Extreme UV Resist Exhibiting Synergism between Chemical and Physical Crosslinking Mechanisms

Carbon-fluorine bonds in fluorinated molecules can undergo homolytic cleavage reactions when electrons are injected, and the resulting radicals combine to form network structures characterized by reduced solubility. This crosslinking chemistry suggests a new category of patterning materials that fun...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1999. - 39(2023), 9 vom: 07. März, Seite 3462-3470
1. Verfasser: Ku, Yejin (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Kim, KangHyun, Oh, Hyun-Taek, Park, Byeong-Gyu, Lee, Sangsul, Lee, Jin-Kyun, Koh, Chawon, Nishi, Tsunehiro, Kim, Hyun-Woo
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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520 |a Carbon-fluorine bonds in fluorinated molecules can undergo homolytic cleavage reactions when electrons are injected, and the resulting radicals combine to form network structures characterized by reduced solubility. This crosslinking chemistry suggests a new category of patterning materials that function under electron beam (e-beam) and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithographic conditions. Although this chemistry enables the production of 50 nm or smaller-sized features of simple fluoroalkylated polymers, it is limited by the need for relatively large amounts of irradiation energy to achieve required solubility changes. Therefore, this study was undertaken to devise a sensitivity-enhancing strategy based on a synergistic combination of radical crosslinking and hydrogen-bonding interactions between highly fluoroalkylated copolymers. An alternating copolymer was synthesized using tert-butoxystyrene and a fluoroalkylated maleimide, the former of which produces active hydrogens through catalytic acidolysis reactions. When the polymer was blended with a catalytic amount of a photoacid generator and subjected to lithographic patterning tests under e-beam and EUV irradiation, the deprotection reactions of tert-butoxy moieties proceeded at room temperature and led to a solubility decrease. We presume the small number of hydroxyl moieties produced formed an intermolecular hydrogen-bonding network, which acted synergistically with the covalent crosslinks generated by C-F bonds. When 30 nm features of copolymer thin films were fabricated by EUV lithography, sensitivity was improved by 25-34% without significant deterioration of pattern quality, especially line-edge roughness. These results demonstrate that EUV resists with improved patterning capabilities can be achieved by combining catalytic acidolysis reactions and noncatalytic crosslinking chemistry 
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700 1 |a Lee, Sangsul  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Lee, Jin-Kyun  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Koh, Chawon  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Nishi, Tsunehiro  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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