Abstract
Extreme ultraviolet interference lithography was carried out at the long undulator beamline in NewSUBARU. It was confirmed that the spatial coherence length is 1.1 mm using a 10-µm-wide slit in the Young's double slit experiment. A 25-nm half pitch (hp) resist pattern was successfully replicated by extreme ultraviolet interference lithography (EUV-IL) utilizing a two-window transmission grating pattern of a 50-nm line and space (L/S). For the replication of a 20-nm L/S resist pattern by EUV-IL, we contrived a fabrication process that is suitable for a transmission grating pattern of 40-nm L/S and smaller. Employing a hard-mask process with a silicon dioxide (SiO2) layer on a tantalum–nitride (TaN) layer in the fabrication of a two-window transmission grating, we successfully achieved five times larger dry-etch selectivity in comparison with a non-hard-mask process. As a result, we confirmed the ability to apply this process to a 40-nm hp grating.
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