New 157-nm resist platform based on etching model for fluoropolymers

Shinji Kishimura; Masayuki Endo; Masaru Sasago

doi:10.1117/12.474219

24 July 2002 New 157-nm resist platform based on etching model for fluoropolymers

Shinji Kishimura, Masayuki Endo, Masaru Sasago

Proceedings Volume 4690, Advances in Resist Technology and Processing XIX; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.474219
Event: SPIE's 27th Annual International Symposium on Microlithography, 2002, Santa Clara, California, United States

Abstract

We designed platforms for a 157-nm resist polymer that have both high transparency and high etch resistance. We measured the etching rate of various fluoropolymers under the conditions of poly etch and oxide etch processes. Most of the fluoropolymers showed good correlation with an etching rate ratio and a value of (N_C-N_O-N_F) / N_T (N_T, N_C, N_O, and N_F was the number of total atoms, carbon, oxygen, and fluorine atom in a monomer unit, respectively). This index, (N_C-N_O-N_F) / N_T was named IERF (index for etch resistance of fluoropolymers). It became easy to design a fluoropolymer that has high etch resistance using this index. Moreover, the acrylic polymer that has a particular kind of fluorinated alicyclic compound in its side chain was not in the above-mentioned correlation, however, it was found to have higher etch resistance. Base upon these results, two platforms were built, one of the copolymer type with polyacrylate (PA) and polystyrene (PS), the other of the copolymer type with PA and polycycloolefin (PC). Resists belonging to the two platforms were made and a high resolution of 85 nm or less was obtained by using the Microstepper (NA0.6, (sigma) 0.3, alternating phase shift mask). These resists showed a slightly higher etch resistance as compared with a COMA (cycloolefin-maleic anhydride) type resist with comparatively high etch resistance even during the ArF resist.

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Shinji Kishimura, Masayuki Endo, and Masaru Sasago "New 157-nm resist platform based on etching model for fluoropolymers", Proc. SPIE 4690, Advances in Resist Technology and Processing XIX, (24 July 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.474219

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