David,
You can't produce EUV with anything made of solid matter. Even DUV and Fluorine lasers (157nm) get absorbed way too enthusiastically. This is why Fluorine litho sank on arrival, and the industry stayed on 193nm. Switching to 157nm was requiring a change of material technology comparable to EUV, but long term gains were not in 157nm's favour.
Both 157nm and EUV can make 25nm feature sizes, but that's only a small increment over 30-35 nm what a typical DUV system can do with immersion. The industry still went EUV because tech transition with it would ease future transition to Xray litho, which would also rely on similar resist chemistry and vacuum.
On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 8:39 PM David Lanzendörfer leviathan@libresilicon.com wrote:
Hi What would be nice, would be EUV LEDs, so that we can have even better feature sizes. If we already go customized, why not directly EUV? :-)
-lev
On Monday, 24 February 2020 1:38:11 AM HKT Pavel Nikulin wrote:
There are a number of microled startups that are still labs scale. Growing an AlInGaN instead of GaN + MQW might be a challenge, or it might be not. The cost of custom run will from them will be interesting to know.
On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 8:25 PM David Lanzendörfer
leviathan@libresilicon.com wrote:
Hi I like the idea. Some researchers apparently have already tried it out and it's feasible: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.1942636?ver=pdfcov&journalCo... =apl
If a UV microLED matrix is less expensive than a DMD device, I certainly will go for it!
Thanks so much for the tip!
Do you have any suggestions on components suitable for that task?
Cheers -lev
On Monday, 24 February 2020 1:18:52 AM HKT Pavel Nikulin wrote:
Few ideas from me,
If you are going to stick with 360nm light for now, regular fused silica should not absorbing it that much. DUV litho needs 200w+ light sources because their optics is way more massive and more complex.
Have you thought of making something like a microled matrix? Getting 50w from it onto the wafer with liquid cooling, and simple optics should be real.
On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 8:06 PM Staf Verhaegen staf@fibraservi.eu
wrote:
David Lanzendörfer schreef op ma 24-02-2020 om 00:42 [+0800]:
Hi
I'm apparently not the first one with the idea to use a DMD chip and an UV
light source for exposure:
<https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Layout-for-UV-based-DMD-system-I f-th e-illumination-is-in-the-UV-spectrum-then-it-must_fig4_50395785>https ://w ww.researchgate.net/figure/Layout-for-UV-based-DMD-system-If-the-illu mina tion-is-in-the-UV-spectrum-then-it-must_fig4_50395785>
Also Sam Zeloof has made his own chip with a DLP projector: http://sam.zeloof.xyz/maskless-photolithography/
greets, Staf.
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