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tone resist) or soluble (positive tone resist) in the subsequent development step. The drive to fabricate devices with ever reducing dimensions has meant that alternatives to diffraction-limited photon-based lithography have evolved, using chargedparticlebeams [103]. Electron beam lithography (EBL
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Figure 1: (a) Schematic diagram of the helium ion microscope. Adapted with permission from Cambridge Universi...
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and is capable of sub-10 nm patterning using either developable resists or a self-developing mode applicable for many polymeric resists, which is preferred. Like FEBIP it is potentially capable of massive parallelization for applications requiring high throughput.
Keywords: chargedparticlebeams
lithography are the leading top-down methods. In this review we focus on another top-down generic technology, namely nanostructuring by chargedparticlebeams used to expose a resist, which can be used as a mask for pattern transfer etching and metal deposition etc.
Nanolithography using chargedparticle
particlebeams and the resolution obtained is set by the scattering of the beam in the resist layer and the underlying substrate. Scattering and range depend upon a combination of electron scattering and nuclear scattering. The latter is of particular importance for heavy ions like Ga+ and causes damage to
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(a) SEM image of ALIS gas field ion source, produced with permission of [24], copyright 2010 Japanese J...