From powerful research platform for industrial EUV photoresist development, to world record resolution by photolithography: EUV interference lithography at the Paul Scherrer Institute

Elizabeth Buitrago; Roberto Fallica; Daniel Fan; Waiz Karim; Michaela Vockenhuber; Jeroen A. van Bokhoven; Yasin Ekinci

doi:10.1117/12.2238805

15 September 2016 From powerful research platform for industrial EUV photoresist development, to world record resolution by photolithography: EUV interference lithography at the Paul Scherrer Institute

Elizabeth Buitrago, Roberto Fallica, Daniel Fan, Waiz Karim, Michaela Vockenhuber, Jeroen A. van Bokhoven, Yasin Ekinci

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Proceedings Volume 9926, UV and Higher Energy Photonics: From Materials to Applications; 99260T (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238805
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Extreme ultraviolet interference lithography (EUV-IL, λ = 13.5 nm) has been shown to be a powerful technique not only for academic, but also for industrial research and development of EUV materials due to its relative simplicity yet record high-resolution patterning capabilities. With EUV-IL, it is possible to pattern high-resolution periodic images to create highly ordered nanostructures that are difficult or time consuming to pattern by electron beam lithography (EBL) yet interesting for a wide range of applications such as catalysis, electronic and photonic devices, and fundamental materials analysis, among others. Here, we will show state-of the-art research performed using the EUV-IL tool at the Swiss Light Source (SLS) synchrotron facility in the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). For example, using a grating period doubling method, a diffraction mask capable of patterning a world record in photolithography of 6 nm half-pitch (HP), was produced. In addition to the description of the method, we will give a few examples of applications of the technique. Well-ordered arrays of suspended silicon nanowires down to 6.5 nm linewidths have been fabricated and are to be studied as field effect transistors (FETs) or biosensors, for instance. EUV achromatic Talbot lithography (ATL), another interference scheme that utilizes a single grating, was shown to yield well-defined nanoparticles over large-areas with high uniformity presenting great opportunities in the field of nanocatalysis. EUV-IL is in addition, playing a key role in the future introduction of EUV lithography into high volume manufacturing (HVM) of semiconductor devices for the 7 and 5 nm logic node (16 nm and 13 nm HP, respectively) and beyond while the availability of commercial EUV-tools is still very much limited for research.

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Elizabeth Buitrago, Roberto Fallica, Daniel Fan, Waiz Karim, Michaela Vockenhuber, Jeroen A. van Bokhoven, and Yasin Ekinci "From powerful research platform for industrial EUV photoresist development, to world record resolution by photolithography: EUV interference lithography at the Paul Scherrer Institute", Proc. SPIE 9926, UV and Higher Energy Photonics: From Materials to Applications, 99260T (15 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238805

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