We introduce thin underlayer (UL) materials (<10 nm) for metal oxide resist (MOR) that can support the lithography performance requirements as well as compatible with conventional etching tool and etching process. Thin UL materials for MOR patterning applications required to have chemical moieties with specific functions and excellent physical properties to meet both lithography and etching performance requirements. We investigated the relationship between surface properties of thin UL materials and its effects on MOR sensitivity, pattern collapse, and defects. We also discussed plausible mechanism based on our experimental results. In addition, we have also confirmed the impact of high EUV absorption unit effect in UL materials on MOR sensitivity.
New spin-on silicon hard mask (Si-HM) material containing Si-C structure in main chain was developed to meet EUV lithography performance, etch requirements and non-lithography patterning applications at sub 5 nm node. New Si-HM material can be used as an alternative to traditional polysiloxane Si-HM. It showed 2.5X high resistance for oxygen etching compared to polysiloxane Si-HM structure due to low electronegative gap and higher silicon content. It can be chemically modified with various functional units, and photoresist adhesion control would be expected to improve. We also observed sensitivity improvement from EUV lithography tri-layer patterning process including new Si-HM. Wet strip-ability with DHF and refractive index at 193 nm were changed significantly for this new Si-HM before and after UV irradiation under air. It also showed excellent gap-fill performance at narrow pattern dimensions on our patterned wafers.
KEYWORDS: System on a chip, Lithography, Reflectivity, Etching, Dry etching, Semiconducting wafers, Scanning electron microscopy, Carbon, Glasses, Optical lithography
The importance of multi-layer process with spin-on hard masks increases for various processes on the next generation of logic and memory devices. The tri-layer process with spin-on glass (SOG) and spin-on carbon (SOC) is mainly used for ArFi multi-patterning lithography process, in order to provide wide process window by suppressing substrate reflectivity as well as etch-transfer fine pattern to substrate by enhancement of etch selectivity. However, conventional tri-layer process in advanced node device has the critical issue on substrate damage in SOG removal process because of vulnerability of topography wafers which contain smaller pattern features and thinner ALD/CVD films. In order to solve this problem, we developed novel SOG removal process with unique SOG/SOC materials for substrate damage mitigation. We will report Thin SOG Process for substrate damage-less SOG removal process.
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