Experimental evaluation of particulate contamination on backside of EUV reticle

Kazuya Ota; Takao Taguchi; Mitsuaki Amemiya; Naosuke Nishimura; Osamu Suga

doi:10.1117/12.812952

18 March 2009 Experimental evaluation of particulate contamination on backside of EUV reticle

Kazuya Ota, Takao Taguchi, Mitsuaki Amemiya, Naosuke Nishimura, Osamu Suga

Proceedings Volume 7271, Alternative Lithographic Technologies; 72713M (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.812952
Event: SPIE Advanced Lithography, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

"Reticle protection during storage, handling and use" is one of the critical issues of EUV lithography because no practical pellicle has been found for EUV reticles as yet. The front surface of an EUV reticle has to be protected from particles larger than 20-30 nm to maintain the image quality projected on the wafer plane, and the backside also has to be protected to maintain the flatness of the reticle chucked on an electrostatic chuck (ESC). In this paper, we are focusing on particles on the backside of a reticle. If a particle lies between a reticle and a chuck, it has a strong impact on the flatness of the reticle, and the wafer overlay is degraded by out-of-plane distortion (OPD) and in-plane distortion (IPD) caused by the particle. From this point of view, we need to know the maximum allowable size of particles on the backside of a reticle. MIRAI-Selete introduced an experimental setup that can measure the flatness of the chucked reticle in a vacuum. Two electrostatic chucks were alternately installed in the vacuum chamber of Mask Protection Engineering Tool (MPE Tool), a reticle is automatically carried from a reticle pod to the chuck in the tool. The flatness of the reticle can be measured by an interferometer through the viewport underneath the chamber. We report results of experimental evaluation about the relationship between the reticle OPD and the initial size of particles and mention the maximum allowable size of particles between a reticle and a chuck.

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Kazuya Ota, Takao Taguchi, Mitsuaki Amemiya, Naosuke Nishimura, and Osamu Suga "Experimental evaluation of particulate contamination on backside of EUV reticle", Proc. SPIE 7271, Alternative Lithographic Technologies, 72713M (18 March 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.812952

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