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Measurements of current density distribution in e-beam writer
Bok, Jan ; Kolařík, Vladimír
An e-beam writer with a variable shaped beam needs a bright and stable source of electrons but also a homogeneous square beam segment. This is the starting element out oif wich smaller rectangular-shaped variable-sized patterns are selected (stamps). Current inhomogeneity of the starting element would cause and different current density of various stamps that negatively impacts the exposure quality. This problem implies the necessity of analysing and monitoring the current density distribution in the staring beam element.
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Scanning Probe Microscopy: Measuring on Hard Surfaces
Matějka, Milan ; Urbánek, Michal ; Kolařík, Vladimír
During a measurement by scanning probe microscopy (SPM) an image artifacts can appear in a measurement data. The source of image artifacts during an SPM measurement could be in parts of the SPM tool: mechanical system, piezoelectric crystal, scanner electronic. However, the main source of image artifact is the probe tip geometry and properties of the sample. For example, probe wearing, which occurs during the contact measurement on a sample with a hard surface, could result in heavy probe shape change, causing probe-related image artifacts. Measurement could appear problematic on a sample with periodical relief structure (e.g. gratings with sub 10 μm periodicity) prepared in hard materials (e.g. silicon), when the structure height is greater than about 500 nm. In this case, probe can easily get struck during the scanning, on the hard surface as well as at the high aspect ratio relief structure, causing image artifact thus reducing measurement quality.
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SPM Nanoscratching in the Sub 100 nm Resolution
Urbánek, Michal ; Kolařík, Vladimír ; Matějka, Milan
Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is tool basically used for surface characterization. Besides that, it offers several lithographic methods (e.g. nanoscratching) to prepare structures in the sub 100 nm resolution. The nanoscratching using SPM offers a method for patterning of surface with a very high resolution based on near field interaction. By this method some tiny marks or taggants could be prepared. Therefore we used the SPM nanoscratching for preparation of nanostructures in thin soft polymer films by various tips. Nanoscratching regime of SPM is possible to operate in contact and close contact modes. In the contact mode we prepared an array of stamps with a variable size, where dimensions and depth dependency on number of pixels were inspected. For writing of these structures we used polymer films with different softness (e.g. PMMA, SU-8) and various values of setpoint, which are responsible for structures deepness.
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