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11 May 2009 Litho/mask strategies for 32-nm half-pitch and beyond: using established and adventurous tools/technologies to improve cost and imaging performance
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Cost and imaging are becoming big concerns in lithographic patterning of 32-nm half pitch and beyond, affecting the choice of lithographic patterning tools and the corresponding mask technology. In this paper, the cost and imaging aspects of ArF immersion double patterning, multiple e-beam maskless lithography, and extreme-uv lithography are discussed with proposals to make the cost acceptable. The impacts of these technologies to the masking industry are quite different. They are also given here. Some comments are made on nano-imprint lithography.
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Burn J. Lin "Litho/mask strategies for 32-nm half-pitch and beyond: using established and adventurous tools/technologies to improve cost and imaging performance", Proc. SPIE 7379, Photomask and Next-Generation Lithography Mask Technology XVI, 737902 (11 May 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.824243
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KEYWORDS
Photomasks

Extreme ultraviolet lithography

Scanners

Extreme ultraviolet

Lithography

Double patterning technology

Semiconducting wafers

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