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Resistless EUV lithography: Photon-induced oxide patterning on silicon

Tseng, Li -Ting
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Karadan, Prajith
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Kazazis, Dimitrios
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April 21, 2023
Science Advances

In this work, we show the feasibility of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) patterning on an HF-treated silicon (100) surface in the absence of a photoresist. EUV lithography is the leading lithography technique in semiconductor manufacturing due to its high resolution and throughput, but future progress in resolution can be hampered because of the inherent limitations of the resists. We show that EUV photons can induce surface reactions on a partially hydrogen-terminated silicon surface and assist the growth of an oxide layer, which serves as an etch mask. This mechanism is different from the hydrogen desorption in scanning tunneling microscopy-based li-thography. We achieve silicon dioxide/silicon gratings with 75-nanometer half-pitch and 31-nanometer height, demonstrating the efficacy of the method and the feasibility of patterning with EUV lithography without the use of a photoresist. Further development of the resistless EUV lithography method can be a viable approach to nanometer-scale lithography by overcoming the inherent resolution and roughness limitations of photoresist materials.

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research article
DOI
10.1126/sciadv.adf5997
Web of Science ID

WOS:000989548800009

Author(s)
Tseng, Li -Ting
Karadan, Prajith
Kazazis, Dimitrios
Constantinou, Procopios C.
Stock, Taylor J. Z.
Curson, Neil J.
Schofield, Steven R.
Muntwiler, Matthias
Aeppli, Gabriel  
Ekinci, Yasin
Date Issued

2023-04-21

Publisher

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE

Published in
Science Advances
Volume

9

Issue

16

Article Number

eadf5997

Subjects

Multidisciplinary Sciences

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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atomic layer deposition

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x-ray

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surface

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si

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alcohol

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REVIEWED

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June 19, 2023
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