Photoinduced outgassing from the resist for extreme ultraviolet lithography by the analysis of mass spectroscopy

Extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) requires the vacuum environment for exposing the resist. The contamination in the vacuum environment decreases the reflectivity of the reflective mask and that of the imaging optics. The:photoinduced outgassing from the resist becomes the contamination in the vacuum environment. Therefore, the outgassing detection investigation is very important; The outgassing from the chemically amplified (CA) resists EUV001 for EUVL, EUV006N for EUVL, UV5 for KrF lithography and the nonchemically amplified resists OEBR2000 and ZEP520 for electron beam lithography were investigated. Based on the photoinduced reactions of the resist, the fragment ions species that were measured by the quadrupole mass spectrometer were identified. It is found that the amount of the photoinduced outgassing such as hydrocarbons from the DQN resist and annealing-type CA positive-tone resist is small. (C) 2001 American Vacuum Society.