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21 June 2006Plasma deposited and evaporated thin resists for template fabrication
In this paper, we demonstrate electron beam lithography at energies ranging from 2 keV to 100 keV, on sub-100 nm thick
resists. Such uniform and thin electron beam sensitive films can be deposited by evaporation or by plasma deposition.
Two examples of such resists are studied, QSR-5 which is a negative sterol based evaporated resist and QPR-P50 which
is a positive PECVD deposited fluoropolymer resist. AFM measurements demonstrate surface roughness smaller then
3 nm for QSR-5 and 0.7 nm for QPR-P50. In both cases, 50 nm features or better are patterned using electron beam
lithography on a template blank consisting of a glass substrate, coated with a 10 nm thick Cr transfer layer and a resist
layer. LER (3σ) is measured to be less then 8% for 50 nm wide lines in QSR-5 and of approx. 10% for 50 nm wide lines
in QPR-P50.
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Eric Lavallée, Jacques Beauvais, Bertrand Takam Mangoua, Dominique Drouin, "Plasma deposited and evaporated thin resists for template fabrication," Proc. SPIE 6281, 22nd European Mask and Lithography Conference, 62810O (21 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.692742