Characterization of photomask surface cleaning with cryogenic aerosol technique

S. Banerjee; C.C. Lin; S. Su; C. Bowers; H.F. Chung; W. Brandt; K. Tang

doi:10.1117/12.632226

4 November 2005 Characterization of photomask surface cleaning with cryogenic aerosol technique

S. Banerjee, C.C. Lin, S. Su, C. Bowers, H.F. Chung, W. Brandt, K. Tang

Proceedings Volume 5992, 25th Annual BACUS Symposium on Photomask Technology; 59921H (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.632226
Event: SPIE Photomask Technology, 2005, Monterey, California, United States

Abstract

This paper describes a new surface cleaning approach for photomask cleaning. This non-conventional cleaning method uses momentum transfer between aerosolized, frozen, CO₂ particles and the contaminants for effective removal from surface. The purity of CO₂ used is an important component in the determination of cleaning efficiency. The authors will present two methods developed to analyze hydrocarbon contamination in CO₂. These analytical methods were used to compare different grades of CO₂ including Ultra High Pure (UHP) grade developed for sub-micron particle removal from photomasks. Using the UHP grade CO₂, it was shown that greater than 99% particle removal efficiency is possible from silicon wafer surfaces, with higher removal efficiency of sub-micron particles compared to larger size range. This particular characteristic of particle removal by cryogenic aerosol method is theoretically derived in an earlier paper. In this paper results of CO₂ cryogenic aerosol cleaning with respect to electrostatic discharges on two different binary masks are presented. The paper also shows the removal of 99.9% of the progressive defects such as haze of 0.5 to 1.0 μm size. Cleaning characterization of attenuating phase shift masks with MoSiON films indicate 0.04% change in transmission and 0.37% change in phase angle after 16 cleaning cycles, suggesting that cryogenic cleaning has minimal effect on transmission and phase of att-PSM.

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S. Banerjee, C.C. Lin, S. Su, C. Bowers, H.F. Chung, W. Brandt, and K. Tang "Characterization of photomask surface cleaning with cryogenic aerosol technique", Proc. SPIE 5992, 25th Annual BACUS Symposium on Photomask Technology, 59921H (4 November 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.632226

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