Noise reduction in the recording of holographic masks in photoresist

摘要

Abstract: The lithography of gratings or structures using photoresist holographic masks is very critical, in particular when high selectivity etching processes were employed. In this paper we study the effect of the mask profile and of the phase perturbations during the holographic exposure in the noise of the photoresist masks. It is shown that the use of appropriate conditions of development and exposure may reduce significantly this noise allowing the recording of high aspect ratio structures and the use of selective deposition techniques.!7