Method and system for controlling the relative size of images formed in light-sensitive media
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsPaul E. Bakeman, Jr., Albert S. Bergendahl
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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsPaul E. Bakeman, Jr., Albert S. Bergendahl
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A method of exposing a radiation-sensitive medium through a mask and using an imaging system having a given depth of focus to control for pattern dependent distortion. The steps comprise: providing the radiation-sensitive medium within the depth of focus of the imaging system; providing radiation to the radiation-sensitive medium through the mask; providing the radiation-sensitive medium fully outside the depth of focus of the imaging system; and providing radiation to the radiation-sensitive medium through the mask. Corrections are automatically made by providing the radiation-sensitive medium fully outside the depth of focus of the imaging system, since in that regime the mask operates as a grey-scale mask, with the amount of light passing through any region of the mask dependent on the transmission of the masking pattern in that region.
Structures on a substrate formed with an imaging system having a resolution limit, comprising;
Structures formed on a substrate with an imaging system having a resolution limit, comprising:
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