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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/1302 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/1302 ;
Abstract
To provide a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device for manufacturing a minute pattern with high accuracy using a stencil mask. An input layout data is classified into rectangles according to pattern width or the like, a boundary is created that divides a periphery or an inside of each classified graphics, an input pattern is fractionized by the boundary, and a complementary mask with fractionized patterns on both sides of the boundary distributed into different layers is used to form a pattern.