Rl. Maltez et al., THERMAL-BEHAVIOR STUDY OF SB IMPLANTED INTO PHOTORESIST FILM, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 80-1, 1993, pp. 1316-1319
The thermal stability of Sb implanted AZ1350 photoresist films has bee
n investigated via the Rutherford backscattering technique. We find th
at a shallow Sb implantation raises the temperature at which the photo
resist starts to decompose considerably. Comparison of the present res
ults with those of Ag, Sn and Bi into the same photoresist indicates t
hat not only radiation but also chemical effects have to be considered
in order to explain the improvement of the photoresist thermal stabil
ity.