CN111128678A - Method for removing particles on mask protective film - Google Patents

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CN111128678A
CN111128678A CN201911300671.9A CN201911300671A CN111128678A CN 111128678 A CN111128678 A CN 111128678A CN 201911300671 A CN201911300671 A CN 201911300671A CN 111128678 A CN111128678 A CN 111128678A
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杨长华
尤春
刘维维
季书凤
薛文卿
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Abstract

The invention discloses a method for removing particles on a mask protective film, which comprises the following steps: s1, finding the positions of the particles on the mask protective film; s2, dropwise adding isopropanol or absolute ethyl alcohol to the position of the particles; s3, enabling water drops of isopropanol or absolute ethyl alcohol to roll back and forth at the particles, and separating the particles adsorbed and coated on the surface of the protective film from the protective film; s4, sucking the water drops of the isopropanol or the absolute ethyl alcohol by using a dust-free cloth. According to the method for removing the particles on the mask protection film, provided by the invention, the dust particles with strong adsorbability are removed by rolling of isopropanol or absolute ethyl alcohol water drops to replace a nitrogen gun for blowing, so that the light transmittance of the protection film is prevented from being damaged due to overlarge nitrogen pressure, the steps are simple, convenient and practical, the production processes of film detachment, cleaning, detection, protection film installation and the like caused by the fact that the particles cannot be removed are reduced, the production period is shortened, and the production cost is saved.

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Method for removing particles on mask protective film
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of mask manufacturing, and relates to a method for removing particles on a mask protective film.
Background
The mask protection film is a transparent film adhered to the aluminum alloy frame to prevent dust from falling on one side of the mask pattern, and dust particles can only fall on the protection film just because of the protection of the film. Generally, the protective film consists of a transparent film, an aluminum alloy support and an adhesive, and the principle is that a layer of film with the light transmittance of more than 98% is arranged on one surface of a mask pattern, and the frame height of the film is 3.8-6.0 mm. If small particles fall off from the protective film, according to the imaging principle in physics, the particles attached to the protective film form a blurred image on the surface of the wafer during exposure, which interferes with local light intensity to a certain extent, and when the particles are large to a certain extent, shadows are left on the wafer, thereby affecting the wafer yield. Most of particles on the traditional removal protective film are blown by a nitrogen gun, the nitrogen blowing can only remove the particles with weak adsorbability, large particles are blown out easily to form fine particles on a beach, and the die protective film is blown out easily when the nitrogen pressure is large.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a method for removing particles on a mask protective film, which solves the technical problems in the prior art, achieves good effect of removing the particles, reduces the probability of film detachment caused by residual particles on the surface of the protective film, and reduces the production cost.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the technical scheme that:
a method for removing particles from a protective film of a mask, comprising the steps of: providing a mask plate, placing a protective film support on the mask plate, arranging a mask protective film on the protective film support, finding the particle position on the mask protective film in a bright environment, dripping an isopropanol solution to the particle position, slightly rolling the isopropanol solution at the particle position back and forth, separating the particles adsorbed on the surface of the protective film from the mask protective film by using the dissolution and permeability of the isopropanol or absolute ethyl alcohol, finally sucking the isopropanol water drops adsorbed with the particles by using dust-free cloth, blowing the surface of the mask protective film by using a nitrogen gun, volatilizing a little solution remained on the surface, guiding the isopropanol water drops to a frame surrounded by the edge of the mask plate in the sucking and drying process, and avoiding secondary pollution to the protective film because the dust-free cloth is not contacted with the mask protective film.
Furthermore, a YAMADA strong light lamp is turned on and irradiates towards the mask protective film to find the existence positions of particles on the mask protective film, the brightness of the YAMADA strong light lamp is 15-24W, and fine particles on the protective film cannot be seen clearly by a common strong light lamp.
Furthermore, a small amount of isopropanol with the purity of 90-99% is sucked by a clean dropper and is dripped to the position of the particles of the protective film, the isopropanol with the purity of 90-99% is required to be cleaned by an isopropanol solution with the purity of 90-99% before the dropper is used, the purity of the required isopropanol solution must reach 90-99%, and secondary pollution to the protective film is avoided.
Furthermore, a dust-free cloth with the cleanliness of 10000 grades is used for absorbing dry isopropanol water drops, the nitrogen pressure is adjusted to 170-245kPa, and the included angle between the nitrogen gun head and the plane of the mask protective film 1 is 30-60 degrees.
Further, the isopropanol solution may be replaced with absolute ethanol.
Further, the mask comprises a base layer, an anti-corrosion layer, a metal layer and a light resistance layer which are sequentially arranged from bottom to top, wherein the metal layer is arranged in a groove of the light resistance layer, the surfaces of the metal layer and the light resistance layer are flush, an oxidation layer with the thickness of 30-60nm is arranged between the metal layer and the light resistance layer, a buffer layer is arranged on one surface of the base layer away from the anti-corrosion layer, and the thickness of the buffer layer is 10-25 nm.
Furthermore, the base layer is made of quartz glass, soda glass or borosilicate glass, the thickness of the anti-corrosion layer is 20-40nm, the anti-corrosion performance of the mask is improved, the anti-corrosion layer is made of silicon dioxide, the metal layer is made of chromium, and the thickness of the metal layer is 90-100 nm.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. the rolling of the isopropanol or absolute ethyl alcohol water drops can remove dust particles with strong adsorbability, the risk of increasing production processes such as membrane detaching, cleaning, detecting, protective membrane installing and the like due to the fact that the particles on the protective membrane cannot be removed is reduced, the steps are simple, convenient and practical, the production period is shortened, and the production cost is saved;
2. and the isopropanol or absolute ethyl alcohol water drop rolling method is used for replacing a nitrogen gun for blowing, so that the light transmittance of the protective film is prevented from being damaged due to overlarge nitrogen pressure.
3. The mask plate comprises a base layer, an anti-corrosion layer, a metal layer and a light resistance layer which are sequentially arranged from bottom to top, wherein the metal layer is arranged in a groove of the light resistance layer, the surfaces of the metal layer and the light resistance layer are flush, an oxidation layer with the thickness of 30-60nm is arranged between the metal layer and the light resistance layer, and a buffer layer is arranged on one surface of the base layer away from the anti-corrosion layer.
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FIG. 1 is a side view of a reticle with a protective film installed according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a side view of the present invention finding the location of particles on a protective film under a powerful light;
FIG. 3 is a side view of the present invention dropping drops of isopropyl alcohol or absolute ethyl alcohol at the particle sites on the protective film;
FIG. 4 is a side view of a water droplet rolling on the protective film of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a side view of the present invention with a dust free cloth to suck water droplets;
FIG. 6 is a schematic representation of the protective film of the present invention before removal of the particles;
FIG. 7 is a diagram of a protective film of the present invention with particles removed;
FIG. 8 is a schematic structural view of a reticle of the present invention;
wherein, 1-mask protective film; 2-granules; 3-protective film support; 4-mask plate; 5-a strong light; 6-a dropper; 7-water drop; 8-dust-free cloth; 9-a base layer; 10-an anti-corrosion layer; 11-a metal layer; 12-a photoresist layer.
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The embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that the advantages and features of the invention can be more easily understood by those skilled in the art, and the scope of the invention will be clearly and clearly defined.
As shown in fig. 1 to 8, a method for removing particles from a protective film of a mask, comprising the steps of:
providing a mask 4, placing a protective film support 3 on the mask 4, and arranging a mask protective film 1 on the protective film support 3;
step S1, using YAMADA strong light lamp, adjusting the brightness to 15-20W, finding the particle position on the mask protective film 1 in the bright environment, as shown in FIGS. 1-2 and 6;
step S2, sucking a small amount of isopropanol solution with the purity of 90-99% by using a clean dropper 6, dripping the isopropanol solution to the position of the particle 2, slightly shaking the mask plate 4 back and forth, rolling the isopropanol solution to and forth at the position of the particle 2, separating the particle 2 adsorbed and coated on the surface of the mask protective film 1 from the mask protective film 1 by using the dissolution and permeability of isopropanol or absolute ethyl alcohol, and taking away the particle and the isopropanol solution together, as shown in figures 3-4;
step S3, finally, sucking dry the isopropanol water drops 7 adsorbing the particles 2 by using a piece of dust-free cloth 8, wherein the isopropanol water drops 7 are the mixture of isopropanol and the particles 2 on the mask protective film, the isopropanol water drops 7 with the particles 2 are guided to a frame surrounded by the edge of the mask 4 in the sucking dry process, the dust-free cloth is not in contact with the mask protective film 1, and secondary pollution to the mask protective film 1 is avoided, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 7, the mask protective film 1 is clean and bright, no particles 2 or other impurities exist, a nitrogen gun can be used for blowing the surface of the mask protective film 1 according to actual requirements, the nitrogen pressure is adjusted to 172-245kPa, the included angle between the gun head of the nitrogen gun and the plane of the mask protective film 1 is 30-60 degrees, and a little solution remained on the surface volatilizes.
The invention can also use absolute ethyl alcohol to replace isopropanol solution, the purity of the absolute ethyl alcohol is 99.5 percent, the absolute ethyl alcohol is volatile, a nitrogen gun is not needed to blow the surface of the mask protective film 1, and the mask protective film 1 with smaller thinness is prevented from being blown by overlarge pressure.
As shown in FIG. 8, the mask 4 comprises a substrate 9, an anti-corrosion layer 10, a metal layer 11 and a photoresist layer 12, which are sequentially arranged from bottom to top, wherein the metal layer 11 is arranged in a groove of the photoresist layer 12, the surfaces of the metal layer 11 and the photoresist layer are flush, an oxide layer with the thickness of 30-60nm is arranged between the metal layer 11 and the photoresist layer 12, a buffer layer is arranged on one surface of the substrate 9 away from the anti-corrosion layer 10, the buffer layer is 10-25nm thick, the substrate 9 is quartz glass, soda glass or borosilicate glass, the anti-corrosion layer 10 is 20-40nm thick, the anti-corrosion performance of the mask is improved, the anti-corrosion layer 10 is made of silicon dioxide, the metal layer 11 is made of chromium, the metal layer 11 is 90-100nm thick, and the photoresist layer 12 is made of a photoresist material.
The above description is only an embodiment of the present invention, and not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all technical fields in which the equivalent structures or equivalent processes performed by the contents of the present specification and the drawings are transformed, or directly or indirectly applied to other related technical parameters, etc. are included in the scope of the present invention.

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1. A method for removing particles from a protective film of a mask, comprising the steps of: providing a mask plate, placing a protective film support on the mask plate, arranging a mask protective film on the protective film support, finding the positions of particles on the mask protective film in a bright environment, dripping an isopropanol solution to the positions of the particles, rolling the isopropanol solution to and fro at the positions of the particles to separate the particles adsorbed on the surface of the protective film from the mask protective film, finally sucking the isopropanol water drops adsorbing the particles by using dust-free cloth, guiding the isopropanol water drops to a frame surrounded by the edge of the mask plate in the sucking and drying process, and enabling the dust-free cloth not to be in contact with the mask protective film.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the YAMADA floodlight is turned on, and the YAMADA floodlight is irradiated toward the mask protective film to find the existence position of the particles on the mask protective film, and the brightness of the YAMADA floodlight is 15-24W.
3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a dropping nozzle is used to drop a solution of isopropyl alcohol to the position of the particles, the solution of isopropyl alcohol has a purity of 90-99%, and the dropping nozzle is cleaned with the solution of isopropyl alcohol before use.
4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a dust-free cloth with a cleanliness of 10000 grade is used to suck the water drops of isopropyl alcohol, and a nitrogen gun is used to purge the surface of the mask protective film, the nitrogen pressure is adjusted to 170-245kPa, and the angle between the tip of the nitrogen gun and the plane of the mask protective film is 30-60 °.
5. The method for removing particles from a protective film of a mask as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the isopropyl alcohol solution is replaced with absolute ethyl alcohol.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the mask comprises a base layer, an anti-corrosion layer, a metal layer and a photoresist layer sequentially arranged from bottom to top, the metal layer is arranged in the groove of the photoresist layer and the surface of the metal layer and the surface of the photoresist layer are flush, and an oxide layer is arranged between the metal layer and the photoresist layer.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein the base layer is quartz glass, soda glass or borosilicate glass, the anti-corrosion layer is silicon dioxide, the anti-corrosion layer has a thickness of 20-40nm, the metal layer is chromium, and the metal layer has a thickness of 90-100 nm.
8. The method of claim 6, wherein the photoresist layer is made of photoresist material, a buffer layer is disposed on a surface of the base layer away from the etch-resistant layer, and the buffer layer has a thickness of 10-25 nm.
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