KR20130028181A - Photomask cleaning method - Google Patents
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- KR20130028181A KR20130028181A KR1020110080286A KR20110080286A KR20130028181A KR 20130028181 A KR20130028181 A KR 20130028181A KR 1020110080286 A KR1020110080286 A KR 1020110080286A KR 20110080286 A KR20110080286 A KR 20110080286A KR 20130028181 A KR20130028181 A KR 20130028181A
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- G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
- G03F—PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR
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- G03F—PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR
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- H01L21/027—Making masks on semiconductor bodies for further photolithographic processing not provided for in group H01L21/18 or H01L21/34
- H01L21/0271—Making masks on semiconductor bodies for further photolithographic processing not provided for in group H01L21/18 or H01L21/34 comprising organic layers
- H01L21/0273—Making masks on semiconductor bodies for further photolithographic processing not provided for in group H01L21/18 or H01L21/34 comprising organic layers characterised by the treatment of photoresist layers
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- H01L21/027—Making masks on semiconductor bodies for further photolithographic processing not provided for in group H01L21/18 or H01L21/34
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- H01L21/0337—Making masks on semiconductor bodies for further photolithographic processing not provided for in group H01L21/18 or H01L21/34 comprising inorganic layers characterised by their size, orientation, disposition, behaviour, shape, in horizontal or vertical plane characterised by the process involved to create the mask, e.g. lift-off masks, sidewalls, or to modify the mask, e.g. pre-treatment, post-treatment
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a photo mask cleaning process. The photo mask cleaning method includes loading a photo mask into a spin chuck having conductive chuck pins; Removing charges accumulated in the pattern of the photo mask; And cleaning the photo mask; In the charge removing step, the conductive treatment liquid is sprayed onto the photo mask rotated at a low speed so that the charge accumulated in the pattern of the photo mask is removed through the conductive chuck pins of the spin chuck through the conductive treatment liquid.
Description
The present invention relates to a method for cleaning a photo mask, and more particularly, to a method for cleaning a photo mask made of a non-conductive substrate.
A photomask is a shape of a microcircuit of a semiconductor on a quartz or glass substrate. For example, using a chromium thin film coated on an upper layer of a transparent quartz substrate, a semiconductor integrated circuit and an LCD pattern may be 1 to 5 times the actual size. Etched. The fine pattern of the photomask is formed on the substrate through a photolithography process. In the photolithography process, the photoresist is uniformly coated on a substrate, the pattern on the photomask is reduced and projectedly exposed using an exposure apparatus such as a stepper, and then the development process is performed before the formation of the two-dimensional photoresist pattern. Say the process.
Photomasks are undergoing a cleaning process to remove contamination from various requirements. The photo mask cleaning process is performed in a spin cleaning apparatus.
However, since the photomask is deposited with a metal pattern (chromium pattern), if there is an electrostatic discharge due to the equipment or the surrounding environment during the process, a strong current flows into the internal region and causes great damage such as melting the fine pattern of the photomask. A problem arises.
That is, the photomask easily reaches the internal micropattern area through the conductor such as chromium pattern deposited on the pattern surface by the electrostatic discharge (ESD) generated by the external environment such as an operator or equipment during the process, and generates high heat. It causes damage and breaks the chrome pattern. Therefore, when the wafer is exposed in the state where the photo mask is damaged in this way, a defective pattern is generated, which causes a secondary problem of remanufacturing an expensive mask.
In particular, the charge accumulated on the metal pattern of the photo mask is discharged for a moment when rotated at a high speed in the cleaning process, causing pattern damage. In the apparatus for cleaning the photomask, pattern damage due to static electricity generated in the conductive pattern included in the photomask is rapidly increasing due to the rotation of the photomask.
In order to prevent the pattern damage problem caused by static electricity in such a cleaning device, a fixing pin for supporting the photomask may be made of a conductive material. However, since the photomask is patterned about 1 mm into the quartz (or glass) substrate, the charges accumulated in the metal pattern are difficult to escape to the conductive pins.
The present invention is to solve the above problems, and provides a cleaning method of the photo mask that can remove the electric charge present in the metal pattern of the photo mask.
In addition, the present invention provides a method for cleaning a photomask, which can prevent photomask damage due to static electricity during the cleaning process.
The objects of the present invention are not limited thereto, and other objects not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.
In order to achieve the above object, a photo mask cleaning method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes loading a photo mask on a spin chuck having conductive chuck pins; Removing charges accumulated in the pattern of the photo mask; And cleaning the photo mask; In the charge removing step, the conductive treatment liquid is sprayed onto the photo mask rotated at a low speed so that the charge accumulated in the pattern of the photo mask is removed through the conductive chuck pins of the spin chuck through the conductive treatment liquid.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the conductive treatment liquid is ultrapure water to which carbon dioxide (CO 2) is added.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the rotation speed of the photo mask in the charge removing step is 200rpm or less.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the chuck pins are connected to an external ground line through a conductive line inside the spin chuck so that charges charged on the pattern surface of the photo mask are discharged to the outside.
According to the present invention, charges charged on the pattern surface of the photo mask are electrically connected to the chuck pins by the conductive treatment liquid and discharged to the outside, thereby preventing damage to the chromium film and generation of particles during photo mask cleaning.
The drawings described below are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
1 is a view showing a photo mask cleaning equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 shows a one-layer layout of the photo mask cleaning equipment shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 shows a two-layer layout of the photo mask cleaning equipment shown in FIG. 1.
4 is a view showing a state where the photo mask is loaded into the spin chuck for the cleaning process,
FIG. 5 is an enlarged view illustrating main parts of a process in which charge on the pattern surface of the photomask flows to the chuck pins by the conductive treatment liquid.
6 is a flowchart for briefly explaining a photo mask cleaning method.
Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a photo mask cleaning equipment equipped with a conveying apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. In the drawings, the same reference numerals are used to designate the same or similar components throughout the drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.
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1 is a block diagram showing a photo mask cleaning equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention. 2 and 3 show layouts of the first and second layers of the photo mask cleaning apparatus shown in FIG. 1.
1 to 3, the photo
The
The
The glue removal processing modules (HSU, GSU) apply SPM solution to the entire surface of the photo mask to remove the glue by applying the HSU (2300) to remove the glue and SPM solution partially on the edge of the photo mask. Module (HSU) 2400. The photo
The
The
In the photo
The photo mask cleaning equipment can process up to five photo masks simultaneously, so high productivity can be expected.
The photo mask is very vulnerable to static electricity because the pattern surface is made of Cr. Therefore, the photo mask cleaning equipment of the present invention has a movement path (first feed path, second feed path, respectively) to minimize damage caused by static electricity. Ionizer (inside the processing module) of the (ionizer) can be installed. In addition, the photomask cleaning equipment of the present invention frequently removes static electricity when cleaning a photomask that is susceptible to static electricity. Description of the static elimination will be described later in detail.
The glue removal processing modules (HSU, GSU) 2300 and 2400 and the functional water treatment module (SCU) 3400 are provided with a rotation processing device having a spin chuck, and the photo mask is cleaned while being loaded on the spin chuck. Is processed. Below, the rotation processing apparatus used for each processing module is outlined.
4 is a view illustrating a state in which a photo mask is loaded into a spin chuck for a cleaning process, and FIG. 5 is an enlarged view illustrating main parts of a process in which charge on the pattern surface of the photo mask flows to the chuck pins by the conductive treatment liquid.
4 to 5, the
The
The
The
Meanwhile, a
The chuck pins 5230 support the photomask so that the photomask is spaced apart from the upper surface of the
A conductive line 5302 is connected to the chuck pins 5230. The conductive line 5252 is connected to the ground line 5342. The thick dashed line shown in FIG. 4 indicates a path through which the electric charge charged in the photo mask P is discharged through the chuck pins 5230. The
The
Here, the carbon dioxide functional water is used as a rinse treatment liquid in the photo mask cleaning process. Therefore, the carbon dioxide functional water is injected for the rinse treatment such as the treatment liquid removal in addition to the purpose of removing the static electricity of the photo mask during the photo mask cleaning process, and the charge on the photo mask pattern surface is automatically removed every rinse treatment.
Although not shown, the
6 is a flowchart for briefly explaining a photo mask cleaning method.
4 and 6, the photo mask cleaning method includes a charge removing step S100, a cleaning step S200, and a drying step S300. Photomask P is loaded into
The photo mask from which the charge is removed is cleaned by various processing liquids (S200). In the cleaning treatment step, the carbon dioxide functional water used in the charge removal step is supplied to the photo mask P for the rinse treatment. Therefore, the photo mask is discharged to the outside through the chuck pins every time the rinse treatment step is performed even in the cleaning step.
The cleaned photo mask is dried through a surface drying process (S300).
The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The protection scope of the present invention should be interpreted by the following claims, and all technical ideas within the equivalent scope should be interpreted as being included in the scope of the present invention.
5000: rotation processing device 5100: container
5200: spin chuck 5300: lifting unit
5400: first spray nozzle
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Loading a photo mask into a spin chuck having conductive chuck pins;
Removing charges accumulated in the pattern of the photo mask; And
Cleaning the photo mask;
The charge removing step
And a charge accumulated in the pattern of the photo mask by spraying the conductive treatment liquid on the photo mask rotated at a low speed, and is removed through the conductive chuck pins of the spin chuck using the conductive treatment liquid as a medium.
The conductive treatment liquid
It is ultrapure water to which carbon dioxide (CO2) was added, The photo mask cleaning method characterized by the above-mentioned.
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