Novel high-resolution large-field scan-and-repeat projection lithography system

Kanti Jain

doi:10.1117/12.44822

1 July 1991 Novel high-resolution large-field scan-and-repeat projection lithography system

Kanti Jain

Proceedings Volume 1463, Optical/Laser Microlithography IV; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.44822
Event: Microlithography, 1991, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

A new projection lithography system is described for patterning ultra-high-density semiconductor integrated circuits. The system provides both the fine resolution and the large field size necessary for imaging the chips of the future device generations--64 Mb, 256 Mb, and beyond. The combined capabilities of high resolution and large image field are achieved by a novel scan-and-repeat exposure mechanism. Exposure of image fields as large as several inches across, while maintaining sub-half-micron resolution, is made possible by a 'seamless' scanning technique. Moreover, the above performance is achieved with today's state-of-the-art reduction lenses, thus overcoming a formidable limitation in the advancement of current optical lithography tools. The system described here can be configured with both an excimer laser source and a non-laser (lamp) source. As an example, a machine design is presented that uses a deep-ultraviolet excimer laser source, achieves the resolution and field-size performance described above, and delivers a wafer exposure throughput in the vicinity of 100 (150 mm) or 75 (200 mm) wafers/hour. These throughputs are not only several times greater than the throughput available with any other optical lithography tool. In addition to high- resolution semiconductor chip lithography, this scan-and-repeat concept is also attractive in a variety of other applications, such as flat-panel displays and electronic packaging, where seamless exposure of large areas not limited by the constraints of optical imaging systems is desirable.

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Kanti Jain "Novel high-resolution large-field scan-and-repeat projection lithography system", Proc. SPIE 1463, Optical/Laser Microlithography IV, (1 July 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.44822

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