Photoetching mask plate with nanoscale graphical size and preparation method thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of semiconductor micro-nano processing, and particularly relates to a photoetching mask plate with nanoscale graphical dimensions and a preparation method thereof.
Background
The authoritative data of the '2020-2026 China mask industry operation current situation and development prospect analysis report' published by the intelligent research shows that the global lithographic mask market scale for semiconductors reaches 41 hundred million dollars in 2019, wherein the global demand of the China mask accounts for 56%, the U.S. Funix and Japanese letterpress and DNP printing accounts for 82% of the global market share in the global market, and the mask product seriously depends on foreign manufacturers and has low localization rate. Although the development of the semiconductor industry in China began late, china has become the largest semiconductor consumer world worldwide by virtue of the tremendous market volume and production population. The photoetching mask is a key link of the whole semiconductor industry, and the semiconductor industry can keep 20% -30% growth in the next years according to the predicted data of CSIA, saidi intelligent library, SEMI and other authoritative institutions along with the increase of the investment of the semiconductor industry in China. With the great development of the semiconductor industry, the demand for semiconductor masks has also exploded.
The traditional semiconductor mask plate is divided into a master plate and a sub plate, wherein the master plate is prepared by a laser direct writing mode, the production efficiency is low, the sub plate is obtained by copying the master plate through a photoetching process, the preparation process is complex, the preparation equipment is expensive, the equipment required for preparing the nano-scale line width mask plate is more advanced, the resolution requirement is higher, the cost is relatively high, and the preparation efficiency is low. This series of problems has plagued further developments throughout the industry.
The Chinese patent with publication number CN 105225279 discloses a mask plate, a preparation method and a patterning method thereof, wherein the mask plate comprises a mask substrate, a plurality of nano-protrusions formed on the mask substrate, a space between the nano-protrusions and a shielding layer covering the surfaces of the nano-protrusions. The nano-bump has the effects of reflection and reflection reduction and is arranged on the mask substrate, but the mask layer is not patterned, and a chip structure with a nano-level line width cannot be prepared. And the nano-bump has limited effect on the anti-reflection of ultraviolet light.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the technical problems, the invention aims to provide the photoetching mask plate with the nanoscale graphical size and the preparation method thereof, the preparation is carried out in a nano imprinting mode, the preparation cost is low, the line width of the minimum feature size (minimum CD size) of the mask plate graphical can reach nanoscale, and the mask plate graphical mask plate can be used for preparing chip structures with nanoscale line widths. And secondly, a photonic crystal anti-reflection layer is arranged on the exposure surface, so that the anti-reflection property of ultraviolet light can be improved, the exposure time is reduced in the photoetching process, the productivity is improved, the service life of an ultraviolet lamp part is prolonged, the reflection of ultraviolet light is reduced, and the ultraviolet light reflection type ultraviolet light lithography device has certain help to the light path uniformity of incident ultraviolet light. .
The technical scheme of the invention is as follows:
The utility model provides a photoetching mask version with nanoscale patterning size, includes the transparent substrate that has first surface and second surface, the first surface of transparent substrate is provided with the mask layer, the mask layer is provided with nanoscale patterning structure, the second surface of transparent substrate is provided with the photonic crystal anti-reflection layer.
In the preferred technical scheme, the mask layer is coated on the transparent substrate by utilizing a sputtering or electron beam evaporation process, the mask layer is made of one or more of a metal chromium material, a silicon material, a non-transparent aluminum oxide material and an iron oxide material, and the thickness of the mask layer is 100-200nm.
In a preferred technical scheme, a passivation layer is arranged on the mask layer, and the passivation layer is made of one or more of transparent aluminum oxide material, silicon nitride material and silicon oxide material.
In a preferred technical scheme, the thickness of the passivation layer is an odd number times of 1/4 wavelength of incident ultraviolet light.
In the preferred technical scheme, the nanoscale patterned structure of the mask layer and the photonic crystal anti-reflection layer are obtained by etching after imprinting by a nano imprinting template.
In the preferred technical scheme, the nano structure of the photonic crystal anti-reflection layer is a micro-lens structure arranged in an array, the radian of the micro-lens is 0.5-3 rad, and the height of the micro-lens is 150-400 nm.
The invention also discloses a preparation method of the photoetching mask plate with the nanoscale imaging size, which comprises the following steps:
s01, coating a mask layer on the first surface of the transparent substrate by utilizing a sputtering or electron beam evaporation process;
S02, setting a nanoscale graphical structure on the mask layer;
And S03, arranging a photonic crystal anti-reflection layer on the second surface of the transparent substrate.
In a preferred technical scheme, the method for setting the nanoscale patterned structure on the mask layer in the step S02 includes:
s21, coating UV photosensitive adhesive on the surface of the mask layer;
s22, imprinting the nano imprinting template with the patterned structure on the UV photosensitive adhesive, solidifying and forming by UV light irradiation, demolding and removing the nano imprinting template;
and S23, etching a corresponding patterned structure in a region without glue blocking through an ICP etching process, and removing the glue to form a mask layer with a nanoscale patterned structure.
In a preferred technical scheme, the manufacturing method of the photonic crystal anti-reflection layer in the step S03 comprises the following steps:
S31, coating UV photosensitive adhesive on the second surface of the transparent substrate;
S32, imprinting the nano imprinting template with the photonic crystal structure on the UV photosensitive adhesive, solidifying and forming by UV light irradiation, demolding and removing the nano imprinting template;
And S33, etching a corresponding photonic crystal structure in the area without glue blocking through an ICP etching process, and removing glue to form a photonic crystal anti-reflection layer.
In the preferred technical scheme, the nano structure of the photonic crystal anti-reflection layer is a micro-lens structure arranged in an array, the radian of the micro-lens is 0.5-3 rad, and the height of the micro-lens is 150-400 nm.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that:
1. The method adopts the nano-imprinting mode for preparation, has low manufacturing cost, can achieve the nano-scale of the line width of the minimum feature size (the minimum CD size) of the mask plate patterning, and can be used for preparing the chip structure with the nano-scale line width. And secondly, a photonic crystal anti-reflection layer is arranged on the exposure surface, so that the anti-reflection property of ultraviolet light can be improved, the exposure time is reduced in the photoetching process, the productivity is improved, the service life of an ultraviolet lamp part is prolonged, the reflection of ultraviolet light is reduced, and the ultraviolet light reflection type ultraviolet light lithography device has certain help to the light path uniformity of incident ultraviolet light. The method has simple process and is suitable for large-scale batch production, and can be widely applied to the field of photoetching process processing of semiconductor nano-scale chip structures and other nano-scale line width optical mask fields.
2. In addition, the contact surface or the approaching surface of the photoresist is protected by a passivation layer with high compactness and high hardness, so that the scratch resistance of the photomask can be improved, the service life of the photomask is greatly prolonged, and the production cost is reduced.
Drawings
The invention is further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples:
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a lithographic reticle with nanoscale patterning dimensions according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the anti-reflection layer of the photonic crystal of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of a mask layer for nano-imprinting to produce a nano-scale patterned structure according to the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the nano-imprint prepared photonic crystal anti-reflection layer of the present invention.
Detailed Description
The objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent by the following detailed description of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the description is only illustrative and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. In addition, in the following description, descriptions of well-known structures and techniques are omitted so as not to unnecessarily obscure the present invention.
Examples:
as shown in fig. 1, a lithography mask plate with a nanoscale patterning size is prepared by adopting a nanoimprint method to prepare a patterning mask layer and a photonic crystal anti-reflection layer, the line width of the minimum feature size (minimum CD size) of the mask plate patterning can reach nanoscale, the mask plate patterning mask plate comprises a transparent substrate 4 with a first surface and a second surface, the first surface (contact surface or approaching surface of photoresist) of the transparent substrate 4 is provided with a mask layer 3, the mask layer is provided with a nanoscale patterning structure 5, and the second surface of the transparent substrate 4 is provided with a photonic crystal anti-reflection layer 9.
The transparent substrate 4 is made of one of transparent quartz material, transparent soda glass material and transparent sapphire single crystal material. The thickness of the transparent substrate ranges from 50 um to 2000 um.
The nanoscale patterned structure 5 of the mask layer 3 and the photonic crystal anti-reflection layer 9 are obtained by etching after imprinting by a nano imprinting template.
The thickness of the mask layer 3 ranges from 100 nm to 200nm, and the nano patterned structure 5 of the mask layer 3 can be provided with different patterned mask structures according to different mask requirements.
In a preferred embodiment, the patterned mask layer can also be protected by a passivation layer, the passivation layer is made of one of transparent aluminum oxide material, silicon nitride material and silicon oxide material which are compact in material and high in hardness, the passivation layer has an anti-scratch effect, the scratch resistance of a contact surface or a near surface of the photoresist of the mask can be improved, the thickness of the passivation layer is an odd multiple of 1/4 wavelength lambda of incident ultraviolet light, the thickness is more beneficial to avoiding reflection of the ultraviolet light, and the passivation layer can be prepared by sputtering or an electron beam evaporation process.
As shown in FIG. 2, the nano structure of the photonic crystal anti-reflection layer is a micro-lens 10 structure with the diameter d of 200-800 nm in array arrangement, the arrangement period setting range can be 400-1000 nm, the radian range of the micro-lens 10 can be 0.5-3 rad, and the height h of the micro-lens 10 is 150-400 nm.
The preparation method of the photoetching mask plate with the nanoscale patterning size comprises two steps, namely, preparing a mask layer with a nano patterning structure by nano imprinting, and preparing a photonic crystal anti-reflection layer by nano imprinting.
The method specifically comprises the following steps:
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a mask layer for preparing a nano patterned structure by nano imprinting, which comprises the following specific steps:
(1) A transparent material is selected as a transparent substrate 4 of a mask, the transparent substrate 4 is one of a transparent quartz material, a transparent soda glass material and a transparent sapphire single crystal material, and the thickness range of the transparent substrate 4 is 50-2000um thick.
In a preferred embodiment, the transparent substrate 4 is a transparent sapphire single crystal material, and has a thickness of 500um.
(2) And (3) coating a mask layer 3 on the upper surface (namely, a photoresist contact surface or a photoresist approaching surface) of the transparent substrate 4 by utilizing one of sputtering or electron beam evaporation technology, wherein the mask layer 3 is made of one of a metal chromium material, a silicon material, a non-transparent aluminum oxide material and an iron oxide material, and the thickness of the mask layer 3 ranges from 100 nm to 200 nm.
In a preferred embodiment, the mask layer 3 is made of a mixture of silicon material and non-transparent aluminum oxide material, and has a thickness of 150um.
(3) The mask layer 3 is required to prepare different patterned mask structures according to different mask requirements, firstly, UV photoresist 2 is coated on the surface of the mask layer 3, then, a nano-imprint template 1 with a patterned structure is used for imprinting 21 on the UV photoresist 2, the UV photoresist 2 is solidified and molded through UV light irradiation 20, the nano-imprint template 1 is removed by demolding, then, the corresponding patterned structure is etched in a region without the blocking of the UV photoresist 2 by using an ICP etching (inductively coupled plasma etching) process, and finally, the nano-patterned mask structure layer 5 is formed by photoresist removal;
(4) The nano-patterned mask structure layer 5 is protected by a passivation layer 6, the passivation layer 6 is made of one of a transparent aluminum oxide material, a silicon nitride material and a silicon oxide material which are compact in material and high in hardness, the passivation layer 6 has an anti-scratch effect, the scratch resistance of a photoresist contact surface or a near surface of a mask can be improved, the thickness of the passivation layer 6 is an odd number multiple of 1/4 wavelength lambda of incident ultraviolet light, the thickness is more beneficial to avoiding reflection of the ultraviolet light, and the passivation layer 6 can be prepared by a sputtering or electron beam evaporation process.
In a preferred embodiment, the passivation layer 6 is made of transparent alumina material.
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a photonic crystal anti-reflection layer prepared by nanoimprint lithography according to the present invention, and specifically includes the following steps:
(1) Firstly, coating UV photosensitive adhesive 8 on the other surface (namely an ultraviolet exposure surface) of the transparent substrate 4;
(2) Stamping the nano stamping template 7 with a photonic crystal structure on the UV photosensitive glue 8, and solidifying and forming the UV photosensitive glue 8 through UV light irradiation;
(3) Demolding and removing the nano-imprinting template 7;
(4) Then etching a corresponding photonic crystal patterned structure in a region without blocking by the UV photoresist 8 by using an ICP etching process;
(5) Finally photoresist is removed to form the photonic crystal anti-reflection layer 9. Finally, the needed photoetching mask plate with the nanoscale imaging size is manufactured.
The photoetching mask plate manufactured by the method has low manufacturing cost, the line width of the minimum feature size (the minimum CD size) of the mask plate in a graphical way can reach the nanometer level, the light transmission effect on an ultraviolet exposure lamp of a photoetching machine is good, the exposure efficiency is high, the ultraviolet reflection is reduced, the light path is uniform, and the method can be used for preparing chip structures with the nanometer level line width. The method has simple process and is suitable for large-scale batch production, and can be widely applied to the field of photoetching process processing of semiconductor nano-scale chip structures and other nano-scale line width optical mask fields.
It is to be understood that the above-described embodiments of the present invention are merely illustrative of or explanation of the principles of the present invention and are in no way limiting of the invention. Accordingly, any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention. Furthermore, the appended claims are intended to cover all such changes and modifications that fall within the scope and boundary of the appended claims, or equivalents of such scope and boundary.