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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mask blank and a photomask reducing obstacles to higher quality of a large-sized mask blank and mask for future FPD.SOLUTION: A mask blank 10 for producing an FPD device comprises a glass substrate 12, a light-transmissive film 14 having light transmissivity through a light in a wavelength region over i line to g line, and a metal silicide-based film, where the metal silicide-based film is a film patterned by wet-etching using an etching liquid as an aqueous solution in which one or more fluorine compounds selected from ammonium hydrogen fluoride, ammonium fluoride and fluoroboronic acid is mixed with an oxidant and where the light-transmissive film 14 is a film formed of a material having etching selectivity for an etching liquid used in wet-etching of a metal silicide-based film.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a mask blank capable of manufacturing a high-quality mask blank with a high yield, while suppressing generation of defects in a thin film for forming a mask pattern, to provide a method for manufacturing a transfer mask manufactured by patterning the thin film of the mask blank, and to provide a sputtering target that is used for manufacturing the mask blank. SOLUTION: By using a sputtering target 14, containing silicon and having a hardness of 900 HV or more in Vickers' hardness, a thin film for forming the mask pattern on a substrate 1 is formed by sputtering, and the high-quality mask blank that suppresses generating of defects is manufactured; and further, the transfer mask is manufactured by patterning the thin film. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mask blank for use in manufacturing of an FPD device provided with a light-semitransmissive film of which a change in transmittance is small as wavelength changes in a wavelength band from i-rays to g-rays. SOLUTION: The photomask blank for use in manufacturing of an FPD device includes a light-transmissive substrate 16, a light-semitransmissive film 17 which is formed on the substrate 16 and is made of a material containing chromium, and a light-shielding film 18 which is formed on the film 17 and is made of a material containing tantalum. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mask blank suitable to a photomask for FPD, and the photomask. SOLUTION: The mask blank 10 is for manufacturing an FPD device, and has a substrate 12, a light shield film 14 formed on the substrate 12 by using metal silicide as a material, and an upper-layer film 16 formed on the light shield film 14 by using oxidized or oxynitrided metal silicide as a material. The light shield film 14 and upper-layer film 16 are films to be wet-etched by using an etching mask obtained by patterning a resist film 18 formed on the upper-layer film 16, and the resist film 18 is formed by discharging resist liquid onto the upper-layer film 16 from a nozzle having a resist liquid supply hole extending in one direction and also simultaneously moving the nozzle in a direction crossing the one direction relatively to the upper-layer film surface, the upper-layer film 16 being 50 to 300Å thick. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method or the like for manufacturing a photomask blank capable of efficiently reducing film stress. SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing the photomask blank having at least a film for forming a mask pattern on a transparent substrate comprises a film forming process for sputter-forming the film for forming the mask pattern by containing at least helium gas in sputtering atmosphere and a process for heating the transparent substrate during or after the film forming process. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a halftone phase shift mask blank and a halftone phase shift mask having proper chemical resistance and light resistance and ensuring accurate pattern drawing without a charge-up phenomenon on patterning a resist film by electron beam lithography. SOLUTION: The halftone phase shift mask blank 10B has a phase shift film 2, containing metal and silicon and having a phase shift function, a light-shielding film 3 and a resist film 4 formed, in this order on a transparent substrate 1. The phase shift film 2 comprises a film, having a ratio of atomic percentages of the metal to silicon larger than metal:silicon=1:2 and is a dense film with ≤2 nm for root-mean-square (RMS) roughness. An exposed portion 5, where the phase shift film 2 is absent, is formed in the peripheral edge on the transparent substrate 1. The light-shielding film 3 is made of a material, having conductivity of such a degree that charge-up phenomenon is not induced when patterning the resist film 4 by electron beam drawing, and the film is formed to cover the exposed portion 5 and the phase shift film 2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a photomask blank capable of efficiently relieving film stress. SOLUTION: The method for producing a photomask blank having at least a film for forming a mask pattern on a transparent substrate has a film deposition step in which the film for forming a mask pattern is deposited by sputtering in a sputtering atmosphere in which at least gaseous helium is contained and a step for heating the transparent substrate during or after the film deposition step. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device, process, etc., for manufacturing a phase shift mask blank wherein the total number of particles and pinholes with diameters larger than about half the exposure wavelength of a translucent film is 0.1/cm 2 . SOLUTION: In a DC magnetron sputtering device for manufacturing a halftone phase shift mask blank, for example, the target surface is placed facing down against the direction of gravity, a full erosion cathode is used, the corner 5a of the end of the target and the corner of an earth shield are rounded off (corner rounding), the end of the target 5b, an exposed backing plate surface 4b and the surface of the earth shield 12 are roughened, and the earth shield 12 is placed above (on the backing plate side) the target surface d. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing a phase shift mask blank having a semi-transparent film or a portion which has a prescribed phase angle and prescribed transmission, and superior film characteristics such as resistance to chemicals, resistance to light, and low in internal stress. SOLUTION: The method is to manufacture the phase shift mask blank of halftone type with the semi-transparent film formed on a transparent substrate. The semi-transparent film is made of a thin film mainly composed of nitrogen, metal and silicon, and formed on the transparent substrate. Then, the thermal process for the semi-transparent film is carried out at a temp. of not lower than 150 deg.C.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a producing method of a halftone phase shift mask, having a semitransparent part for light excellent in film characteristics such as acid resistance, light resistance, conductivity, refractive index (film thickness), transmittance, phase shift amount and etching selectivity. SOLUTION: The producing method of a phase shift mask includes a process for forming a semitransmitting thin film 3a for light as a thin film, which constitutes a semitransparent part on a transparent substrate 1 and a process for forming a resist pattern on the semitransparent thin film 3a. The semitransparent thin film 3a consists of a material essentially comprising nitrogen, metal and silicon as the main structural elements and contains 34 to 60 at.% silicon. The resist pattern formed on the thin film 3a is used as a mask for etching the semitransparent thin film 3a to obtain the desired pattern of the thin film, and then the thin film is subjected to sulfuric acid cleaning.