 0.5-1.0mum on the semiconductor substrate forming the phosphorus (P) glass 3 by spin-coating the liquid obtained, for example, by dissolving the silicon compound RnSi(OH)4-n into an organic solvent together with the additive such as phosphorus. This silicon compound film 4 is converted into a smooth film 40 mainly consisting of the silicon oxide through heat processing at a temperature of 250 deg.C. Then, this film 40 is etched in the entire part using the C3F3 gas in the parallel flat type dry etching apparatus. The etching amount is set to a value by which at least the maximum level surface of the phosphorus glass 3 is exposed. The smooth surface can be obtained through such a processing.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To eliminate the need for a mask having difficult manufacture under ion beam exposure by a method wherein the second resist is applied after the first resist is applied on a predetermined substrate and ion beam exposure is performed after forming a predetermined figure on the second resist by exposure and development processes and then the first resist is developed. CONSTITUTION:AZ2400 resist 7 is applied as the first resist on an Si substrate 1 and after prebaking, PBS resist 8 is applied at the second resist for prebaking. A predetermined figure is exposed with the aid of an electron beam exposure device. Development is done by special developer for PBS. The AZ2400 resist has low sensitivity to electron beams, thus the AZ2400 resist is not exposed to open a window 9 in the PBS resist 8. Next, ion beam exposure is done with the aid of proton ion 6. At that time, the PBS resist 8 acts as a mask for ion beams and only the AZ2400 resist 7 is exposed. Finally, development for AZ2401 is done to form a resist pattern.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To shorten a required time for drawing and to obtain a high-precision mask by applying resist after forming a large-area light-shielding film in a prescribed pattern by selectively removing the thin light-shielding film formed on a substrate, and by forming the fine pattern with an electron beam. CONSTITUTION:After a thin light-shielding film 7 formed on a Cr film, etc., on a glass substrate 1 is coated with resist, a pattern generator or elctron-beam exposure device having a high drawing speed is used to draw a large pattern 3 and an L- shaped pattern 4 for positioning, and development, etching and resist removal are performed to form the 1st mask pattern 3. Further, the substrate 1 is coated with new resist and an electron beam exposure device having high resolution is used to scan the L-shaped pattern 4 with an electron beam; while positoning 5 is performed, a fine pattern is drawn. Then, etching and resist removal are carried out to form a fine pattern part 6. Thus, the total drawing time is shortened and the submicron pattern 6 is formed with high precision.
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PURPOSE:To obtain the highly accurate electrode wiring in the semiconductor device by superimposing a resist mask of small pore on a resist mask of large pore, evaporating metallic film thereon, and then removing the masks therefrom. CONSTITUTION:The first positive resist 2 is formed on a semiconductor substrate 1 to form an exposure portion 5. A positive resist 2' is further superimposed to form a smaller exposure portion 5'. When it is developed, an electrode opening 3 having an overhang is formed. When a metallic film 4 is formed and the resist is removed, a miniature electrode pattern 6 is obtained thereon. This configuration can easily form an overhanglike resist pattern and can easily lift off it. Accordingly, it can obtain highly accurate electrode pattern in one development with preferable reproducibility.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To form a low concentration diffused layer on a substrate by heat-treating the substrate in a H2 or ammonia atmosphere and performing diffusion through the film containing impurities through SiO2 film.