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PURPOSE: A gray tone mask blank, a manufacturing method of a gray tone mask using thereof, the gray tone mask, and a pattern transferring method using thereof are provided to obtain an accurate CD of a pattern formed on a mask, and to reduce the change of the pattern. CONSTITUTION: A gray tone mask blank comprises the following: a light-shielding layer(25) pattern formed on a transparent substrate(24); a semi-transparent layer(26) in the front side of the light-shielding layer; and a resist film(27) formed on the semi-transparent layer. The composition of the light-shielding layer changes to the film thickness direction. The surface reflection ratio of the resist film reduces for a laser lithography light with the wavelength of 300~450 nanometers.
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PURPOSE: A method for modifying a photomask and the photomask which is modified using the same are provided to enable a damaged part to be transparent to pattern transfer wavelengths by making a hardened part have a light transmission rate and a refractive index same as a glass substrate and to prevent diffused reflection on the damaged part. CONSTITUTION: A method for modifying a photomask comprises a step of spreading liquid glass(3) on a damaged part(1a) of the photomask(1) which is manufactured using a glass substrate and a step of hardening the liquid glass. The liquid glass is tetraethyl orthosilicate or a spin on glass material. The liquid glass is hardened using heat or ultraviolet ray(4). The liquid glass is spread on a concave part after forming the concave part by eliminating the damaged part of the photomask.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a five-gradation photomask that is manufactured with a small number of translucent films and a small number of drawing times. SOLUTION: The five-gradation photomask includes a mask pattern composed of a light shielding part 12, a translucent part 11, a first translucent part 13A, a second translucent part 13B, and a third translucent part 13C on a transparent substrate 14. The light shielding part 11 is formed of at least a light-shielding film formed on the transparent substrate 14; the translucent part 11 is formed of an exposed part of the transparent substrate 14; and each of the first translucent part 13A, second translucent part 13B and third translucent part 13C is formed of one of a first translucent film 16, a second translucent film 17, which are formed on the transparent substrate 14 and have transmittances to exposure light inherent to the respective films different from each other, and a laminated film of the first translucent film 16 and the second translucent film 17. Two in the first translucent part 13A, second translucent part 13B, and third translucent part 13C are patterns having the same effective transmittance but different line widths from each other. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing a photomask in which pattern defects arising from defects of a photomask blank are preferably reduced. SOLUTION: The method of manufacturing a photomask determines a drawing position of a transfer pattern so that, in a drawing step, at least a part of the defects existing in a thin film of the photomask blank and/or a surface of a resist film is within an area of the transfer pattern and the defects of the part disappear after etching processing on the basis of defect information of the photomask blank grasped beforehand. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mask blank and a photomask suitable for processes in a large mask for a FPD (flat panel display) (for example, a resist application method, an etching method and a cleaning method). SOLUTION: The mask blank for manufacturing a FPD device includes at least one of a light-shielding film and a semi-translucent film having a function of adjusting the transmission quantity on a light-transmitting substrate. A root mean square roughness Rq on the film surface of the light-shielding film and the semi-translucent film is not more than 2.0 nm. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing a multi-gradation photomask that has small restriction on selection of a material for a light shield film. SOLUTION: In the method of manufacturing the multi-gradation photomask, having the light-shielding film 2 and a translucent film 4 on a transparent substrate 1, since the shape of the translucent film 4 is formed by a lift-off to eliminate an etching stage for the translucent film 4, there is no need for the light-shielding film 2 to have resistance for an etching gas or an etchant of the translucent film 4, so that restrictions regarding the selection of a material for the light-shielding film 2 becomes few. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method for a five-gradation photomask, manufactured with a reduced film number of translucent film and a reduced drawing frequency. SOLUTION: The manufacturing method has a process for preparing a photomask blank having a first translucent film and a light shield film with etching selectability, in this order, on a transparent substrate, a process for forming a first resist pattern on the light shield film, a process for etching the light shield film, using the first resist pattern as a mask, to carry out the first patterning, a process for removing the first resist pattern and for forming a second resist pattern, a process for etching the first translucent film, using the second resist pattern as a mask, to carry out the second patterning, a process for removing the second resist pattern and for forming the first translucent film and an etching-selectable second translucent film, on the whole substrate face, a process for forming a third resist pattern on the second translucent film, and a process for etching the second translucent film, using the third resist pattern as a mask, to carry out the third patterning. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for correcting a defect in a gray tone mask, by which a defect caused in a semi-translucent part can be suitably corrected. SOLUTION: The method for correcting the defect in a gray tone mask 20 having a light-shielding part 21, a translucent part 22 and a semi-translucent part 23 where the transmission amount of exposure light to be used when using the mask can be decreased by a predetermined amount, includes: a step in which the semi-translucent part 23 is formed of a semi-translucent film 26 and a defective region is specified in the semi-translucent part 23; and a step of forming a correction film 27 having a different composition from that of the semi-translucent film in the defective region. In the step of forming a correction film, light transmittance characteristics of the correction film with respect to the exposure light at a predetermined wavelength are preliminarily recognized; and on the basis of the recognized light transmittance characteristics of the correction film, such conditions are applied that the light transmittance of the correction film 27 with respect to the exposure light at the predetermined wavelength is approximately equal to that of the semi-translucent film 26. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mask blank and a photomask which are suitable for achieving higher quality of a large-sized mask blank and a mask for future FPD. SOLUTION: The mask blank is for manufacturing an FPD device having at least one of a translucent film and a light shielding film having a function of adjusting a transmission quantity on a light-transmissive substrate. The translucent film or light shielding film is made of a metal-silicide-based material containing metal and silicon, and the translucent film made of the metal-silicide-based material or the light shielding film made of the metal-silicide-based material is so formed that an etching rate of wet etching increases along the depth direction of the film of the translucent film or light shielding film. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To decrease the number of substrates which need to have translucent films peeled as a gray tone mask blank for FPD does not pass inspection when the gray tone mask blank is manufactured. SOLUTION: A method of manufacturing the gray tone mask blank 10 for manufacturing an FPD device includes a preparation stage of preparing a light-transmissive substrate 12, a translucent film formation stage of forming a translucent film 14 of metal silicide on the substrate, a transmissivity adjustment stage of adjusting the transmissivity of the translucent film 14, and a light shield film formation stage of forming a light shield film 16 on the transmissivity-adjusted translucent film 14. In the transmissivity adjustment stage, the transmissivity of the translucent film 14 is measured, and then the transmissivity of the translucent film 14 is adjusted when the difference between the measured transmissivity and previously set transmissivity exceeds a range of variance allowed as a gray tone mask and the measured transmissivity is 75 to 125% of the set transmissivity. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT