Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a reflective mask blank comprising a multilayer reflective film formed on a substrate so as to reflect EUV light; and a laminated film formed on the multilayer reflective film. The method includes the steps of depositing the multilayer reflective film on the substrate to form a multilayer reflective film formed substrate; carrying out defect inspection for the multilayer reflective film formed substrate; depositing the laminated film on the multilayer reflective film of the multilayer reflective film formed substrate; forming a fiducial mark for an upper portion of the laminated film to thereby form a reflective mask blank comprising the fiducial mark, the fiducial mark serving as a reference for a defect position in defect information; and carrying out defect inspection of the reflective mask blank by using the fiducial mark as a reference.
Abstract:
A reflective mask blank, having a phase shift film having little dependence of phase difference and reflectance on film thickness, and a reflective mask.
Abstract:
Provided is a reflective mask blank with which it is possible to further reduce the shadowing effect of a reflective mask, and also possible to form a fine and highly accurate phase-shift pattern. A reflective mask blank having, in the following order on a substrate, a multilayer reflective film and a phase-shift film that shifts the phase of EUV light, said reflective mask blank characterized in that: the phase-shift film has a first layer and a second layer; the first layer comprises a material that contains at least one element from among tantalum (Ta) and chromium (Cr); and the second layer comprises a metal-containing material that contains ruthenium (Ru) and at least one element from among chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), vanadium (V), niobium (Nb), molybdenum (Mo), tungsten (W), and rhenium (Re).
Abstract:
Provided are a reflective mask blank, having a phase shift film having little dependence of phase difference and reflectance on film thickness, and a reflective mask. The reflective mask blank is characterized in that the phase shift film is composed of a material comprised of an alloy having two or more types of metal so that reflectance of the surface of the phase shift film is more than 3% to not more than 20% and so as to have a phase difference of 170 degrees to 190 degrees, and when a group of metal elements that satisfies the refractive index n and the extinction coefficient k of k > α*n+β is defined as Group A and a group of metal elements that satisfies the refractive index n and the extinction coefficient k of k
Abstract:
Provided is a reflective mask blank with which it is possible to further reduce the shadowing effect of a reflective mask, and also possible to form a fine and highly accurate phase-shift pattern. A reflective mask blank having, in the following order on a substrate, a multilayer reflective film and a phase-shift film that shifts the phase of EUV light, said reflective mask blank characterized in that: the phase-shift film has a first layer and a second layer; the first layer comprises a material that contains at least one element from among tantalum (Ta) and chromium (Cr); and the second layer comprises a metal-containing material that contains ruthenium (Ru) and at least one element from among chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), vanadium (V), niobium (Nb), molybdenum (Mo), tungsten (W), and rhenium (Re).
Abstract:
Provided is a reflective mask capable of reducing out-of-band light when transferring a prescribed pattern onto a wafer by exposure using EUV light in a process of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The mask blank substrate is provided with a base film on a substrate, the base film is formed with a material having a refractive index smaller than the substrate over a wavelength range of not less than 190 nm and not more than 280 nm, and reflectance of the base film arranged on the surface of the substrate is smaller than the reflectance of the substrate over a wavelength range of not less than 190 nm to not more than 280 nm.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a reflective mask blank comprising a multilayer reflective film formed on a substrate so as to reflect EUV light; and a laminated film formed on the multilayer reflective film. The method includes the steps of depositing the multilayer reflective film on the substrate to form a multilayer reflective film formed substrate; carrying out defect inspection for the multilayer reflective film formed substrate; depositing the laminated film on the multilayer reflective film of the multilayer reflective film formed substrate; forming a fiducial mark for an upper portion of the laminated film to thereby form a reflective mask blank comprising the fiducial mark, the fiducial mark serving as a reference for a defect position in defect information; and carrying out defect inspection of the reflective mask blank by using the fiducial mark as a reference.
Abstract:
The present invention aims to provide a reflective mask blank and a reflective mask which have a highly smooth multilayer reflective film as well as a low number of defects, and methods of manufacturing the same, and aims to prevent charge-up during a mask defect inspection using electron beams.The present invention provides a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography in which a conductive underlying film, a multilayer reflective film that reflects exposure light, and an absorber film that absorbs exposure light are layered on a substrate, wherein the conductive underlying film is a single-layer film made of a tantalum-based material or a ruthenium-based material with a film thickness of greater than or equal to 1 nm and less than or equal to 10 nm that is formed adjacent to the multilayer reflective film, or the conductive underlying film is a multilayer film including a layer of a tantalum-based material with a film thickness of greater than or equal to 1 nm and less than or equal to 10 nm that is formed adjacent to the multilayer reflective film and a layer of a conductive material that is formed between the layer of the tantalum-based material and the substrate. The present invention also provides a reflective mask manufactured using the reflective mask blank. Furthermore, a semiconductor device is manufactured using the reflective mask.
Abstract:
To provide a reflective mask blank which may inhibit a variation in reflectance with respect to EUV light due to counter diffusion between a protective film and a material of an adjacent phase-shift film pattern caused by thermal diffusion even if the power of an exposure light source of an EUV exposure machine becomes high; a reflective mask manufactured therefrom; and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. The reflective mask blank comprises a multilayer reflective film 13, protective film 14, and phase-shift film 16 for shifting a phase of the EUV light, which are formed in said order on a substrate 12. The protective film 14 is made of a material containing ruthenium as a main component, the phase-shift film 16 has a tantalum-based material layer comprising tantalum, and an anti-diffusion layer 15 comprising ruthenium and oxygen is formed on a surface of the protective film 14, or as a part of the protective film 14 on a side adjacent to the phase-shift layer 16, so as to inhibit counter diffusion in relation to the phase-shift film 16, thereby inhibiting the thermal diffusion between the protective film 14 and the material of the phase-shift film pattern.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for producing a substrate with a multilayer reflective film for EUV lithography including a multilayer reflective film disposed on a principal surface of a substrate, the method including a multilayer reflective film formation step of forming the multilayer reflective film on the principal surface of the substrate in such a manner that the multilayer reflective film has a slope region in which the film thickness is decreased in a direction from the inside to the outside of the substrate on a peripheral portion of the principal surface, and a fiducial mark formation step of forming fiducial marks in the slope region by removing at least a portion of the multilayer reflective film, the fiducial marks serving as references for a defective location indicated by defect information with respect to the surface of the substrate with the multilayer reflective film.