M. Larsson et al., SUCCESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OPTIMIZATION OF RESIST KINOFORMS MANUFACTURED WITH DIRECT-WRITING, ELECTRON-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY, Applied optics, 33(7), 1994, pp. 1176-1179
It is shown that multilevel SAL 110 resist kinoforms can be developed
stepwise. Measurements of the kinoform diffraction pattern, performed
between the development steps, permitted correct final developments to
be made. No significant relief shape degradation was observed for dev
elopment times as high as 25 min. The results imply that the electron-
beam exposure doses, and hence the exposure time, can be reduced by a
factor of 3 compared with doses used currently.