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ACS MACRO LETTERS
Volume 8, Issue 9, Pages 1122-1127Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00353
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- New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) in Japan under the EIDEC project
- Ogasawara Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Engineering
- JSPS KAKENHI [17H03113, P18H05482]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17H03113] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Further development of next-generation block copolymer (BCP) lithography processes is contingent on comprehensive studies of the ordering dynamics of high-chi BCPs that can form sub-10 nm features on thin films. However, quantitative analyses of the degree of ordering on the surface and cross sections of thin films have been difficult to execute. To tackle this challenge, we employ a perpendicular lamella-forming high-chi BCP, poly(polyhedral oligomeric silsesquixone-block-2,2,2-trifluoroethyl methacrylate) (PMAPOSS-b-PTFEMA), and reveal that the high-chi PMAPOSS-b-PTFEMA requires three times the activation energy (E-a) compared to that of poly(styrene-block-methyl methacrylate) (PS-b-PMMA) for defect annihilation, at E-a = 2600 +/- 420 kJ mol(-1), and a transition from a fast ordering regime with a growth exponent of Phi = 0.30 at lower orientational order parameters (psi(2) < 0.36) to a slow ordering regime with Phi < 0.05 at psi(2) > 0.36, where well-aligned lamellae restrict defect annihilations to enthalpically unfavorable glide mechanisms that require BCP intermixing.
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