Images relief

Radiation sensitive cast polymers from DADC are also used in resists for microelectronic circuitry. Relief images result from differential rates of solution in alkali induced by exposure to high energy radiations. 

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Sensitivity is defined as the exposure energy necessary for 50% resist thickness remaining in the exposed areas. Contrast values are assessed by measuring the slope of the linear portion of the curve obtained by plotting the thickness of the relief image as a function of the logarithm of the exposure energy (15). The film thickness was measured with a Nanospec AFT film thickness monitor (Nanometrics). 

Figure 2. The schematic diagram showing the formation of a polymeric relief image using lithography. The resist pattern is used to subsequently modify the...

This imposes a limitation on the sensitivity of the resist, i.e., it is necessary to design a resist that will react sufficiently to to produce a lithographically useful, three-dimensional relief image. Now let us consider the four subsystems and their limitations. 

There are two aspects of resist sensitometry 1) the measuiement of resist response to radiation which involves measurements designed to determine the intrinsic radiation sensitivity of the materials from which the resist is constituted and 2) lithographic sensitivity which is a measure of the efficiency with which these radiochemical conversions can be expressed in relief image formation. 

The first example of resist relief image formation in the absence of a wet developing step was reported by Bowden and co-workers in 1974 60). These workers reported that exposure of certain poly (olefin sulfones) to electron beam radiation resulted in spontaneous relief image formation. If the films were cast thin enough and the substrates were heated, it was possible to produce clean images in the resist films by exposure alone, thereby avoiding a wet development step. 

In 1979, Smith and co-workers described the development of a system they called PDF (which presumably stands for Plasma Developable Photoresist) that is based on the use of a material, the structure of which has not yet been divulged 61). In this process the resist is coated in the usual fashion and exposed optically. The exposed film is then subjected to a baking cycle that produces a relief image of negative-tone that is, depressions are generated in unexposed areas (Figure 45). This relief structure is... 

The goal of any lithographic technology is to produce a three-dimensional relief image whose size and fidelity match, as closely as possible, that of the image in the mask or the serial exposure beam. As we discussed in Chapter 2, pattern definition in a resist consists of two distinct steps ... 

Plasma Resistance. Another criterion that a resist must satisfy is that it be resistant to the processes used to transfer the relief image into the substrate. One of the more... 

ABSTRACT A new class of photosensitive, thermally stable polymers containing photo-labile aromatic amide linkages has been prepared. These polymers can be used to provide lithographic relief images for printing, etch masks for microcircuit fabrication and as contrast media for optical information storage. 

Sensitivity. Sensitivity is conventionally defined as the input incident energy (measured in terms of energy or the number of photons or particles (fluence) per unit area) required to attain a certain degree of chemical response in the resist that results, after development, in the desired relief image. This represents an operational, lithographic definition of sensitivity. 

The second important parameter of a photoresist material is the contrast (y) that characterizes the sharpness of the high-resolution relief image needed in microlithography. It was evaluated from the slope of the linear portion of the kinetic curves shown in Figure 2, by using Equation 3 ... 

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