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7618751 RET for optical maskless lithography  
The present invention relates to Optical Maskless Lithography (OML). In particular, it relates to providing OML with a recognizable relationship to mask and phase-shift mask techniques.
7612864 Exposure apparatus and method  
An exposure apparatus includes an optical system generating light, a mask, a light-absorbing member and a substrate plate. The mask includes a mask body disposed at a path of the light, a first...
7611826 Photosensitive resin composition controlling solubility and pattern formation method of double-layer structure using the same  
The present invention relates to a new photosensitive resin composition capable of solubility control and a pattern formation method of a double-layer structure using the same, and more...
7605908 Near-field exposure mask, near-field exposure apparatus, and near-field exposure method  
A near-field exposure mask includes a light blocking film having an opening smaller than a wavelength of exposure light, and a mask base material for holding the light blocking film. The near-field...
7601485 Exposure method  
An exposure method for exposing a resist film disposed on one surface of a wafer includes a first exposure step of locating an exposure mask at a first predetermined position with respect to the...
7598020 Exposure apparatus and method  
A production method of a semiconductor device which includes the steps of exposing a resist coated on a substrate of a semiconductor device by projecting a light pattern on the substrate of the...
7585601 Method to optimize grating test pattern for lithography monitoring and control  
A method of making a process monitor grating pattern for use in a lithographic imaging system comprises determining minimum resolvable pitch of a plurality of spaced, adjacent line elements, and...
7579136 Microfluidic device and method of manufacturing the same  
Provided is a method of manufacturing a microfluidic device in which coating film patterns made of a coupling agent are formed in microchannels. The method includes: forming the coating film...
7568492 Custom camouflage hunting blind  
A realistic appearing camouflage hunting blind that incorporates a photographic image of a hunting location. The visual appearance of the hunting blind mimics the actual environment so that from a...
7553609 Manufacturing method of piezoelectric vibrating piece, piezoelectric vibrating piece, piezoelectric vibrator, oscillator, electronic equipment and radio-controlled timepiece  
There are provided a piezoelectric vibrating piece, which has been more miniaturized and whose efficiency has been more increased, by easily and certainly electrode-dividing an exciting electrode,...
7541117 Mask pattern generating method  
Disclosed herein is a mask pattern generating method for generating a mask pattern to be formed in a Levenson phase shift mask used in a light exposure process for exposing a photoresist film...
7537869 Evaluation of pattern formation process, photo masks for the evaluation, and fabrication method of a semiconductor device with the evaluation process  
A method for evaluating a pattern formation process includes applying a photoresist on a substrate, transferring a first pattern and a second pattern adjacent to or at least partly overlapped with...
7527920 Active hardmask for lithographic patterning  
In an implementation, energy reaching the lower surface of a photoresist may be redirected back into the photoresist material. This may be done by, for example, reflecting and/or fluorescing the...
7527917 Exposure method and exposure apparatus  
For each of pattern projection regions, a mask and a substrate are moved in synchronization with each other in an X direction while projecting a portion of a mask pattern through an optical...
7514115 Method of forming thin film of organometallic compound, thin film of organometallic compound, method of manufacturing organoelectronic device equipped with the same, organoelectronic device, method of manufacturing organic electroluminescence, organic electroluminescence, and electronic apparatus  
Aspects of the invention can provide a method of fabricating an organometallic compound film capable, by stably forming a film with the organometallic compound, of increasing bonding forces of...
7504186 Photomask, method for producing the same, and method for forming pattern using the photomask  
A photomask has a semi-light-shielding portion having a light-shielding property and a light-transmitting portion surrounded by the semi-light-shielding portion, and a peripheral portion positioned...
7491479 Compensating for effects of topography variation by using a variable intensity-threshold  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that accurately determines a critical dimension of a feature in a layout by compensating for the effects of topography variation on the...
7476471 Method for correcting mask pattern, exposure mask, and mask producing method  
A method for correcting an exposure mask including a film of mask blank having reflex function for an EUV and an absorber film patterned on the film of mask blank for absorbing the EUV, the present...
7473523 Systems and methods for modifying features in a semi-conductor device  
Systems and methods for modifying features of a semiconductor device. The systems and methods of the invention modify features of a semiconductor device according to the amount of exposure dose of...
7473519 Method for manufacturing electrodes of a plasma display panel  
A method for manufacturing electrodes of a plasma display panel includes providing a front transparent substrate including transparent electrodes on the front transparent substrate, coating a black...
7469058 Method and system for a maskless lithography rasterization technique based on global optimization  
Provided are a method and system for determining states of spatial light modulator (SLM) pixels in a lithography system configured to print a desired pattern. The method includes determining...
7468239 Mask for photolithography, method of forming thin film, liquid crystal display device, and method of producing the liquid crystal display device  
A mask for photolithography in which a semi-transmission film is formed so that the phase difference of lights passing through a semi-transmission portion and a transmission portion of the mask for...
7460282 Dynamic pattern generation for optical signal processing  
A processor such as a digital signal processor (DSP) is used to dynamically generate patterns and/or sequences of patterns for a spatial light modulator (SLM), such as a micromirror device, for the...
7455939 Method of improving grating test pattern for lithography monitoring and controlling  
A method of making a process monitor grating pattern for use in a lithographic imaging system comprises determining minimum resolvable pitch of a plurality of spaced, adjacent line elements, and...
7449284 Method and structure for fabricating mechanical mirror structures using backside alignment techniques  
A method for fabricating mechanical structures from bonding substrates. The method includes providing a bonded substrate structure, which includes a first substrate having a first thickness of...
7442477 Exposing apparatus and exposing method, for maskless exposure of substrate to be exposed, and plotter and plotting method for directly plotting on object to be plotted  
An exposing apparatus for irradiating desired spots on a substrate to be exposed relatively moving with respect to two or more light sources arranged along the direction of the relative movement to...
7439001 Focus blur measurement and control method  
A method for optimizing imaging and process parameter settings in a lithographic pattern imaging and processing system is disclosed. The method includes correlating the dimensions of a first set of...
7435535 Method for forming patterned insulating elements and methods for making electron source and image display device  
A method for forming patterned insulating elements on a substrate includes a plurality of exposure steps of exposing a photosensitive paste provided on the substrate through at least one mask...
7415694 Graph based phase shift lithography mapping method and apparatus  
For phase-shifting micro lithography, a method of assigning phase to a set of shifter polygons in a mask layer separated by a set of target features includes assigning a first phase to a first...
7410736 Methods and systems to compensate for a stitching disturbance of a printed pattern in a maskless lithography system not utilizing overlap of the exposure zones  
A method and system are provided for forming a pattern within an area of a photosensitive surface. An exemplary method includes performing a first exposure of the photosensitive surface in...
7402378 Exposure method and apparatus  
There is provided an exposure method that includes the steps of forming a phase shift mask having a desired pattern and a cyclic dummy pattern overlaid onto the desired pattern, a part of the...
7399559 Optical proximity correction method utilizing phase-edges as sub-resolution assist features  
A photolithography mask for optically transferring a pattern formed in the mask onto a substrate and for negating optical proximity effects. The mask includes a plurality of resolvable features to...
7389930 Mask management method and bar code reading apparatus thereof  
A mask management and bar code reading apparatus thereof are disclosed. The mask management method comprises providing a bar code reading apparatus, scanning a mask bar code on the mask by the bar...
7388216 Pattern writing and forming method  
A pattern forming method is proposed for easy correction of a pattern-size variation occurring in an etching process. An energy beam is radiated onto a resist-applied target while the energy beam...
7385209 Micromachining process, system and product  
Ion beam lithography technique wherein a higher amount of radiation energy is deposited to predetermined regions in the bulk if a suitable substrate. By selecting the radiation nature, its energy...
7382959 Optically oriented three-dimensional polymer microstructures  
A method and system of creating one or more waveguides and/or patterning these waveguides to form a 3D microstructure that uses mask and collimated light. In one embodiment, the system includes at...
7374866 System and method for exposure of partial edge die  
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a photoresist layer on a surface of a wafer. The wafer includes an array of die...
7371510 Material for forming resist protecting film for use in liquid immersion lithography process, composite film, and method for forming resist pattern  
Provided are a material for forming a resist protecting film which is for use in a liquid immersion lithography process and which is formed on a resist film, wherein the material has the following...
7358035 Topcoat compositions and methods of use thereof  
A topcoat composition that includes a fluorine-containing polymer and a casting solvent selected from the group consisting of α,α,α-trifluorotoluene,...
7354695 Producing a substrate having high surface-area texturing  
A method is provided for preparing high surface-area texturing of a substrate using methods by which material from a substrate is subtracted from or added to the surface of the substrate. In one...
7351523 Photographic materials having improved keeping properties  
The use of a red-sensitising trinuclear merocyanine dye and an osmium dopant according to formula (I): [Os(NZ)L 5 ] r wherein Z is sulphur or oxygen, L is a ligand and r is 0, −1, −2 or −3,...
7329481 Substrate optical waveguides having fiber-like shape and methods of making the same  
Substrate optical waveguides having curved major surfaces and methods for making the same are disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, a photosensitive cladding layer is pattern exposed to actinic...
7326442 Antireflective composition and process of making a lithographic structure  
An antireflective composition and a lithographic structure comprising a silicon-metal oxide, antireflective material derived from the composition. The antireflective composition comprises a polymer...
7320856 Manufacturing method of pattern formed body  
A main object of the present invention is to provide a manufacturing method of a plurality of pattern formed bodies which makes it possible that even if the pattern formed bodies are continuously...
7312020 Lithography method  
A lithography method for forming a plurality of patterns in a photoresist layer. A phase shift mask including a plurality of transparent main features, a plurality of first phase shift transparent...
7288366 Method for dual damascene patterning with single exposure using tri-tone phase shift mask  
A reticle structure and a method of forming a photoresist profile on a substrate using the reticle having a multi-level profile. The reticle comprises (1) a transparent substrate, (2) a partially...
7279253 Near-field light generating structure, near-field exposure mask, and near-field generating method  
A near-field exposure mask includes a mask base material and a light blocking layer formed on the base material, the light blocking layer includes a fine metal structure or fine opening formed in...
7267930 Techniques for manufacturing a waveguide with a three-dimensional lens  
Optical transmission structures include a waveguide and an optical lens wherein the optical lens has a sufficiently large thickness to allow the formation of a curved front lens surface that...
7264918 Resist composition for liquid immersion exposure process and method of forming resist pattern therewith  
A resist composition for liquid immersion lithography process, which comprises: (A) a polymer comprising (a1) alkali-soluble constitutional units each comprising an alicyclic group having both (i)...
7264909 Exposure parameter obtaining method, exposure parameter evaluating method, semiconductor device manufacturing method, charged beam exposure apparatus, and method of the same  
An exposure parameter obtaining method comprising forming a charged reference pattern and a plurality of charged exposure patterns at a surface region of a to-be-exposed insulation substrate by...