Abstract
There is a need to design new materials to achieve smaller pitches and reduced interfacial widths for block copolymer (BCP) lithography. One option is the use of blends, where the addition of a homopolymer which selectively associates to one of the blocks results in the increase in the Flory–Huggins interaction parameter (χ) between the two phases. In order to explore the effect of this approach on the interfacial width between BCP components, poly(vinylphenol) (PVPH) was added to polystyrene-b-poly(methyl methacrylate) (PS-b-PMMA). Multilayers of this blend were characterized using resonant soft X-ray reflectivity (RSoXR), a measurement that allows the contrast between PS, PMMA, and PVPH to be selectively tuned by varying the beam energy. RSoXR measurements confirmed that PVPH is uniformly distributed throughout the PMMA block. The interfacial width of the block was reduced by 20% upon the addition of a mass fraction of 8% PVPH. The interfacial width of homopolymer bilayers was also investigated in order...
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