Extreme Ultra Violet - Interference lithography (temporarily unavailable)

Lithography & Patterning (Synchrotron-based lithography)

Due to the upcoming SLS 2.0 upgrade this technique will be unavailable at PSI until further notice.

EUV-IL uses a spatially coherent beam from the synchrotron with a variable wavelength from 16 nm down to 3 nm (usually operated at 13.5 wavelength where the synchrotron is capable of providing fully coherent illumination). The beam eventually reaches the mask which comprises two or more diffractive gratings fabricated on a silicon nitride membrane. The beams through these gratings form an interference pattern on a photosensitive material previously spin-coated onto a substrate. The tool can provide extremely high resolution patterning for periodic structures. Unlike electron beam lithography which is a direct write technique, EUV-IL can provide very high throughput and it does not suffer from proximity effects. In addition, it is insensitive to charging and therefore insulating substrates are in principle enabled. One or two dimensional patterns are easily obtained by the use of two or multiple beams respectively. In the simple two-beam case, the fringe period is equal to half of the period of the grating on the mask (for first order diffraction). EUV-IL can have various applications: nanoimprint stamps, fluidic confinement structures, plasmonics and metamaterials, polymer grafting, biomaterials, catalysis, templated assembly, cell growth templates, nanomagnetism, Fresnel zone plates, resist evaluation etc.

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PSI
Switzerland
PSI
Switzerland
EUV-IL - XIL-II Beamline @ Swiss Light Source Synchrotron
Interference lithography for high resolution periodic structures
3 x 1015 photons / s / 4%BW / 0.4 A, spot size up to 5x5 mm2
Fixed at 13.5 nm usually (energy range 70-500 eV)
Current resolution limit <7nm (not for routine exposures)
Exposure area up to 80x80 mm2 with field stitching, mask to sample distance ~100 μm to several mm
4" wafers and chips, normally 1x1 or 2x2 mm2
High vacuum chamber
Flux measurement before exposures
Spin-coater, wet-bench, hot-plates, microscope, developer, optical thickness measurement
EURONANOLAB
France
EUV-IL at EURONANOLAB - MMI