Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Souji Koikari

Shuichi Tamamushi

Kazuto Matsuki

Shigehiro Hara

Toshio Yamaguchi

Shusuke Yoshitake

Eiji Murakami

Munehiro Ogasawara

Toru Tojo

Ryoichi Hirano

Hitoshi Higurashi

Kazuyuki Okuzono

A pattern lithography system for lithographing a pattern with reference to a pattern data by deflecting an electron beam includes a controller, an extracting unit, a dividing unit, and an expansion unit. The controller analyzes the pattern data and determines stripes of the pattern to be successively lithographed. The extracting unit extracts parts of the pattern data corresponding to stripes of the pattern in response to commands from the controller and sends the data to the dividing unit. The dividing unit divides the part of the pattern data into a plurality of sub-patterns. The sub-patterns are sized smaller than a minimum deflection range of the electron beam. The expanding unit expands the sub-patterns in accordance with a command from the controller to produce stripe data for driving a lithographing unit to lithograph the stripe. Stripes may have at least one sub-pattern in common such that multiple lithography is performed.

Electron beam exposure apparatus

An object of the present invention is to provide a charged particle exposure system which can prevent the shift of an orbit of an electron beam in the vicinity of a periphery of a substrate when drawing a pattern onto the substrate, thereby making it possible to draw the pattern with high accuracy. According to the present invention, there is provided a charged particle beam exposure system comprising a holder for holding a substrate, a beam source for emitting a charged particle beam onto a surface of the substrate, beam scanning means for scanning the charged particle beam to draw a pattern on the surface of the substrate, a first electrical conductive block coming in electrical contact with a surface of a peripheral portion of the substrate, a first DC power supply unit for supplying an arbitrary voltage to the first electrical conductive block, a second electrical conductive block arranged to cover upside of the first electrical conductive block and upside of a peripheral portion along the periphery of the substrate, and to be electrically insulated from the substrate, and a second DC power supply unit for supplying the other arbitrary voltage to the second electrical conductive block.

Charged particle beam exposure system

The present invention provides a charged beam drawing method comprising a first step of setting a stripe field independent of drawing pattern definition data and of determining the drawing pattern definition data which belongs to the stripe field set, a second step of setting a sub-field independent of the drawing pattern definition data and of determining the drawing pattern definition data which belongs to the sub-field, among the drawing pattern definition data determined, a third step of drawing the drawing pattern definition data which belongs to the sub-field onto an object to be subjected to drawing, a fourth step of shifting a position of the stripe field by a first predetermined value, and of shifting a position of the sub-field by a second predetermined value, and a fifth step of repeating the first to fourth steps for at least two times.

Charged beam drawing method

A charged particle beam lithograph apparatus of the present invention projects a charged particle beam onto a sample through a mask and lithographs a mask pattern on the sample through the movement of the charged particle beam. In order to focus the charged particle beam, the apparatus creates an electromagnetic field, from the magnetic lens, symmetric with respect to an optical axis of the charged particle beam. An aberration of the charged particle beam is created under the symmetric electromagnetic magnet. The aberration is compensated for under an electromagnetic field nonsymmetric with respect to the optical axis which is created by a deflection unit.

Charged particle beam lithograph apparatus

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Numazu, Japan

Souji Koikari