| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2020 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Functional Nanomaterials 2020: Translating Innovation into Pioneering Technologies
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| Presentation Title |
Vapor-phase Infiltration Synthesis of Organic-inorganic Hybrid Nanocomposite Resists for Next Generation Lithography |
| Author(s) |
Nikhil Tiwale, Ashwanth Subramanian, Kim Kisslinger, Ming Lu, Jiyoung Kim, Aaron Stein, Chang-Yong Nam |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Chang-Yong Nam |
| Abstract Scope |
Organic-inorganic hybrid resists with high etch resistance and readily variable composition and exposure characteristics are critical for advanced lithography, but typically available hybrid resists are chemically synthesized and negative-tone. Here we have developed a new hybrid resist generation scheme exploiting vapor-phase inorganic infiltration into commonly available organic resist thin films via infiltration synthesis, an organic-inorganic hybridization method derived from atomic layer deposition (ALD). Electron lithography study of a model hybrid resist system consisting of AlOx-infiltrated poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) not only demonstrates fully controllable electron beam exposure characteristics and etch resistance, but also extremely high Si etch selectivity far exceeding known commercial positive-tone resists, enabling Si nanostructures with resolution ~30 nm and aspect ratio up to ~17. The easy implementabilility, combined with versatile ex-situ control of resist characteristics, makes this hybrid resist synthesis approach uniquely suited for addressing the resist performance required for advanced nanolithography techniques, such as extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: Supplemental Proceedings volume |