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Provided is a mask blank with a phase shift film having a function to transmit ArF exposure light at a predetermined transmittance and a function to generate a predetermined phase difference to the transmitting ArF exposure light, and having high ArF light fastness. The phase shift film has a function to transmit ArF exposure light at 2% or more transmittance and a function to generate a phase difference of 150 degrees or more and 180 degrees or less to the transmitting ArF exposure light; a lower layer and an upper layer are stacked from a substrate side; the lower layer is formed from silicon or silicon containing one or more elements selected from nonmetallic elements other than oxygen and semimetal elements; the upper layer other than a surface layer is formed from silicon and nitrogen or a material consisting of silicon, nitrogen and one or more elements selected from nonmetallic elements excluding oxygen and semimetal elements; the lower layer has refractive index n of less than 1.8 and extinction coefficient k of 2.0 or more; the upper layer has refractive index n of 2.3 or more and extinction coefficient k of 1.0 or less; and the upper layer has more thickness than the lower layer.
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DOCUMENT] Abs tract Provided is a mask blank having sufficiently fast repair rate of EB defect repair, and sufficiently high repair rate ratio to EB defect repair relative to a transparent substrate, even if the phase shift film is formed as a stacked structure of a high transmitting layer made of a SiN-based material with a large amount of nitrogen content and a low transmitting layer made of a SiN-based material with a small amount of nitrogen content. The mask blank includes a phase shift film on a transparent substrate, the phase shift film has a structure including three sets or more of a set of a stacked structure including a high transmitting layer and a low transmitting layer, the high transmitting layer and the low transmitting layer are made of a material consisting of silicon and nitrogen, or a material consisting of silicon, nitrogen, oxygen, and one or more elements selected from a metalloid element and a non-metallic element, the high transmitting layer includes atom% or more nitrogen content and has a thickness of 12 nm or less, and the low transmitting layer includes less than 50 atom% nitrogen content and has a thickness less than the high transmitting layer. 61
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DOCUMENT] [TITLE OF INVENTION] MASK BLANK, PHASE SHIFT MASK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Provided is a mask blank with a phase shift film having a function to transmit ArF exposure light at a predetermined transmittance and a function to generate a predetermined phase difference to the transmitting ArF exposure light, and having high ArF light fastness. The phase shift film has a function to transmit ArF exposure light at 2% or more transmittance and a function to generate a phase difference of 150 degrees or more and 180 degrees or less to the transmitting ArF exposure light; a lower layer and an upper layer are stacked from a substrate side; the lower layer is formed from silicon or silicon containing one or more elements selected from nonmetallic elements other than oxygen and semimetal elements; the upper layer other than a surface layer is formed from silicon and nitrogen or a material consisting of silicon, nitrogen and one or more elements selected from nonmetallic elements excluding oxygen and semimetal elements; the lower layer has refractive index n of less than 1.8 and extinction coefficient k of 2.0 or more; the upper layer has refractive index n of 2.3 or more and extinction coefficient k of 1.0 or less; and the upper layer has more thickness than the lower layer. FIG. 1
Abstract:
Provided is a mask blank with a phase shift film having a function to transmit ArF exposure light at a predetermined transmittance and a function to generate a predetermined phase difference to the transmitting ArF exposure light, and having high ArF light fastness. The phase shift film has a function to transmit ArF exposure light at 2% or more transmittance and a function to generate a phase difference of 150 degrees or more and 180 degrees or less to the transmitting ArF exposure light; a lower layer and an upper layer are stacked from a substrate side; the lower layer is formed from silicon or silicon containing one or more elements selected from nonmetallic elements other than oxygen and semimetal elements; the upper layer other than a surface layer is formed from silicon and nitrogen or a material consisting of silicon, nitrogen and one or more elements selected from nonmetallic elements excluding oxygen and semimetal elements; the lower layer has refractive index n of less than 1.8 and extinction coefficient k of 2.0 or more; the upper layer has refractive index n of 2.3 or more and extinction coefficient k of 1.0 or less; and the upper layer has more thickness than the lower layer.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a perpendicular magnetic recording medium capable of securing a high SNR while enhancing reliability by increasing strength of a coated film of a granular layer, and to provide a method for manufacturing the same. SOLUTION: In the perpendicular magnetic recording medium 100 including at least a granular layer having a granular structure which is made of a Co-based alloy and where crystal grains are grown in a columnar shape on a disk base body 110, the granular layer (a non-magnetic granular layer 120, a first magnetic recording layer 122a, a second magnetic recording layer 122b) is film-deposited on the disk base body 110 by changing film-deposition speed from a low speed to a high speed or from the high speed to the low speed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To property reduce the size of magnetic crystal particles of a magnetic recording layer. SOLUTION: A method of manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic recording medium 100 for recording information by a perpendicular magnetic recording system includes: an under layer deposition step of depositing an under layer 118 controlling the crystal orientation of an upper layer; and a magnetic recording layer deposition step of depositing a main recording layer 120 as a magnetic recording layer with a granular structure in which magnetic crystal particles 306 with the magnetization easy axes oriented to a direction according to the crystal orientation of the under layer 118 are dispersed in a matrix of a nonmagnetic material 308. In the under layer deposition step, at least the uppermost layer part of the under layer 118 is deposited by a sputtering method using as a sputtering gas a gas mixture of a noble gas and a polyatomic molecular gas. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a perpendicular magnetic recording medium capable of securing a high SNR while enhancing reliability by increasing strength of a coated film of an underlayer layer, and to provide a method for manufacturing the same. SOLUTION: In the perpendicular magnetic recording medium 100 including at least the underlayer 118 made of ruthenium and a granular layer (a non-magnetic granular layer 120, a magnetic recording layer 122) having a granular structure which is made of a Co-based alloy and where crystal grains are grown in a columnar shape on a disk base body 110, the underlayer is film-deposited on the disk base body by changing film-deposition speed from a low speed to a high speed or from the high speed to the low speed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a perpendicular magnetic recording medium capable of enhancing OW characteristics while maintaining coercive force Hc and an SNR and achieving high recording density, and to provide a method of manufacturing the same. SOLUTION: The perpendicular magnetic recording medium sequentially includes at least: a front underlayer 116 containing Ni, W and Pd on a disk base body 110; an underlayer 118 film-deposited on the front underlayer 116 and containing Ru; and a non-magnetic granular layer 120 film-deposited on the underlayer 118 and having a granular structure which is made of a Co-based alloy and whose crystal grains grow in a columnar shape. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT