Design of resist stacks with antireflection coatings from the viewpoint of focus budget

Satoshi Nagai; Kazuya Sato

doi:10.1117/12.813367

16 March 2009 Design of resist stacks with antireflection coatings from the viewpoint of focus budget

Satoshi Nagai, Kazuya Sato

Proceedings Volume 7274, Optical Microlithography XXII; 72741H (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.813367
Event: SPIE Advanced Lithography, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Liquid immersion lithography tools with NA=1.3 are being applied for hp4x node device and beyond. As the typical DOF has been reduced to 100 nm or less for this hyper-NA exposure, precise consideration of the error factors that lead to DOF reduction is required. The BFD (Best Focus Difference between pattern kinds) induced by resist stack is one of the error factors yet to be solved. In this work, the BFD induced by resist stack was studied through simulation and experiment by decomposing it into the following three components: One induced by the "refraction" effect, one induced by the "reflection" effect and one induced by the "process" effect. Each BFD was evaluated by simulation to make a BFD budget. Experimental verification was also performed, which confirmed BFD of 25 nm and it was found that over 30 % of the observed BFD was induced owing to resist stack. Based on this result, we discuss a method for controlling the BFD by utilizing projection lens aberration and review the design flow of resist stacks with antireflection coatings.

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Satoshi Nagai and Kazuya Sato "Design of resist stacks with antireflection coatings from the viewpoint of focus budget", Proc. SPIE 7274, Optical Microlithography XXII, 72741H (16 March 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.813367

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