International Business Machines Corporation

Douglas Charles LaTulipe

Qinghuang Lin

Marie Angelopoulos

Wayne Martin Moreau

David Robert Medeiros

Katherina E Babich

John Patrick Simons

Karen Elizabeth Petrillo

Ahmad D Katnani

David Earle Seeger

William R Brunsvold

Ali Afzali-Ardakani

Ali Afzali-ardakani

Multilayered resist structures including bilayer and top surface imaging which utilize tuned underlayers functioning as ARCs, planarizing layers, and etch resistant hard masks whose properties such as optical, chemical and physical properties are tailored to give a multilayer resist structure exhibiting high resolution, residue free lithography and methods of preparing these materials.

Multilayered resist systems using tuned polymer films as underlayers and methods of fabrication thereof

Disclosed are multilayered resist structures including bilayer and top surface imaging which utilize tuned underlayers functioning as ARCs, planarizing layers, and etch resistant hard masks whose properties such as optical, chemical and physical properties are tailored to give a multilayer resist structure exhibiting high resolution, residue free lithography and methods of preparing these materials. These underlayer films include the group consisting of novolac based resists whose processing conditions are controlled, polyarylsulfones such as the BARL material, polyhydroxystyrene based derivatives, an example being a copolymer of polyhydroxystyrene and polyhydroxystyrene reacted with anthracenemethanol that contains a cross-linker, and acid catalyst (thermal acid generator), polyimides, polyethers in particular polyarylene ethers, polyarylenesulfides, polycarbonates such as polyarylenecarbonates, epoxies, epoxyacrylates, polyarylenes such as polyphenylenes, polyarylenevinylenes such as polyphenylenevinylenes, polyvinylcarbazole, cyclicolefins, and polyesters. Such films have index of refraction and extinction coefficient tunable from about 1.4 to about 2.1 and from about 0.1 to about 0.6 at UV and DUV wavelengths, in particular 365, 248, 193 and 157 nm and EUV. Moreover, underlayer films produced in the present invention do not interact with the resist limiting interfacial mixing and contamination of resist by an outgassing product. The bilayer and TSI resist structures can be used for 248, 193, 157, EUV, x-ray, e-beam, and ion beam technology.

A high-performance radiation sensitive silicon-containing negative-tone resist is provided along with a method of using the silicon-containing resist in multilayer, including bilayer, imaging for manufacturing semiconductor devices. The negative-tone silicon-containing resist is based on an acid catalyzed high-contrast crosslinking of aqueous base soluble silicon-containing phenolic polymers through reaction of a carbocation of the crosslinking agent with the hydroxyl site of the phenolic group in the silicon-containing polymers. A chemically amplified silicon-containing negative-tone resist composition comprising said silicon-containing polymer resin; at least one crosslinking agent; one acid generator; and a solvent is provided. The silicon-containing resist composition has high silicon content and provide excellent resolution and a means of patterning high aspect ratio resist patterns. The resist compositions can be used as the top imaging layer in a multilayer, including bilayer, scheme to fabricate semiconductor devices using various irradiation sources, such as mid-ultraviolet (UV), deep-UV, extreme UV, X-ray, e-beam and ion-beam irradiation.

Radiation sensitive silicon-containing resists

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