As flat optics become increasingly mainstream, there is high interest in improving patterning resolution, making new materials available, and lowering manufacturing costs for these components. Because of their maturity across the entire supply chain, 300 mm m offer one of the best opportunities to simultaneously achieve all of these goals. By leveraging existing tooling and knowledge from 300 mm CMOS patterning, the high-pattern resolution of immersion DUV mastering can be combined with nanoimprint lithography and etching to achieve pattern transfer to optical materials. Wafer scale CMOS metrology can also be leveraged to optimize process uniformity and repeatability. This talk will present imec’s recent developments in utilizing CMOS fab tools to pattern high-index dielectrics on 300 mm substrates.
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