Patents
Patents for G03F 1 - Originals for photomechanical production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. masks, photo-masks or reticles; Mask blanks or pellicles therefor; Containers specially adapted therefor; Preparation thereof (24,849)
05/2004
05/20/2004US20040096755 Mask-making member and its production method, mask and its making method, exposure process, and fabrication method of semiconductor device
05/20/2004US20040096754 Mask for laser irradiation and apparatus for laser crystallization using the same
05/20/2004US20040096753 Mask for laser irradiation, method of manufacturing the same, and apparatus for laser crystallization using the same
05/20/2004US20040096752 Phase-width balanced alternating phase shift mask design
05/20/2004US20040094504 Method and apparatus for dry-etching half-tone phase-shift films, half-tone phase-shift photomasks and method for the preparation thereof, and semiconductor circuits and method for the fabrication thereof
05/19/2004EP1420294A2 Method and apparatus for performing model-based layout conversion for use with dipole illumination
05/19/2004EP1419418A1 Electron beam processing
05/19/2004EP1419417A2 Method for fabricating a thin-membrane stencil mask and method for making a semiconductor device using the same
05/19/2004CN1498418A System and method of providing mask defect printablity analysis
05/19/2004CN1498359A Mask pattern correction device and mask pattern correction method, mask manufacturing method and semiconductor device manufacturing method
05/19/2004CN1497699A Pattern copy mask, manufacturing method of semiconductor device and program for making mask pattern
05/18/2004US6738859 Method and apparatus for fast aerial image simulation
05/18/2004US6737224 Method of preparing thin supported films by vacuum deposition
05/18/2004US6737205 Arrangement and method for transferring a pattern from a mask to a wafer
05/18/2004US6737201 Substrate with multilayer film, reflection type mask blank for exposure, reflection type mask for exposure and production method thereof as well as production method of semiconductor device
05/18/2004US6737200 Method for aligning a contact or a line to adjacent phase-shifter on a mask
05/18/2004US6737199 Avoids the formation of resist residue.
05/18/2004US6737198 Transparent substrate; shield pattern
05/18/2004US6736386 Covered photomask holder and method of using the same
05/13/2004WO2004040626A1 Mask, mask producing method and exposure method
05/13/2004WO2004040374A2 Photomask assembly and method for protecting the same from contaminants generated during a lithography process
05/13/2004WO2004040373A1 Multi-image reticles
05/13/2004WO2004040372A1 Multi-image reticles
05/13/2004WO2004039601A1 Thermal generation of a mask for flexography
05/13/2004WO2003100816A3 Energetic neutral particle lithographic apparatus and process
05/13/2004US20040092081 Method of manufacturing alignment mark and aligning method using the same
05/13/2004US20040091822 Accurately patterning features above and below baseline in single step
05/13/2004US20040091798 Vacuum ultraviolet transmitting silicon oxyfluoride lithography glass
05/13/2004US20040091797 Correcting design data of layout pattern; calculating area ratio and density; positional accuracy
05/13/2004US20040091796 Pellicle for lithography, and a method for producing it
05/13/2004US20040091795 Rapid, error free semiconductor batch production
05/13/2004US20040091794 Phase edge phase shift mask enforcing a width of a field gate image and fabrication method thereof
05/13/2004US20040091793 Faster wafer fabrication without wasting exposure area; simultaneous evaluation
05/13/2004US20040091792 Photoresist patterning variety of sizes and pitches; simple, easy fabrication
05/13/2004US20040091791 Scatter dots
05/13/2004US20040091790 Reducing corner rounding and image shortening
05/13/2004US20040091789 Subtractive attenuation and phase shifting; accurate opening depth; simplified manufacturing
05/13/2004US20040091788 Reduced darkening upon repeated exposures
05/13/2004US20040091142 Qualifying patterns, patterning processes, or patterning apparatus in the fabrication of microlithographic patterns
05/13/2004US20040090610 Microfabrication of pattern imprinting
05/13/2004US20040090605 Advanced mask cleaning and handling
05/13/2004DE10330599A1 Verfahren zur Herstellung von Mikroelektronik-Strukturelementen durch Ausbilden von Durchmischungsschichten aus wasserlöslichen Harzen und Resistmaterialien A process for the production of microelectronic structure elements by forming mixing layers of water-soluble resins and resist materials
05/12/2004EP1418466A2 Halftone phase shift mask blank, and method of manufacture
05/12/2004EP1417538A2 Photosensitive, flexo printing element and method for the production of newspaper flexo printing plates
05/12/2004CN1496495A Self-aligned fabrication technique for tri-tone attenuated phase-shifting masks
05/12/2004CN1495856A Orientation dependent on screen by adopting dipole illumination technigue
05/12/2004CN1495539A Production of automatic optical approximate correcting regulation
05/12/2004CN1495521A Method for implementing key size linear control in whole-chip chrome-less photoetching technique production
05/12/2004CN1495444A Method for designing phase raster graphics and method for making photomask system containing it
05/12/2004CN1495443A Reflector utilizing microimage to make exposure and its production method
05/12/2004CN1494956A Cleaning method for removing particles from surface, cleaning equipment and photo-engraving projection equipment
05/12/2004CN1149643C Pattern drawing method using charged particle beams and apparatus therefor
05/11/2004US6735745 Method and system for detecting defects
05/11/2004US6734445 Mechanized retractable pellicles and methods of use
05/11/2004US6734442 Mapping method for a microscope slide
05/11/2004US6733953 Semitransparent phase shifting mask has, in the periphery of a pattern element area, a light shielding portion which is formed by a semitransparent phase shifting portion and a transparent portion with the optimal size combination.
05/11/2004US6733933 Mask for manufacturing semiconductor device and method of manufacture thereof
05/11/2004US6733932 Mask lithography data generation method
05/11/2004US6733930 Photomask blank, photomask and method of manufacture
05/11/2004US6733929 Phase shift masking for complex patterns with proximity adjustments
05/11/2004US6733686 Method and device for removing an unnecessary film
05/06/2004WO2004038507A1 Photosensitive resin printing plate original, process for producing the same and process for producing resin relief printing plate therewith
05/06/2004WO2004038504A2 Nanometer-scale engineered structures, methods and apparatus for fabrication thereof, and applications to mask repair, enhancement, and fabrication
05/06/2004WO2004027830A3 Method and system detecting phase defects in phptomasks and wafers
05/06/2004WO2004021078A3 Vent for an optical pellicle system
05/06/2004US20040088675 Method of and computer program product for designing patterns, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
05/06/2004US20040088149 Method and apparatus for performing OPC using model curvature
05/06/2004US20040087181 Multi-layer semiconductor integrated circuits enabling stabilizing photolithography process parameters, the photomask being used, and the manufacturing method thereof
05/06/2004US20040086804 Forming a resist pattern on a microelectronic substrate; forming a coating layer comprising a water-soluble resin on resist pattern, hardening intermixed layer; and removing the non-intermixed coating layer from hardened intermixed layer
05/06/2004US20040086792 Lithographic mask for semiconductor devices with a polygonal-section etch window, in particular having a section of at least six sides
05/06/2004US20040086791 Reference data is created from corrected photomask design data that is corrected on the basis of an exposure transfer pattern, and sensor data is created by measuring shape of the photomask based on the corrected photomask design data
05/06/2004US20040086790 Mask, method of producing mask, and method of producing semiconductor device
05/06/2004US20040086789 Manufacturing method of photomask and photomask
05/06/2004US20040086788 Enables accurate critical-dimension control
05/06/2004US20040086787 Alternating aperture phase shift photomask having plasma etched isotropic quartz features
05/06/2004US20040086785 AISixOy as a new bi-layer high transmittance attenuating phase shifting mask material for 193 nanometer lithography
05/06/2004EP1415197A2 Optical proximity correction for phase shifting photolithographic masks
05/06/2004EP1415196A1 Resolution enhancement for edge phase shift masks
05/06/2004EP1414722A1 Reticle protection and transport
05/06/2004EP0877292B1 Pellicle
05/06/2004DE10246788A1 Schutzvorrichtung für lithographische Masken und Verfahren zu ihrer Verwendung Protection device for lithographic masks and methods for their use
05/05/2004CN1493923A Inspecting method and photomask
05/05/2004CN1493921A Photoetching equipment having vacuum mask plate store connected with vacuum chamber
05/04/2004US6732351 Method of forming mask for charged particle beam exposure and processing program of pattern data for forming mask for charged particle beam exposure
05/04/2004US6731378 Pellicle distortion reduction
05/04/2004US6730463 Exposure of photoresist segemnts to radiation; phase shifting
05/04/2004US6730445 Attenuated embedded phase shift photomask blanks
05/04/2004US6730444 Needle comb reticle pattern for critical dimension and registration measurements using a registration tool and methods for using same
05/04/2004US6729927 Method and apparatus for making a shadow mask array
04/2004
04/29/2004WO2004021082A3 Improved photomask having an intermediate inspection film layer
04/29/2004WO2003067330B1 Radiation patterning tools, and methods of forming radiation patterning tools
04/29/2004WO2003046628A8 Method for fabricating chirped fiber bragg gratings
04/29/2004US20040083444 Pattern transfer mask related to formation of dual damascene structure and method of forming dual damascene structure
04/29/2004US20040083439 Displacing edge segments on a fabrication layout based on proximity effects model amplitudes for correcting proximity effects
04/29/2004US20040081917 Method of manufacturing an electronic device and a semiconductor integrated circuit device
04/29/2004US20040081916 Scattering-reticle assemblies for electron-beam microlithography including a scattering-stencil reticle portion and a scattering-membrane reticle portion
04/29/2004US20040081908 Thermal generation of a mask for flexography
04/29/2004US20040081899 Able to form any pattern feature with any dimension including a dimension equal to or smaller than the resolution to be formed by exposure using a single mask implementing a phase shift effect.
04/29/2004US20040081898 Mask can be used independently of its height tolerances and of the membrane holder to be mounted thereon for a distortion-free lithographic imaging
04/29/2004US20040081897 Masks dividing patterns of a certain section and placing the parts on a plurality of masks or on different areas of the same mask and able to form the patterns of that section as before division by overlaying the masks or different areas