Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Jeong-ju Park

Eun-sung Kim

Shi-yong Yi

Seung-chul Kwon

Kyoung-mi Kim

Kyeong-mi Lee

Jae-ho Kim

Jin Su Park

Dong-jun Lee

Hyun-woo Kim

Tasuku Matsumiya

Young-ho Kim

Min-Jung Kim

Jung-sik Choi

Boo-deuk Kim

Mi-ra Park

Katsumi Ohmori

Ju-Young Kim

Jae-woo Nam

Hai-sub Na

Sang-ouk Kim

Hyoung-hee Kim

Se-kyung Baek

Tsuyosh Kurosawa

Soo-jin Lee

Bo-Hee Lee

Young-joo Choi

A rinse solution includes a surfactant and deionized water. The surfactant includes a compound having a branched structure, the compound having a branched structure including a hydrophobic group-containing main chain and a plurality of side chains that are branched from the main chain and have at least one hydrophilic functional group. A method of fabricating an integrated circuit device includes forming a photoresist pattern, followed by applying the rinse solution onto the photoresist pattern.

Rinse solution and method of fabricating integrated circuit device by using the same

A method of forming a micropattern, a substrate surface inspection apparatus, a cantilever set for an atomic force microscope, and a method of analyzing a surface of a semiconductor substrate, and a probe tip the method including forming pinning patterns on a semiconductor substrate; forming a neutral pattern layer in spaces between the pinning patterns; and inspecting a surface of a guide layer that includes the pinning patterns and the neutral pattern layer by using an atomic force microscope (AFM).

Cantilever set for atomic force microscopes, substrate surface inspection apparatus including the same, method of analyzing surface of semiconductor substrate by using the same, and method of forming micropattern by using the same

In a method of forming patterns, an object layer is formed on a substrate. Guide patterns are formed on the object layer. A brush layer is formed using a brush polymer on surfaces of the guide patterns. The brush polymer includes at least one of a first brush polymer and a second brush polymer. The first brush polymer includes a hydrophobic repeating unit and a hydrophilic terminal group having at least two hydroxyl groups. The second brush polymer includes a hydrophobic repeating unit and a hydrophilic random repeating unit having a hydroxyl group. A self-aligned layer is formed using a block copolymer on the brush layer to form blocks aligned around the guide patterns. At least a portion of the blocks is transferred to the object layer.

Methods of forming patterns of semiconductor devices

A method of forming a pattern of a semiconductor device includes forming a lower film on a substrate having a first surface and a second surface at different levels, forming an upper film of hydrophobic material on the lower film, forming a block copolymer film on the upper film, phase-separating the block copolymer film to form first patterns spaced apart from one another and a second pattern spanning the first patterns and interposed between a bottom surface of each of the first patterns and the upper film, removing the first patterns, and performing an etch process using the second pattern or a residual part of the second pattern as an etch mask.

Method of forming pattern of semiconductor device

A method of forming a fine pattern includes forming pillar-shaped guides regularly arranged on a feature layer, forming a block copolymer layer on the feature layer around the pillar-shaped guides, phase separating the block copolymer layer, forming first domains regularly arranged on the feature layer with the pillar-shaped guides, forming a second domain on the feature layer surrounding the pillar-shaped guides and the first domains, removing the first domains, and forming holes corresponding with the first domains in the feature layer by etching the feature layer using the pillar-shaped guides and the second domain as etch masks. The block copolymer layer includes a polymer blend having first and second polymer blocks having first and second repeat units, respectively, a first homopolymer and a second homopolymer. The first domains include the first polymer block and the first homopolymer, and the second domain includes the second polymer block and the second homopolymer.

Method of forming fine pattern and method of manufacturing integrated circuit device using the method

A method of forming a fine pattern includes forming a phase separation guide layer on a substrate, forming a neutral layer on the phase separation guide layer, forming a first pattern including first openings on the neutral layer, forming a second pattern including second openings each having a smaller width than each of the first openings, forming a neutral pattern including guide patterns exposing a portion of the phase separation guide layer by etching an exposed portion of the neutral layer by using the second pattern as an etch mask, removing the second pattern to expose a top surface of the neutral pattern, forming a material layer including a block copolymer on the neutral pattern and the phase separation guide layer exposed through the guide patterns, and forming a fine pattern layer including a first block and a second block on the neutral pattern and the phase separation guide layer.

Method of forming a fine pattern by using block copolymers

A method of forming patterns of a semiconductor device may include forming a photoresist layer that includes a photo acid generator (PAG) and a photo base generator (PBG), generating an acid from the PAG in a first exposed portion of the photoresist layer by first-exposing the photoresist layer, and generating a base from the PBG in a second exposed portion of the photoresist layer by second-exposing a part of the first exposed portion and neutralizing the acid. The method may also include baking the photoresist layer after the first and second-exposing and deblocking the photoresist layer of the first exposed portion in which the acid is generated to form a deblocked photoresist layer, and forming a photoresist pattern by removing the deblocked photoresist layer by using a developer.

Method of forming patterns of semiconductor device

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using a photolithography process may include forming an anti-reflective layer and a first photoresist film on a lower surface. The first photoresist film may be exposed to light and a first photoresist pattern having a first opening may be formed by developing the first photoresist film. A plasma treatment can be performed on the first photoresist pattern and a second photoresist film may be formed on the first photoresist pattern, which may be exposed to light. A second photoresist pattern may be formed to have a second opening by developing the second photoresist film. Here, the second opening may be substantially narrower than the first opening.

Methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices using photolithography

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