Multi-shaped-beam (MSB): an evolutionary approach for high throughput e-beam lithography

Matthias Slodowski; Hans-Joachim Döring; Ines A. Stolberg; Wolfgang Dorl

doi:10.1117/12.868977

24 September 2010 Multi-shaped-beam (MSB): an evolutionary approach for high throughput e-beam lithography

Matthias Slodowski, Hans-Joachim Döring, Ines A. Stolberg, Wolfgang Dorl

Proceedings Volume 7823, Photomask Technology 2010; 78231J (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.868977
Event: SPIE Photomask Technology, 2010, Monterey, California, United States

Abstract

The development of next-generation lithography (NGL) such as EUV, NIL and maskless lithography (ML2) are driven by the half pitch reduction and increasing integration density of integrated circuits down to the 22nm node and beyond. For electron beam direct write (EBDW) several revolutionary pixel based concepts have been under development since several years. By contrast an evolutionary and full package high throughput multi electron-beam approach called Multi Shaped Beam (MSB), which is based on proven Variable Shaped Beam (VSB) technology, will be presented in this paper. In the recent decade VSB has already been applied in EBDW for device learning, early prototyping and low volume fabrication in production environments for both silicon and compound semiconductor applications. Above all the high resolution and the high flexibility due to the avoidance of expensive masks for critical layers made it an attractive solution for advanced technology nodes down to 32nm half pitch. The limitation in throughput of VSB has been mitigated in a major extension of VSB by the qualification of the cell projection (CP) technology concurrently used with VSB. With CP more pixels in complex shapes can be projected in one shot, enabling a remarkable shot count reduction for repetitive pattern. The most advanced step to extend the mature VSB technology for higher throughput is its parallelization in one column applying MEMS based multi deflection arrays. With this Vistec MSB technology, multiple shaped beamlets are generated simultaneously, each controllable individually in shape size and beam on time. Compared to pixel based ML2 approaches the MSB technology enables the maskless, variable and parallel projection of a large number of pixels per beamlet times the number of beamlets. Basic concepts, exposure examples and performance results of each of the described throughput enhancement steps will be presented.

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Matthias Slodowski, Hans-Joachim Döring, Ines A. Stolberg, and Wolfgang Dorl "Multi-shaped-beam (MSB): an evolutionary approach for high throughput e-beam lithography", Proc. SPIE 7823, Photomask Technology 2010, 78231J (24 September 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.868977

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