- Author
- Year
- 2017
- host editors
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C.K. Hohle
- Title
- Photochemical conversion of tin-oxo cage compounds studied using hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
- Event
- SPIE Advanced Lithography
- Book/source title
- Advances in Patterning Materials and Processes XXXIV
- Book/source subtitle
- 27 February–2 March 2017, San Jose, California, United States
- Number of pages
- 10
- Publisher
- Bellingham, WA: SPIE
- ISBN
- 9781510607439
- Series
- Proceedings of SPIE, 0277-786X, 10146
- Document type
- Conference contribution
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science (FNWI)
- Institute
- Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS)
- Abstract
-
Several metal-containing molecular inorganic materials are currently considered as photoresists for extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL). This is primarily due to their high EUV absorption cross section and small building block size, properties which potentially allow both high sensitivity and resolution as well as low line-edge roughness. The photochemical reaction mechanisms that allow these kinds of materials to function as photoresists, however, are still poorly understood. As a step in this direction, we here discuss photochemical reactions upon deep UV (DUV) irradiation of a model negative-tone EUV photoresist material, namely the well-defined molecular tin-oxo cage compound [(SnR)12O14(OH)6]X2 (R = organic group; X = anion) which is spin coated to thin layers of 20 nm. The core electronic structure (Sn 3d, O 1s and C 1s) of fresh and DUV exposed films were then investigated using synchrotron radiationbased hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES). This method provides information about the structure and chemical state of the respective atoms in the material. We performed a comparative HAXPES study of the composition of the tin-oxo cage compound [(SnR)12O14(OH)6](OH)2, either fresh directly after spin-coated vs. DUV-exposed materials under either ambient condition or under a dry N2 atmosphere. Different chemical oxidation states and concentrations of atoms and atom types in the fresh and exposed films were found. We further found that the chemistry resulting from exposure in air and N2 is strikingly different, clearly illustrating the influence of film-gas interactions on the (photo)chemical processes that eventually determine the photoresist. Finally, a mechanistic hypothesis for the basic DUV photoreactions in molecular tin-oxo cages is proposed.
- URL
- go to publisher's site
- Language
- English
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/c2c88906-e320-4940-99f3-ae91345aa091
- Downloads
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