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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011

Filed:

Feb. 29, 2008
Applicants:

Cesar M. Garza, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Sungseo Cho, Sturbridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Cesar M. Garza, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Sungseo Cho, Sturbridge, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 9/00 (2006.01); G03C 5/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for patterning a substrate is provided, which comprises (a) providing a substrate; (b) applying a first layer comprising a first photo resist to the substrate; (c) applying a second layer comprising a second photo resist over the first layer; (d) patterning the second layer; and (e) inspecting the patterned second layer with an inspection tool; wherein at least one of the first and second layers comprises a contrasting agent which increases the contrast between the first and second layers to the inspection tool.


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