character projection e-beam lithography for wafer level
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Uwe Hübner, Mario Ziegler, Thomas G. Mayerhöfer, Sophie Patze, Richard Knipper, Dana Cialla-May, Karina Weber, Juergen Popp
Character projection e-beam lithography for wafer level nano-fabrication
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Outline
• Introduction
• The write time issue of the electron beam lithography
• Nanodevices on waferscale: E-beam lithography with Character Projection as enabler
• Write time benefit • Line with control and proximity correction • Flexibility
• Summary
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Introduction
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The IPHT building on the Beutenberg Campus in Jena (Thuringia)
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PHOTONICS FOR LIFE fr
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Key function between photonis, life and environmental
sciences as well as medicine
The main research fields of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT)
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Key Figures:
Employees: 330
Including Doctoral Candidates: 100
Publications/Year : ca. 200
General Budget: ca. 21 Mio. €
Incl. Project Funding: ca. 11 Mio. €
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PHOTONICS FOR LIFE fr
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• Optical fiber technology
The basic technologys of the Leibniz IPHT
• Micro- and nanotechnology
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Infrastruktur Faser
Optical fiber technology
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characterization Fiber probe for medical diagnostics
Optical Fibres for Biophotonics
Material development and preform production
Fiber drawing
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The cleanroom Cleanroom
700m² ISO-class 4 (on 2 floors) 4” wafer size (up to 6”)
Lithography Electron beam lithography Optical lithography
Wafer stepper, Mask aligner, Laser writer
Thin film techniques Evaporation, Sputtering, CVD, ALD
(atomic layer deposition) Metals: Gold, Silver, Alu, Ti, Nb, Cr, … Dielectrica: SiO2, Al2O3, Si3N4, TiO2, …
Patterning: Plasma etching (RIE, IBE, RIBE, ICP) Wet etching Lift-Off
Inspection: SEM AFM
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The cleanroom
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The IPHT building on the Beutenberg Campus in Jena (Thuringia)
Cleanroom
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The role of the microfabrication at the IPHT
• Plasmonic substrates for surface enhanced spectroscopy
• Microfluidic devices • Micro optical devices, optical gratings and planar
waveguides
• Radiation detectors (Bolometer, THz-imaging) • IR-sensors • SQUID-systems (ultrasensitive magnet field devices)
• Fiber and • Fiber-endface patterning
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Introduction
• For routine use in our labs and for applications: Sufficient number of test objects, chips etc. for daily use
Need of wafer level fabrication
(Large pattern areas with a few million nanostructures per mm²)
• For basic research: Large number of different concepts and often with frequently changing layouts
Need of flexible nanotechnology
E-beam lithography High pattern resolution, flexible Time-consuming serial writing method
Plasmonic devices/metamaterials = subwavelenght pattern
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The write time issue of the electron beam lithography
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• High resolution
• nm-size beam diameter
• Pattern dimension << 100 nm
• Time-consuming
• Serial writing method: Writing time ~ “Shot number”
(rectangular) Shaped beam
Fracturing in rectangular shots
Shot number ~ Degree of the edge decomposition
Write time issue of the electron beam lithography
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Variable shaped beam (VSB)
Gaussian beam (GB)
Variable shaped beam with Character-Projection (CP)
Slow Very fast Fast
Write mode Write speed
Aperture Angular aperture
Aperture stage with stencils (characters)
Serial Serial Quasi-parallel
Flexible: Combinations of VSB- and CP-mode
16 100.000 Time factor 100 1
2.5 x 2.5 µm²
Write time issue of the electron beam lithography
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E-beam lithography with Character Projection as enabler:
Nanodevices on wafer level
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Vistec* SB350 OS • Principle: Variable shaped beam, • Beam energy: 50 keV, • Resolution: 65 nm node, • Wafer size: up to 300 mm • Location: Cleanroom IOF Jena,
sharing IAP, IOF and IPHT
* Vistec Electron Beam GmbH Jena
Character aperture stage
Multi-stencil wafer with characters
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E-beam lithography: SB350OS with Character Projection (CP)
Courtesy of IOF Jena
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SB350 OS with CP: > 500 types of characters
U. Hübner et al., Proc. SPIE 9231, 30th EMLC, 92310E (2014)
A selection out of the > 500 types of characters (the pictures show realized structures)
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Linear and 2D gratings (pitch down to 100 nm)
Sophisticated nano-optical pattern (Feature size down to 100 nm)
Circular dots and dot gratings (Diameters from 120 nm up to 5 µm)
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E-beam lithography with Character Projection as enabler:
Write time benefit
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• 6” NIL-master: 10 x 10 cm² 1d-grating
150 mm Si Wafer with 10 x 10 cm² grating area (pitch 200 nm)
Gaußbeam-tool: 10 month*
SB350 in VSB-mode: 2 weeks
SB350 in CP-mode: 12 h
SB350 OS with CP: Write time benefit
Writing time
21 *estimated for a SEM with write unit, beam current 100pA, step size 10 nm, dose 400 µC/cm²
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4“ Quartz-wafer with ~ 550 mm² nanogratings for SERS
(2D-gratings, Pitch: 250 nm)
SB350 OS with CP: Write time benefit
Gaußbeam-tool: 86 days*
SB350 in VSB-mode: 60 h
SB350 in CP-mode: 3 h
Writing time
*estimated for a SEM with write unit, beam current 100pA, step size 10 nm, dose 400 µC/cm²
• 2d-Quartz-gratings as template for SERS-substrates
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• Gold-bowtie-gratings as template for SERS
4“ (100 mm) Si wafer with 15 hexagonal Bowtie-gratings
(each 1 x 1 cm², pitch 400 nm, lift-off-process, Gold on Si)
Writing time
Total grating area: 15 cm²
VSB-mode: 17 days
CP-mode: 3,3 h 4,5 cm²/h
SB350 OS with CP: Write time benefit
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E-beam lithography with Character Projection as enabler:
High quality – line with control and proximity correction
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SB350 OS with CP: Line-width-control and proximity-correction
One character
• Electron dose based line-width control
The SEM-pictures show the line-width control by changing the exposure dose (negative resist).
Lower dose Higher dose
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All patterns which are included in the hard coded character will get the same electron dose.
• Short range dose correction
SB350 OS with CP: Line-width-control and proximity-correction
Character layout Lifted gold dots
Geometrical pre-corrected character layouts
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All patterns which are included in the hard coded character will get the same electron dose.
• Long range dose correction
Schematic dose distribution on a grating edge (Colors = different dose-values)
2,5 µm
SB350 OS with CP: Line-width-control and proximity-correction
Proximity-corrected exposure
Non-corrected
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E-beam lithography with Character Projection as enabler:
High flexibility: Combination of VSB- and CP-mode
Mix of different technologies
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• NIL-master: 6” wafer scale 1d-grating
150 mm Si Wafer with 23 cm² grating area (pitch 200 nm) SB350 in VSB-mode: 20 days * SB350 in CP-mode: 5 h
SB350 OS with CP: Flexibility
Writing time
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3 different types of characters
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10 nm SiO2
50 nm Au
Si-wafer
30-50 nm Slit
1 mm Membrane
Si3N4 - membrane
Nano-perforated, 40 nm thick SiN membrane
SB350 OS with CP: Combination with MEMS-technology
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31 SEM-pictures of the nano-perforated SEIRA-substrates (tilt 25°)
SB350 OS with CP: Combination with MEMS-technology
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Summary
• CP + VSB e-beam technology
Strong reduction of writing time
Top-down nanofabrication on wafer level
• Combination of waferscale nanopatterning with MEMS methods
Great potential by mixing different technologies
• Open for cooperation
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Acknowledgement
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IPHT: Cleanroom-team
IOF: U. D. Zeitner
Vistec: M. Banasch
Illustrations: Burkhard
Financial support: Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF), State of Thuringia and EU (EFRE)