We are focusing on a high-performance cleaning process with minimum use of chemicals. For the substitution of chemicals, the refined cleaning tools and process have been developed, which use the high-concentration ozonic together with hydrogen water. To optimize a cleaning process, we have evaluated the removal and decomposition efficiency of organic compounds on the mask surface, the optical degradation of Cr and Suicide materials and so on. In conclusion, the substitution of sulfuric acid, ammonia and other chemicals is available for practical cleaning process by combining their functional cleaning steps. Especially in the ArF generation, this cleaning technique was found to be promising for the reduction of optical-damage and chemical residues for mask patterns and as well as high-efficiency particle removal.
In this paper, we focused on the refined cleaning process with minium use of chemicals. We developed a cleaning tools and process using high-concentration ozonic water generated by the high-efficiency ozonizing apparatus (OW00345, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. Industrial Systems), as chemicals substitution. To optimize a cleaning process, we have evaluated the removal and decomposition efficiency of organic compounds on the mask surface, the optical degradation of Cr and Siliside materials and so on.
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