A method for preparing self-traceable grating reference material with precise shortening of pitch value

Abstract

The present invention relates to a preparation method of self-traceable grating standard substance that accurately shortens the pitch value. The method is based on laser convergence atomic deposition technology and soft X-ray interference lithography technology, and prepares small-pitch traceable standard substance with a scale of 100 nanometers or less, including The following steps: 1) Obtain a mask plate substrate; 2) Use laser convergent atom deposition technology to deposit and prepare a mask plate on the mask plate substrate; 3) Obtain a photoresist sample, the photoresist sample includes photoresist and the second substrate; using a mask plate, through soft X-ray interference lithography technology, the photoresist is exposed and developed to obtain a photoresist grating structure; 4) transferring the photoresist grating structure to the second substrate On, obtain the self-traceable grating standard substance. Compared with the prior art, the self-traceable grating standard substance prepared by the invention has the advantages of high precision, traceability, accurate shortening of pitch value and the like.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of nano-grating standard substances, in particular to a method for preparing self-traceable grating standard substances which can accurately shorten the pitch value. Background technique [0002] With the continuous advancement of nanotechnology, the feature size of devices has entered the nanometer level, the uncertainty in the manufacturing process has increased significantly, and the impact of processing errors on device performance is also increasing. Nanometrics is the basis for measuring and characterizing nanoscale devices. It plays an important role in the field of process control and quality management in the nanomanufacturing process. It is an unavoidable key science and technology in the fields of MEMS, ultra-precision machining, nanomedicine, and nanobiology. question. Nanometering is the primary prerequisite for realizing accurate and reliable measurements at the nanometer scale. The difficulty lies in n...

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[0004] In the preparation method of standard substances, traditional photolithography technology can prepare large-area grating standard substances, but its grating pitch is limited by the wavelength of visible light used in lithography, and its minimum pitch value is on the order of 200nm; electron beam etching technology The pitch of prepared grating standard materials can be in the scale of hundreds of nanometers to tens of nanometers, but limited by the single-field exposure area of ​​the etching equipment, multi-field splicing is usually used for small-pitch and large-area grating standard materials, which is difficult Meet the requirements of uniformity and traceability; multi-layer film grating technology can also prepare dozens of nanometer-scale standard substances, but due to the constraints of coating conditions in the preparation technology, the thickness of the film layer will drift with the increase in the number of coating layers. Usually the obtained grating small structural area

More importantly, although the pitch value of the standard substance prepared by the preparation method in the first category can be in the scale of hundreds of nanometers and tens of nanometers, because the preparation process does not have traceability, in order to ensure the traceability of the quantity value to the definition of the meter unit It needs to be calibrated by the measuring instruments of the national metrology institution, resulting in a long traceability chain and a large uncertainty. For example, VLSI Standards company’s standard material with a pitch value of 100nm (nominal pitch value 100nm±2nm), its uncertainty is 1nm

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