Abstract:
Durch Erhöhen der Ätzrate einer lichtabschirmenden Schicht kann die Trockenätzzeit verkürzt werden, so dass der Verlust einer Resistschicht vermindert wird. Dadurch kann die Dicke der Resistschicht (auf 300 nm oder weniger) vermindert werden, so dass eine Musterauflösung und eine Mustergenauigkeit (CD-Genauigkeit) verbessert werden können. Außerdem werden durch Verkürzen der Trockenätzzeit ein Fotomaskenrohling und ein Fotomaskenherstellungsverfahren bereitgestellt, durch die ein lichtabschirmendes Schichtmuster mit einer ausgezeichneten Querschnittsform ausgebildet werden kann. Ein Fotomaskenrohling mit einer lichtabschirmenden Schicht auf einem optisch transparenten Substrat ist ein Maskenrohling für einen Trockenätzprozess, der für ein Fotomaskenherstellungsverfahren zum Strukturieren der lichtabschirmenden Schicht durch den Trockenätzprozess unter Verwendung eines auf der lichtabschirmenden Schicht ausgebildeten Resistmusters als Maske geeignet ist, wobei die lichtabschirmende Schicht aus einem Material mit einer Selektivität von mehr als 1 bezüglich des Resistmaterials im Trockenätzprozess hergestellt ist.
Abstract:
A lithography mask blank used as a material for producing a lithography mask includes at least one thin film which is formed on a substrate and has a desired function. The blank has a nitrogen-containing thin film as the above-mentioned thin film and an ammonium ion production preventing layer for preventing production of ammonium ions, which is formed on the nitrogen-containing thin film or at least at a surface portion of the nitrogen-containing thin film and which is exposed on the surface of the lithography mask after the lithography mask is manufactured.
Abstract:
Verfahren zur Herstellung eines Lithografiemaskenrohlings mit den Schritten: Bereitstellen eines Substrats; Ausbilden mindestens einer Lage aus einer Dünnschicht, die Molybdän, Silizium und Stickstoff enthält, auf dem Substrat; und Ausbilden einer Schicht zum Verhindern der Erzeugung von Ammoniumionen an mindestens einem Oberflächenabschnitt der Dünnschicht, wobei die Schicht zum Verhindern der Erzeugung von Ammoniumionen durch Ausführen einer Wärmebehandlung der Dünnschicht, die Molybdän, Silizium und Stickstoff enthält, in einer Atmosphäre hergestellt wird, die Sauerstoff enthält.
Abstract:
By increasing the dry etching rate of a light shielding film, the dry etching time can be shortened so that loss of a resist film is reduced. As a result, a reduction in thickness (to 300 nm or less) of the resist film becomes possible so that pattern resolution and pattern accuracy (CD accuracy) can be improved. Further, by shortening the dry etching time, a photomask blank and a photomask manufacturing method are provided, which can form a pattern of the light shielding film having an excellent sectional shape. In a photomask blank having a light shielding film on an optically transparent substrate, the photomask blank being a mask blank for a dry etching process adapted for a photomask producing method of patterning the light shielding film by the dry etching process using as a mask a pattern of a resist formed on the light shielding film, the light shielding film is made of a material having a selectivity exceeding 1 with respect to the resist in the dry etching process.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique capable of easily and accurately adjusting the wavelength dependence of reflectance of a light shielding film so as to properly and rapidly perform redesigning under transition of exposure wavelength, resist drawing wavelength, and inspection wavelength in a halftone phase shift mask. SOLUTION: In a method for adjusting the wavelength dependence of reflectance of the light shielding film 3 in the halftone phase shift mask blank having on a transparent substrate 1 a translucent film 2 having a prescribed transmittance and phase shifting extent to exposure light and the light shielding film 3 formed on on the translucent film 2, the top layer part of the light shielding film 3 is formed as a reflectance adjustment part 3a comprising chromium, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen and the wavelength dependence of reflectance of the entire light shielding film 3 is adjusted according to the nitrogen content of the reflectance adjusting part 3a. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photomask blank and a method for manufacturing a photomask, in which a dry etching time can be shortened and the film reduction of a resist film can be decreased by increasing a dry etching speed of a light shielding film, and thereby, a resist film can be made thinner (≤300 nm), pattern resolution and pattern accuracy (CD accuracy) can be improved, and a light shielding film pattern having a preferable cross-sectional shape can be formed by shortening the dry etching time. SOLUTION: The mask blank for a dry etching process has a light shielding film on a light transmitting substrate and is applicable to a method of manufacturing a photomask for patterning the light shielding film by a dry etching process using a resist pattern as a mask formed on the light shielding film as a mask. The light shielding film is composed of a material having a selectivity to the resist over 1 in the dry etching process. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substrate holder or the like for film formation free from the need of exchanging a pallet (with the one) for carrying matching to the size of a substrate, moreover reduced in charging time and capable of reducing the production cost. SOLUTION: This is a substrate holder 1 for film formation having an outer shape form being mountable to substrate fitting holes (e.g. of 3.5 inches) in a pallet for carrying in an inline type sputtering device and a supporting hole 3 for handling. The substrate holder 1 for film formation has substrate fitting holes 2 capable of being mounted with a plurality of substrates (e.g. of 1 inch) for film formation.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten a dry etching time and to decrease film reduction in a resist film by increasing the dry etching rate of a light shielding film. SOLUTION: In a photomask blank having a light shielding film on an optically transparent substrate, the photomask blank is a mask blank for a dry etching process adapted for a photomask production method of patterning the light shielding film by the dry etching process using as a mask a pattern of a resist formed on the light shielding film, wherein the light shielding film is made of a material having a selectivity exceeding 1 with respect to the resist in the dry etching process. As a result, a reduction in thickness (to 300 nm or less) of the resist film becomes possible so that pattern resolution and pattern accuracy (CD accuracy) can be improved. Further, by shortening the dry etching time, a pattern of the light shielding film having an excellent sectional shape can be formed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photomask blank and a method for manufacturing a photomask, in which a dry etching time can be shortened and the film reduction of a resist film can be decreased by increasing a dry etching speed of a light shielding film, and thereby, a resist film can be made thinner (≤300 nm), pattern resolution and pattern accuracy (CD accuracy) can be improved, and a light shielding film pattern having a preferable cross-sectional shape can be formed by shortening the dry etching time. SOLUTION: The mask blank for a dry etching process has a light shielding film on a translucent substrate and is applicable to a method of manufacturing a photomask for patterning the light shielding film by a dry etching process using a resist pattern as a mask formed on the light shielding film as a mask. The light shielding film is composed of a material having a selectivity ratio to the resist over 1 in the dry etching process. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reliably detect a defect or foreign matter in a halftone phase shifting mask. SOLUTION: A halftone phase shifting mask obtained by laminating a translucent film pattern and a light shielding film pattern in this order on a transparent substrate is composed in such a way that the transparent substrate, the translucent film pattern and the light shielding film pattern are made different from each other in reflectance to inspection light to such a degree that the translucent film pattern and the light shielding film pattern can be detected based on light reflected when the mask is irradiated with the inspection light. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO