Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages 505-511Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am1010805
Keywords
molecular layer deposition (MLD); organic film; acid-labile group; photoresist; polyurea
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- Intel Corporation
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Photoresist materials comprise one,of the main challenges faced by lithography to meet the requirements of electronic device size scaling. Here we report for the first time the use of molecular layer deposition (MLD) to produce photo resist materials with controllable placement of functional moieties. Polyurea resists films are deposited by MLD using urea coupling reactions between 1,4-phenylene diisocyanate, (PDIC) and ethylenediamine (ED) or 2,2'-(propane-2,2-diylbis(oxy))diethanamine (PDDE) monomers in a layer-by-layer fashion with a linear growth rate, allowing acid-labile groups to be incorporated into the film at well-controlled positions. The films are deposited with stoichiometric compositions and have highly uniform surface morphology as investigated using atomic force microscopy. We show that acid treatment can cleave the backbone of the polyurea film at positions where the acid-labile groups are embedded. We further show that after soaking the polyurea film with photoacid generator (PAG), it acts as a photoresist material and we present several UV patterning demonstrations. This approach presents a new way to make molecularly designed resist films for lithography.
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