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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2019
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vibhu Jindal, San Jose, CA (US);
Madhavi R Chandrachood, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vikash Banthia, Los Altos, CA (US);
APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks, methods for their manufacture and production systems therefor are disclosed. The EUV mask blanks comprise a substrate having a first side and a second side; a backside coating layer comprising an alloy of tantalum and nickel on the first side of the substrate; a multilayer stack of reflective layers on the second side of the substrate, the multilayer stack of reflective layers including a plurality of reflective layers including reflective layer pairs; a capping layer on the multilayer stack of reflecting layers; and an absorber layer on the capping layer.