EP1481286A2 - Objectif de projection refractif dote d'une taille - Google Patents

Objectif de projection refractif dote d'une taille

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EP1481286A2
EP1481286A2 EP03706529A EP03706529A EP1481286A2 EP 1481286 A2 EP1481286 A2 EP 1481286A2 EP 03706529 A EP03706529 A EP 03706529A EP 03706529 A EP03706529 A EP 03706529A EP 1481286 A2 EP1481286 A2 EP 1481286A2
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lens
waist
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projection
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Karl-Heinz Schuster
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Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
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    • GPHYSICS
    • G03PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03FPHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR
    • G03F7/00Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printing surfaces; Materials therefor, e.g. comprising photoresists; Apparatus specially adapted therefor
    • G03F7/70Microphotolithographic exposure; Apparatus therefor
    • G03F7/708Construction of apparatus, e.g. environment aspects, hygiene aspects or materials
    • G03F7/70975Assembly, maintenance, transport or storage of apparatus
    • GPHYSICS
    • G02OPTICS
    • G02BOPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B13/00Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below
    • G02B13/14Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below for use with infrared or ultraviolet radiation
    • G02B13/143Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below for use with infrared or ultraviolet radiation for use with ultraviolet radiation
    • GPHYSICS
    • G03PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03FPHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR
    • G03F7/00Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printing surfaces; Materials therefor, e.g. comprising photoresists; Apparatus specially adapted therefor
    • G03F7/70Microphotolithographic exposure; Apparatus therefor
    • G03F7/70216Mask projection systems
    • G03F7/70241Optical aspects of refractive lens systems, i.e. comprising only refractive elements
    • GPHYSICS
    • G03PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03FPHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR
    • G03F7/00Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printing surfaces; Materials therefor, e.g. comprising photoresists; Apparatus specially adapted therefor
    • G03F7/70Microphotolithographic exposure; Apparatus therefor
    • G03F7/708Construction of apparatus, e.g. environment aspects, hygiene aspects or materials
    • G03F7/7095Materials, e.g. materials for housing, stage or other support having particular properties, e.g. weight, strength, conductivity, thermal expansion coefficient
    • G03F7/70958Optical materials or coatings, e.g. with particular transmittance, reflectance or anti-reflection properties

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  • the invention relates to a pi-projection exposure system with a refralctive projection lens, a refractive projection lens itself and a method for producing ⁇ rdl ⁇ osü ⁇ Murierter components in which a projection treatment with a refralctive projection lens is used.
  • this refractive projection lens all lenses are made of one material, the projection lens having a numerical aperture of greater than 0.7 on the image side.
  • AI refractive prescription lenses which are designed for an exposure wavelength of 248.4 ⁇ m, are known, the lenses of the prescription lenses being made of a material that has a refractive index of 1.50839, such as quartz glass, at the exposure wavelength ,
  • the occurrence of coma can also be minimized.
  • aberrations in particular spherical aberration, associated with a high numerical aperture can be corrected.
  • Such a correction is also possible by providing an asphere in the fourth lens group, provided that the asphere is arranged close to the image plane.
  • a refractive projection objective is known from DE 199 39 038 AI, in which chromatic aberrations are tapered by the combination of two or more types of fluoride crystals.
  • the projection lens shown in FIG. 11, which is designed for the wavelength 157nm, has several aspheres. Calcium fluoride and lithium fluoride are in particular provided for this wavelength.
  • Refactive lens arrangements are known from EP 1 139 138 AI, the lenses used being made of the materials calcium fluoride and quartz glass.
  • An exemplary embodiment is shown in which all lenses consist of calcium fluoride, this lens being designed for an exposure wavelength of 157 nm.
  • the other lens arrangements shown are designed for the exposure wavelength of 193 mn. All lens arrangements shown have a plurality of aspheres.
  • the use of calcium fluoride, for example, in a lens arrangement designed for the exposure wavelength of 193 nm is associated with the disadvantage that this material is more difficult to obtain on the one hand like quartz glass and on the other hand it is also considerably more expensive.
  • the invention has for its object to provide refractive lens arrangements or a projection exposure system for microlithography with a refralctive projection lens with a high numerical aperture and good optical properties.
  • the invention was based on the object of providing refractive lens arrangements for microlithography which are distinguished by low longitudinal color errors with a high numerical aperture.
  • the invention was also based on the object of providing refractive lens arrangements, the manufacture of which is reduced.
  • the lens is said to be particularly suitable for the wavelengths of 157 nanometers and 193 nanometers.
  • the arrangement and design of the lenses are possible even under the complex conditions of a high Mü ⁇ Olithograp e-projection objective measures regarding which result in a significant reduction in longitudinal chromatic aberration for a lens material of a given dispersion, it has proved 'to be advantageous to shift the positive refractive power towards the image in order to reduce the longitudinal color error hold.
  • Negative lenses with a small bundle cross-section must be located on the object side far from the system aperture.
  • the high-quality Petzval koi ⁇ ektur required for such a lens arrangement requires the formation of waists with a negative refractive power.
  • the longitudinal color error can be kept small. It has also proven advantageous to shift positive refractive power towards the image.
  • the arrangement of doublets consisting of a positive lens and a negative lens after the first waist with a large lens diameter of at least 85% of the maximum lens diameter or light bundle diameter gives an optimal correction possibility with regard to all aperture-dependent non-axial image errors without generating longitudinal color errors.
  • the area in front of the system panel and the panel area itself is predestined for the occurrence of longitudinal color errors. Because of this problem, it has proven to be advantageous to arrange doublets in the area in front of and around the system diaphragm, in each of which a positive lens is provided, to which a close partner of reversed refractive power is assigned in the case of similar light-tuft diameters. It has proven to be particularly advantageous to provide doublets that have a total refractive power that is less than 20% of the refractive power between the aperture and the wafer. The outer shape of the doublets resembles a thick, bent meniscus, which has a relatively low refractive index.
  • Figure 1 Projection exposure system for microHthography
  • Figure 2 Refractive projection lens for microlithography for the
  • Exposure wavelength 193nm that with a length of 1340.7 mm has a numerical aperture of 0.8;
  • Figure 3 projection lens for the wavelength 193nm that with an overall length of
  • Length of 1390 mm has a numerical aperture of 0.85;
  • Figure 5 Projection lens for the wavelength of 157 n with an emergence of
  • the basic structure of a projection exposure system 1, which comprises a refractive projection objective 5, is first described with reference to FIG. 1.
  • the projection exposure system 1 has an exposure device 3 which is provided with a device for narrowing the bandwidth.
  • the projection objective 5 comprises a lens arrangement 21 with a system diaphragm 19, an optical axis 7 being defined by the lens arrangement 21.
  • a mask 9 is arranged between the exposure direction 3 and the projection objective 5 and is held in the beam path by means of a mask holder 11.
  • Such masks 9 used in milalithithography have a micrometer to nanometer pattern, which are imaged on the image plane 13 by the projection objective 5 down to a factor of 10, in particular by a factor of 4.
  • a substrate or egg 15 positioned by a substrate holder 17 is held in the image plane 13.
  • the still resolvable basic structures depend on the wavelength of the light used for the exposure and on the numerical aperture of the projection lens 5 and the de factor of the humidification device 3.
  • a maximum achievable resolution of the projection exposure system 1 increases with decreasing wavelength of the light bundle 23 provided by the exposure device 3, by means of which the pattern of the mask 9 is imaged on the wafer 15 by means of the projection objective 5.
  • the refractive lens arrangement 21 shown in FIG. 2 is designed for the exposure length of 193 nanometers and has an image-side numerical aperture of 0.8.
  • This lens arrangement 21 comprises 31 lises, 9 of which have at least one aspherical lens surface. Such Luisen are also called asphere.
  • This lens arrangement 21 can be divided into three lens groups LG1 to LG3.
  • the first lens group LG1 has positive refractive power and comprises the lenses with the areas 2-15.
  • This lens group can in turn be subdivided into an opening group EG1, which has negative refractive power and comprises the first three lenses.
  • a belly is formed by the Luisen following the entrance group EG1.
  • These thick positive lenses have a positive effect on the Petzval sum.
  • the last lens of the lens group LG1 is aspherized on the lens surface arranged on the wafer side.
  • These thick positive lenses also make a favorable contribution in terms of coma orrelcture.
  • the second lens group LG2 comprises the lenses with the lens surfaces 16-21.
  • the first and the last lens surface of this lens group is aspheric.
  • This lens group has negative refractive power and it is clearly pronounced by this lens group Waist formed. This lens group thus makes a particularly valuable contribution to correcting the higher order sagital spherical image errors.
  • the negative group makes the main contribution to Pet ⁇ waUcoirekrur, in particular to the flat panel.
  • the third lens group is followed by the third lens group LG3, which is formed by the lenses with the lens surfaces 22-64.
  • This LG3 lens group stands out due to its elongated, tubular shape. Characterized by an elongated area in front of the system diaphragm 19, which has a light bundle diameter or a lens diameter that is at least 85% of the maximum lens diameter or maximum lens bundle diameter. By forming such a region, good optical properties, in particular with regard to a chiomatic longitudinal aberration, could be achieved using a single lens material. This area in front of the system aperture 19 and the area of the system aperture 19 itself is particularly sensitive to the development of chromatic longitudinal aberration.
  • each doublet consisting of a positive lens and a negative lens
  • Another doublet consisting of a positive lens followed by a negative lens is arranged after the system aperture 19.
  • a large part of the breclic power of the projection lens is provided by a thick positive lens following these doublets.
  • the formation of this end region UG3d also contributes significantly to the provision of a very high numerical aperture of 0.8, namely through small single contributions to the spherical aberration and coma number.
  • a positive subgroup is formed by the lenses with the lens surfaces 22-29, designated UG3A, which represents "degenerate" a belly.
  • the projection lens described in FIG. 2 enables an area of 10.5 ⁇ 26 mm to be exposed, the structure of the lens being imaged on the wafer in a manner reduced by a factor of 4.
  • the overall length of this lens arrangement 21 is 1344.0 mm measured from object plane 0 to image plane 0 '.
  • a field of 10.5x26 mm 2 can be exposed.
  • This lens arrangement 21 also has an input group EG1, which is formed by the first louvres arranged on the object side and having a negative refractive power.
  • the lens group LG1 is formed with the subsequent lenses with the areas 8-15. Again, the last lens surface 15 of this lens group is aspherized on the wafer side.
  • a third lens group LG2 is formed by the subsequent Luisen with the surfaces 16-21.
  • This third lens group LG2 has an overall negative refractive power and a clearly pronounced waist 29 is formed by this lens group.
  • This lens group is followed by a fourth lens group LG3, which has an elongated tubular shape, and a system aperture 19 is arranged in this fourth Luisen group.
  • this lens group LG3 On the side facing the third lens group LG2, this lens group LG3 has a sub-group UG3a which has low positive refractive power.
  • a weakly formed waist UG3b which is formed by two negative lenses, which have a large Durlininserser, n at least 85% of the maximum diameter. These two consecutive negative lises form a weak waist UG3b.
  • D3 and D4 are arranged in front of the system aperture 19.
  • D5 is another doublet denotes that a double sphere has through the aspheres on the lens surfaces 46 and 47.
  • the end region, designated UG3d, comprises a plurality of thin lenses through which the expanded light bundle 23 is focused on the wafer or on the image plane.
  • the lens arrangement 21 shown in FIG. 3 is also designed for the wavelength 193 mm and has a length of 1344 mm.
  • the field that can be exposed with this lens arrangement 21 is 10.5 ⁇ 26 mm 2 .
  • the numerical aperture is 0.85. With this lens, the object 9 is imaged on the image plane 13 reduced by a factor of 4. The exact lens data can be found in Table 2.
  • the lens arrangement shown in FIG. 4 is designed for the 157 nm exposure wavelength.
  • the overall length is 1390.0 mm measured from object level 0 to image level 0 '.
  • This lens arrangement 21 a field of 10.5 nm ⁇ x26n ⁇ n ⁇ can be observed.
  • the macroscopic structure of this lens arrangement differs only slightly from the lens arrangement shown in FIG. 3, so that a detailed description is not given here.
  • the exact lens data can be found in Table 3. TABLE 3
  • the lens arrangement 21 shown in FIG. 5 is also designed for the wavelength 157.6 nm.
  • This lens arrangement 21 differs significantly in that only 3 doublets D1, D2 and D4 are arranged in front of the system diaphragm 19.
  • the doublet marked D3 in the previous figures has been omitted.
  • the two successive negative lenses, through which the second weakly defined waist is formed, are arranged at a distance from one another. As a result of this changed arrangement and the saving of the doublet D3, the lens volume is reduced.
  • the lens arrangement 21 shown in FIG. 6 is designed for the wavelength 193 nanometers.
  • the illuminable field is 10.5 mm x 26 mm.
  • the overall length of object plane 0 '- image plane 0' is 1200 mm.
  • the amount of quartz glass required for production is only 103 kg.
  • just like the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 5 only a total of four doublets are provided. In this example of filling, the doublet, which was designated D3 in FIGS. 2-4, is also used.
  • the exact lens data can be found in Table 5 below.
  • P (h) is the arrow height as a function of the radius h, ie the distance from a flat surface that passes through the surface vertex and is oriented perpendicular to the optical axis.
  • Ci to C n are the aspherical constants given in the tables and CO is the conical constant.
  • R is the vertex radius given in the tables.
  • Diameter of the circle of confusion ⁇ 2.0 x structure width
  • the chromatically induced circle of confusion should be determined at maximum aperture and with a ⁇ of half the light source bandwidth to the mean working wavelength.
  • Diameter of the chromatic circle of confusion 2.1 * structure width, this results in a contrast decrease of about 6.5% of the polychromatic system to the monochromatic system for lattice structures.
  • a K 1 of 0.32 was rolled.
  • the K ⁇ value varies between 0.27 and 0.35.
  • the code number KCHL can make a comparison between different refractory lithography designs with regard to the generation of the chromatic longitudinal error under the conditions of image field, bandwidth of the light source and material dispersion of the lenses used. If the lens consists only of one material, only this one material dispersion is used. If the lens consists of several materials, each lens receives a synthetic replacement material with a refractive index as before, but with a uniform, selectable dispersion for calculating the replacement CHL.
  • is the bandwidth interval
  • Y 'ax is the maximum field diameter.
  • the numerical values for CHL, ⁇ ⁇ and Y ⁇ max are all entered in nm, for ⁇ ⁇ , for example, a value of Inm is selected.
  • the example m 1159a from WO 01/50171 AI represents a very typical KCHL value of 6.07 which varies only within very narrow limits of all refralctive lithography objectives. Such a high KCHL value of 6.64 for the example with description m 1450a is shown as an exception upwards.
  • KCHL value of ⁇ 5.0 and most preferably
  • I Projection control system 3 Illuminates igseimichtung

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L'invention concerne un objectif de projection réfractif pour microlithographie, comprenant un dispositif de lentilles dans lequel toutes les lentilles sont en un même matériau, et présentant une ouverture numérique (NA) côté image supérieure à 0,7, le faisceau lumineux (23) transmettant le dispositif de lentilles (21) dans une région située en amont d'un diaphragme (19) du système agencé dans le dispositif de lentilles (21) sur la longueur égale au plus grand diamètre du faisceau lumineux (25) ou du diamètre de lentille maximal dans le dispositif de lentilles (21) étant plus grand que 85 % du plus grand diamètre de faisceau lumineux (25) ou du diamètre de lentille maximal.
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