Abstract
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) pellicles must have an EUV reflectance (EUVR) below 0.04% to prevent the reduction of critical dimension (CD). However, pellicle wrinkles cause localized CD variation by locally amplifying the EUVR. This study demonstrates that wrinkles can increase the pellicle's EUVR by approximately four times, and the CD drop depends on the relative position of the reflected light from the wrinkle to the 0th- or 1st-order diffracted light. The CD decreases by 6 nm. Therefore, even if the pellicle satisfies the requirement for the EUVR, we need to tightly control the generation of wrinkles to suppress CD variation during the entire exposure process.
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