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Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2008

Filed:

Jun. 09, 2006
Applicant:

Sang Hun Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventor:

Sang Hun Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention describes a method including: providing a substrate, the substrate including a first region and a second region; forming a multilayer mirror over the substrate; forming a phase-shifter layer over the multilayer mirror; forming a capping layer over the phase-shifter layer; removing the capping layer and the phase-shifter layer in the second region; illuminating the first region and the second region with EUV light; and reflecting the EUV light off the first region and the second region. The present invention also describes a structure including: a substrate, the substrate including a first region and a second region; a multilayer mirror located over the first region and the second region; a phase-shifter layer located over the multilayer mirror in the region; an intensity balancer layer located over the multilayer mirror in the second region; and a capping layer located over the phase-shifter layer in the first region and over the intensity balancer layer in the second region.


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