High Precision X-Ray Lithographic Masks

Abstract

This contract period, was first concerned with winding up the projects on the embedded X-ray Mask structure and on the 'quantum lithography' idea. As a result of developments elsewhere it became clear that the among the most critical issues in achieving high precision X-ray masks were those associated with achieving high precision in both feature size and feature placement in electron beam lithography. Most of the effort in this reporting period was aimed at achieving precision in feature size; notably an attack on the problem of proximity effects. There were two approaches: (1) A short term approach aimed at correcting effects in existing electron beam pattern generators (notably the ETEC MEBES 3 and 4) for feature sizes down 500 nm; and (2) A long term approach aimed at avoiding proximity effects by employing low energy electron exposure for feature size below 500 nm

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA273342

Entities

People

  • R. Browning
  • Roger Fabian W. Pease

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Differential Cross Sections
  • Diffraction
  • Elastic Scattering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electron Beam Lithography
  • Electron Energy
  • Electron Microscopes
  • Electron Microscopy
  • Electron Scattering
  • Forward Scattering
  • Manufacturing
  • Measurement
  • Microscopes
  • Optics
  • Photolithography
  • Scanning Electron Microscopes

Readers

  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene
  • Quantum Computing