E. Louis et al., SOFT-X-RAY PROJECTION LITHOGRAPHY USING A HIGH-REPETITION-RATE LASER-INDUCED X-RAY SOURCE FOR SUB-100 NANOMETER LITHOGRAPHY PROCESSES, Microelectronic engineering, 21(1-4), 1993, pp. 67-70
In this paper we present the status of a joint development programme o
n soft x-ray projection lithography (SXPL) integrating work on high br
ightness laser plasma sources. fabrication of multilayer x-ray mirrors
. and patterning of reflection masks. We are in the process of optimiz
ation of a laser-plasma x-ray source and measured the conversion-effic
iency of laser light into x-rays. Furthermore we present results of et
ching patterns in x-ray reflection masks and we discuss improved depos
ition techniques to produce multilayer coatings with enhanced reflecti
vity.