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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2019
Applicant:
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 1/22 (2012.01); G03F 7/20 (2006.01); G03F 1/54 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 1/22 (2013.01); G03F 1/54 (2013.01); G03F 7/7015 (2013.01);
Abstract
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks, methods for their manufacture and production systems therefor are disclosed. The EUV mask blanks comprise a substrate; a multilayer stack of reflective layers on the substrate; a capping layer on the multilayer stack of reflecting layers; and an absorber layer including an alloy of tantalum and copper on the capping layer.