KR20130116674A - Exposure apparatus - Google Patents
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BACKGROUND OF THE
Generally, an exposure apparatus is a device for transferring a desired pattern onto a photosensitive agent by placing a film on which a desired pattern is formed on a substrate, a wafer, glass or the like having a photo-resist (PR) .
Conventionally, in an exposure apparatus for exposing a fine pitch circuit, a configuration of expensive equipment for producing balanced light has been essential. However, in the present invention, by omitting the facility for the configuration of expensive balanced light, only the vertical light emitted by the lenticular is configured to replace this function.
In the exposure operation, a light source, a flat plate coated with a photosensitive agent and opposed to the light source, and a transparent part and an opaque part adhering to the upper surface of the flat plate are used.
When light is irradiated from a light source to a film, the transparent portion transmits light and the opaque portion blocks light. When the exposure agent is exposed through the light source, the photosensitive agent applied to the flat plate is cured only in the portion through which the light is transmitted through the transparent portion of the film.
After the exposure operation using such an exposure apparatus, the uncured portions of the photosensitive agent are removed with water or a developing solution to form a circuit pattern by the exposure unit on the flat plate.
In conventional exposure apparatuses, when the thickness of a photosensitive agent applied to a flat plate becomes thick (for example, 50 microns or more), the exposed state of the photosensitive agent becomes unclear or impossible.
In addition, when the pitch of the circuit is 10 to 20 microns, a high defect rate is caused.
The present invention has been made so that not only a cost can be reduced by forming a low-cost vertical light exposure device, but also a circuit of a fine pitch can be easily manufactured. The present invention uses a light-condensing function and a vertical light function of a lenticure in an exposure apparatus, so that a clean exposure can be performed even if the thickness of the photosensitizer is several tens of microns to several hundreds of microns. Even if the pitch of the circuit is 2 to 20 microns, It is an object of the present invention to provide a lenticular exposure apparatus capable of forming a clear and clean circuit.
The most significant feature of the present invention is that the extremely fine circuit can be dimmed. Conventionally, a balanced light exposure apparatus is used for extremely minute circuit light exposure. Such a balanced light exposure apparatus is complicated in equipment and requires a high production cost. However, the present invention is not limited to a complicated apparatus or expensive equipment, And can achieve the object of the present invention.
The present invention is advantageous in that the vertical light to be irradiated is a vertical light having no light diffusion or scattering action, and can expose an extremely fine pattern.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a light source device comprising: a light source emitting light; The light source unit includes a vertical light source for guiding vertical light generated at the center of the lenticular lens.
The light source device of the present invention is located on the top of the film on which the pattern is formed. Since the light source device of the present invention is spaced apart from the film by a predetermined distance, the light source device and the film can be moved without friction.
In the present invention, relative to the relationship between the exposure apparatus and the film, it is possible to relatively easily expose the photoresist even in a large area in a short time, and also to use the condensed vertical light by the lenticure The accuracy of the exposure can be in the order of 1 micron to 2 micron units.
In the present invention, by using the condensing function of each of the lenticurea lenses of Lenticular lenses in the exposure apparatus to form the vertical light, it is possible to perform a clear exposure even if the thickness of the photosensitive agent is a thick layer of the photosensitive agent of several tens of microns or more, Because scattering is prevented, clean exposure is possible even if the pitch of the circuit is 1 to 2 microns. The safety of the operation is ensured and the circuit configuration without defects and clear and clear is possible. In addition, even a wide-area photosensitive agent can be easily and economically exposed through the movement of the vertical light source.
In the present invention, the light source device performs a relative movement in the left-right direction or the back-and-forth direction with respect to the film on which the pattern is formed. The concept of such a relative movement motion includes the case where the film is transported while the light source device is stopped and the case where the film is transported while the light source device is stationary.
As described above, the vertical light lenticular exposure apparatus according to the present invention uses vertical light at the central portion of the lenticular lens located under the light source. Further, the present invention utilizes the independent light condensing performance of each lenticular lens constituting the lenticular.
By using the condensing function, which is a physical phenomenon of each lenticular lens, in the exposure apparatus, the vertical light lenticular exposure apparatus of the present invention can perform a clear exposure even when the thickness of the photosensitive agent is several tens of microns or more, Even with a fine pitch, a clear and clear exposure can be achieved by vertical light without scattering of light or diffusion dispersion. In other words, it is possible to construct a circuit that is clean and free of defects.
In addition, since the expensive function is not used to make parallel light as in the prior art, the function of the conventional expensive apparatus can be extremely easily performed by making full use of the physical function of the lenticular lens.
In contrast to the conventional technique, it is difficult to expose a large area, whereas the present invention has a great feature that exposure of a large area can be extremely easily realized by enlarging the transfer area of the light source device.
1 is a view showing a structure of a vertical light lenticular exposure apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention,
2 is a perspective view of a typical Lenticular,
3 is a view showing a state in which light of a light source passes through a general lenticule to expose a photosensitizer,
4 is a view showing a state in which a photosensitizer is exposed by vertical light generated in a central portion of each lens of a general lenticular,
5 is an explanatory view for explaining a configuration of a vertical optical lenticular according to the present invention,
FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a vertical light lenticule that implements vertical light through a lens shield of Lenticular.
FIG. 7 is an explanatory view for explaining a vertical light lenticule for realizing vertical light through a light amount slit of a lenticular.
Hereinafter, various embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail, but the present invention is not limited to the following embodiments unless it departs from the gist thereof.
1 is a view showing a structure of a vertical light lenticular exposure apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
The body of the vertical light
Generally, in order to sensitize a photosensitive agent, a flat plate 8 having a
The light is irradiated through the patterned film through the light source device and the photosensitive agent is exposed according to the shape of the pattern formed on the film by the irradiated light.
The light source device (2) of the present invention comprises a light source (4) emitting light and a vertical light source (5) located below the light source.
The light source device of the present invention may include a
The light source device according to the present invention is positioned above the film on which the pattern is formed, and is positioned at a predetermined distance from the film so as to make relative movement without friction with respect to the film. A flat plate 8 on which a
The flat plate 8 is a substrate for forming a circuit pattern, in which an exposure section is formed for the exposure process of the photosensitizer to make a circuit corresponding to the pattern of the film on top of the photosensitive layer.
The
2 is a perspective view showing a typical lenticular.
As shown in FIG. 2, the
3 shows a state in which the light of the light source passes through the general lenticule to expose the photosensitive agent
Fig. After the photosensitive layer is adhered to the lower part of the lenticule, the light of the light source is irradiated
The
When the light is irradiated through the lenticule, the exposed portion and the non-exposed portion are regularly arranged in the photosensitive layer adhered to the lenticule. The lenticule can be described as a transparent body in which one surface is planar and the other surface is a convex lens, which is a part of a cylinder, connected in plural in the longitudinal direction. It has the function of condensing light by functioning as a convex lens called Lenticular.
As shown in the figure, when the light of the
In describing the drawings of the present invention, it is needless to say that a film formed with a pattern is placed between the vertical light-transmissive layer and the photosensitive layer. For convenience of explanation, the film on which the pattern is formed is not illustrated and proceeded to explain.
4 is a view showing a state in which a photosensitizer is exposed by vertical light generated in the vicinity of a central portion of each lenticure lens of a general lenticular.
The curved surface of the Lenticular lens condenses the light received from the top to transmit light to the underlying photosensitive layer. At this time, the light located at the center of the lens of the Lenticular lens is vertically downwardly downward, and at the curved portion of the Lenticular lens, which is deviated from the center of the lens, the light is refracted at a predetermined angle to condense the light.
In the present invention, the function of vertically lowering the light in the central portion of each lenticular lens is called vertical light Lenticular. When the central regions of the respective Lenticular lenses are cut and connected to the side, the irradiated light functions to vertically downward.
In the present invention, the central region of each lenticular lens is not limited to the central portion of the lenticular lens but is defined as including a region of a small region on the right and left sides with respect to the central region.
The light received from the
And the light irradiated from the
Also, the area of each lenticure lens, in which light is irradiated in an almost vertical direction to the exposure layer with a minimum refracting action, is defined as a vertical optical area of the lenticular.
Therefore, the
5 is an explanatory view for explaining a configuration of an embodiment of the vertical optical lenticular according to the present invention.
The vertical optical lenticular according to the present invention is configured as various embodiments.
5 is a typical vertical lenticular lens, in which only the
In order to fabricate the vertical optical lenticular according to the present embodiment, it is possible to mechanically manufacture the lenticular lenses by forming the left and right sides of the lenticular lenses in a small range around the center, have.
Alternatively, a vertical lenticular lens may be fabricated by making a small amount of photoresist, then plated with photoresist.
The pitch of the vertical light lenticular in this embodiment is inevitably smaller than the pitch of the normal lenticular. This is because the lenticular lens is constituted only by the region near the center of the general lenticular lens. In the present invention, it is preferable that the pitch of the vertical light lenticular is set to a very small pitch with a size of several tens of microns.
FIG. 6 is an explanatory view of a vertical lens cantilever constituting a lens shield of a lenticular according to another embodiment of the present invention.
In this embodiment, except for the vertical
FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a vertical optical lenticular according to another embodiment of the present invention, which realizes vertical light through a light transmitting slit formed at the bottom of the lenticular.
A light transmission slit 30 is formed in the lower portion of the lenticular. The light transmitting slit is configured at the lower part of the central portion of each
The light passes through the light transmission slit 30 through the lenticule, and then is irradiated to the photosensitive layer 31 to which the photosensitive agent is applied to form an
It is preferable that the light transmitting slit 30 has a fine gap so that the light transmitting slit 30 can move with respect to each other without friction with the patterned film.
The light transmitting slit 30 may be constituted by printing. That is, a transparent portion is formed along the longitudinal direction of the lenticular lens in the lower center of the lower center of the respective lenticular lenses, and the opaque portion in which the remaining portions are not allowed to pass the light is printed.
This also corresponds to the lenticurea in which the light transmitting slit is formed along the longitudinal direction of the lenticurea lens at the lower part of the central part of each lenticular lens.
In another embodiment of the present invention, the lens shield of the lenticular lens shown in Fig. 6 and the light transmitting slit of the lenticular lens of Fig. 7 are simultaneously formed in the lenticular lens.
It is general that each of the lenticular lenses of the present invention is called a vertical optical lenticular lens. However, in the present invention, not only a single lenticular lens but also a configuration in which a few lenticular lenses such as two, three, or four lenses are connected may be included. In the present invention, the smaller the number of the lenticular lenses is, the longer the exposure time becomes. Also, when the number of lenses of the Lenticular lens is the same, it is natural that the smaller the pitch of the Lenticular lens is, the longer the exposure time becomes.
In general, Lenticure means connecting a large number of Lenticular lenses. However, if the number of lenses of the lenticular lens in the present invention is at least one, it is referred to as lenticular. Therefore, it is needless to say that the number of lenses of the Lenticular lens is one.
The present invention can be applied not only to the vertical light lenticular exposure apparatus described above as an embodiment but also to a small range of left and right constant regions centering on the central part of each lenticular lens, Type exposure apparatus belong to the scope of the present invention.
In addition, in all the embodiments of the present invention, a Fresnel lens can be disposed on the upper portion of the lenticular to induce more efficient light condensation. This also belongs to an embodiment of the present invention.
In the present invention, a device including a light source and a vertical optical lenticular is defined as a light source device.
The light sources in the present invention are various. LEDs and laser light sources are also included. The light source used in the present invention may be constituted by a plurality of point light sources, or may be constituted by a shape of a linear light source or a surface light source type by connecting point light sources.
In the present invention, when the light emitted from the light source is irradiated to the film through the vertical light lenticular, the light irradiated to the film is seen as a plurality of lines. The number of lines corresponding to the number of lenticular lenses constituting the vertical optical lenticular is irradiated onto the film.
In order to irradiate the entire surface of the large-area film with the vertical light irradiated on the line, it is necessary to transfer the light source device. Therefore, the light source device of the present invention includes a conveying means for conveying the light source device. However, if the light source device is fixed, the base on which the lower photosensitizer is placed may be moved. The transfer of the present invention is satisfactory if the movement of either the light source device or the base on which the photosensitizer is placed is possible. When the light source device is moved from the left side to the right side or from the front side to the rear side, the entire light-sensitive portion is exposed with the movement of the light source device.
The light source device in the present invention is located on the top of the film. In the present invention, in general, the light source device is slightly spaced from the film to allow relative movement of the light source device and the film. In a special case, however, the light source device may be moved in contact with the film.
In order to allow the film and the light source device to move without friction, the film and the light source device are separated from each other by a predetermined distance. The present invention can form a large-area exposed portion through relative movement between the light source device and the film.
As a specific embodiment of the moving means of the light source device in the present invention, the light source device can be constituted by a rail portion and a driving portion.
The drive unit is formed of a drive motor having a drive gear, and a rail gear may be formed in the rail unit to engage the drive gear. As described above, the vertical light lenticular exposure apparatus according to the present invention uses a condensing function of lenticure in an exposure apparatus, thereby enabling a clear exposure even if the thickness of the photosensitizer is several tens of microns or more. Even if the pitch of the circuit is several microns, It is possible to construct a clean circuit with no defects due to exposure and clear. This means that vertical light can maximally prevent scattering and reflections of light to be irradiated, which means that it is possible to provide an ideal, clean exposure.
As another embodiment of the present invention, the vertical light exposure apparatus may be configured by configuring only the light transmitting slits in the lower portion of the light source without using a lenticula. That is, the light of the light source device is irradiated onto the film on which the pattern is formed, and the light source device is composed of a light source and a light transmitting slat, and the light source device can be configured as a vertical light exposure machine, which moves relative to the film.
At this time, the light transmitting slits are composed of an opaque portion formed between the transparent portion formed long and the transparent portion. At this time, the width of the transparent portion is preferably composed of a size of several microns, and the width of the opaque portion is preferably composed of a size of several microns to several tens of microns. In this case, it is preferable that the interval between the light transmitting slits and the film is configured to be extremely narrow.
As another embodiment of the present invention, a combination of convex lenticura and concave lenticura can be used to make an exposure machine capable of more precise work. That is, light of the light source device is irradiated onto the film on which the pattern is formed, and the light source device is composed of a light source and a lenticular combination. To make a large exposure machine, the light source device is configured to move relative to the film.
In the present invention, the optical system constituted by combining the convex lenticura and the concave lenticula is defined as the lenticula combination. The lenticular assembly in the present invention may be composed of a plurality of convex lenticuras, or may be composed of a plurality of concave lenticulas, or may be configured by appropriately combining at least one convex lenticura and at least one concave lenticula. .
One of the most important means of seeing stereoscopic image is the convex lenticule which we generally know. It is made of a transparent material called convex lenticew, and one side is composed of a plane, and the other side is composed of a part of the convex lens continuously in the longitudinal direction. In the present invention, the convex lens corresponds to the convex lens, and concave lenses are defined as concave lenticuras.
In the case where the lenticular assembly is formed by combining the convex lenticura and the concave lenticula, the pitches of the convex lenticura and the concave lenticula must be configured in the same manner. When the light is irradiated to the lenticular assembly in which the convex lenticura and the concave lenticula are combined, the light is condensed through the convex lenticura, and the condensed light is divided into a plurality of fine lights through the concave lenticula.
That is, the light source of the line form which has a finer line width is comprised. In detail, when light passes through the convex lenticura, the light is composed of condensed light in the form of lines as many as the number of convex lenses. One convex lenticura lens is represented by the focused light in the form of a line. When the light is irradiated to the lenticular assembly in which the concave lenticura is positioned below the convex lenticura, the light condensed by the convex lenticura is finely divided again by the concave lenticura below. Through the experiment, the light collected through one convex lenticura was divided into three condensed lines through one concave lenticura. By using this phenomenon, the present invention provides an advantage of condensing the light to be irradiated with vertical light having an extremely fine line shape.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. . In addition, in the present invention, the light source device is configured to move relative to the film, so that exposure of a large area is generally performed. However, the exposure of the light source device and the film does not have to be relatively performed when the exposure of a narrow area is performed. This case is also part of the invention.
1: Exposure device 2: Light source device
6: Film 7: Photosensitizer
8: Plate 9: Substrate structure
11: Lenticular lens
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And the light source device includes a light source and a lenticular assembly.
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PCT/KR2012/009685 WO2013073873A1 (en) | 2011-11-16 | 2012-11-15 | Linear light source generating device, exposure having linear light source generating device, and lenticular system used for linear light source generating device |
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