Micro and Nano Engineering (Jun 2023)
Water-soluble bio-sourced resists for DUV lithography in a 200/300 mm pilot line environment
Abstract
Water-based bio-sourced resists are promising candidates as alternatives for deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography by replacing current photoresists issued from petro-chemistry for microelectronics application. Chitosan films produced from seafood industry wastes enable patterning processes free of organic solvent and alkali-based developers, by substitution with water. After demonstrating high-resolution patterning at lab-scale after transfer into silica 10 mm wafer, we investigate here the industrial pre-transfer chitosan-based photoresist on the 300 mm pilot line scale at CEA-Leti for 193 nm DUV lithography.