KR20140035198A - Maskless exposure apparatus and method - Google Patents
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The present invention relates to a photolithography process for forming a thin film of a display device, and more particularly to a maskless exposure apparatus and an exposure method capable of improving reliability.
Recently, liquid crystal display devices and organic light emitting display devices having advantages such as light weight, thinness, and low power consumption are used for office automation devices and audio / video devices.
The liquid crystal display and the organic light emitting display are formed of a plurality of thin films formed by a photolithography process including a deposition process, an exposure process, a developing process, and an etching process. The exposure step selectively exposes the photosensitive film by irradiating the photosensitive film on the substrate with an exposure beam.
In a general exposure process, an exposure beam is selectively irradiated to the photosensitive film by using a mask having a pattern in which the exposure beam is transmitted, semi-transmissive, and non-transmissive.
In recent years, the exposure process is maskless exposure to remove the mask and perform exposure in order to solve the problem of process cost and process time increase due to replacement of the mask depending on the size of the display device and the type of model. The device is being applied.
The maskless exposure apparatus uses a spatial light modulator (SLM), such as a digital micro-mirror device (DMD), to expose an exposure pattern to a substrate in the form of a beam spot array. Warriors At this time, the maskless exposure apparatus selectively turns on / off each spot of the beam spot array in response to the exposure pattern.
However, in a typical maskless exposure apparatus, when a substrate on which a pattern is formed is deformed by shrinkage / expansion by heat through a previous photolithography process, the exposure process is performed based on a pattern design during the previous photolithography process. According to the degree of deformation of the substrate there was a problem that a pattern failure occurs.
An object of the present invention is to provide a maskless exposure apparatus and an exposure method that can improve the reliability.
Maskless exposure apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention,
Exposure for performing a maskless exposure process based on a measurement unit for measuring deformation of the mother substrate before performing the maskless exposure process in at least a second or later photolithography process and a pattern design for compensating for deformation of the mother substrate by the measurement unit. Contains wealth.
A maskless exposure method according to another embodiment of the present invention,
In the photolithography process after at least a second maskless exposure process based on the measurement of the deformation of the mother substrate prior to performing the maskless exposure process and the pattern design for measuring the deformation of the mother substrate to compensate for the deformation of the mother substrate It includes the step of performing.
When the photolithography process is performed using a maskless exposure apparatus at least after the second time, the deformation of the mother substrate is measured, and the deformation of the mother substrate is compensated before the exposure process of the maskless exposure apparatus according to the measurement result. By converting the pattern design so that the exposure process is performed, the reliability of pattern formation using the maskless exposure apparatus can be improved.
1 is a view schematically showing a four photolithography process according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of the maskless exposure apparatus of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a DMD control unit and a measurement unit of FIG. 2.
4 is a diagram illustrating a mother substrate including a positioning pattern according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating the positioning pattern and the previous positioning pattern detected by the measurement unit of the present invention in coordinates.
6 is a diagram illustrating a mother substrate including a positioning pattern according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
The present invention provides a maskless exposure process based on a measurement unit for measuring the deformation of the mother substrate before performing the maskless exposure process in at least a second or later photolithography process and a pattern design for compensating for deformation of the mother substrate by the measurement unit. It includes an exposure unit to perform.
In addition, the present invention is based on the step of measuring the deformation of the mother substrate before performing the maskless exposure process in at least a second and subsequent photolithography process and the pattern design to compensate for the deformation of the mother substrate by measuring the deformation of the mother substrate And performing a maskless exposure process.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Referring to the accompanying drawings, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail.
One embodiment of the present invention is intended to enable a person skilled in the art to fully understand the technical idea of the present invention. Therefore, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described below, and other embodiments can be added on the basis of the technical idea of the present invention.
1 is a view schematically showing a four photolithography process according to an embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, a manufacturing process of a display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is manufactured by four photolithography processes. The display device may be defined as a manufacturing process of an array substrate on which a switching element such as a thin film transistor is formed.
The four photolithography processes include first and second
The first
The second
The first
The second
Here, the deformation of the mother substrate means the deformation of the mother substrate itself by contraction and expansion of the mother substrate in an environment where high temperature and low temperature are repeated in the photolithography process. That is, the deformation of the mother substrate means the bending including the expansion or contraction to the outside.
The first and
Each of the first and
Here, the first and
In the present invention, a four photolithography process of alternately performing the first and second
That is, the first to the third exposure process may be a mask exposure process, the fourth exposure process may be a maskless exposure process. In addition, the first and second exposure processes may be performed in a maskless exposure process, the third and fourth exposure processes may be performed in a mask exposure process, and all exposure processes may be performed only in a maskless exposure process.
The first and second
2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of the maskless exposure apparatus of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a DMD control unit and a measurement unit of FIG. 2.
As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the
In addition, the
In addition, the
The
The
Specifically, the
The
For example, when a memory cell of the
The beam expander 234 widens the irradiation area of the exposure beam emitted from the
The
The
The DMD controller C for controlling the
The
The reference data of the coordinate comparing
Here, the positioning pattern is formed at an edge corresponding to the non-display area of the mother substrate and has a function for aligning the mother substrate during the manufacturing process.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, when performing a photolithography process using the
Therefore, the present invention has an advantage of improving the reliability of pattern formation using the
4 is a diagram illustrating a mother substrate including a positioning pattern according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a positioning pattern and a previous positioning pattern detected by a measurement unit of the present invention as coordinates. to be.
As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the positioning pattern P according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention is formed at the edge of the non-display area NA of the mother substrate G. As shown in FIG.
The mother substrate G includes a plurality of display areas AA and a non-display area NA positioned around the plurality of display areas AA.
The present invention does not include a measurement step in the progress of the first photolithography process, a mask etching process or a maskless etching process is performed.
In the first photolithography process, the mother substrate G is not deformed until the mother substrate G is provided. Therefore, the mother substrate G performs the measurement step in the first photolithography process. There is no need to do it.
In the photolithography process performed after at least a second time, in the case of performing the maskless etching process, the positioning pattern P of the mother substrate G is used before the maskless etching process. Measure the deformation in coordinates.
P 1 to P 4 are positions of the first positioning pattern set when the first pattern is formed in the previous photolithography process, and P 1 ′ to P 4 ′ are measured at the measurement step before the maskless etching process. 2 Position of positioning pattern.
The measurement unit of the present invention compares the position of the first positioning pattern with the position of the second positioning pattern, calculates the deformation of the mother substrate G, and generates coordinate transformation data.
The coordinate transformation data may be calculated by
The x 'and y' mean a second pattern whose coordinates corresponding to the first pattern before deformation of the mother substrate G are compensated by calculating positions of the first and second positioning patterns.
For example, in an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the first pattern formed on the second pixel of the first line formed in the etching process before the maskless etching process is changed in position by contraction / expansion of the mother substrate, and through coordinate transformation data of the measurement unit. The second pattern may be formed to compensate for the changed position by using the positioning pattern to correspond to the corresponding pixel.
6 is a diagram illustrating a mother substrate including a positioning pattern according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
As illustrated in FIG. 6, the positioning pattern P according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention is formed at the edge of the unit display area AA of the mother substrate G. As shown in FIG.
The positioning pattern P is formed at each edge of the unit display area AA to compare the first positioning pattern of the previous exposure process with the second positioning pattern after the pattern is formed based on the unit display area AA. Therefore, it has an advantage of preventing a pattern defect caused by deformation of the mother substrate (G).
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. Therefore, the technical scope of the present invention should not be limited to the contents described in the detailed description of the specification, but should be defined by the claims.
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And an exposure unit configured to perform a maskless exposure process based on a pattern design for compensating for deformation of the mother substrate by the measurement unit.
The exposure unit includes:
A light source for generating a light source beam;
A digital micro mirror element for converting the light into an exposure beam having image information to be exposed;
A beam expander for expanding an irradiation area of an exposure beam from said digital micromirror element;
A multi-lens array for separating and condensing the extended exposure beam from the beam expander into a plurality;
A projection lens for adjusting the resolution of exposure beams collected from the multilens array; And
And a digital micro-mirror device (DMD) controller for controlling a pattern design of an exposure beam from the digital micromirror element.
And a positioning pattern formed at an edge of the mother substrate, wherein the measurement unit determines the positioning pattern of the mother substrate, wherein the position information of the positioning pattern of the mother substrate before the previous exposure process is performed after the exposure process. A coordinate comparison unit for comparing the position information of the; And
And a coordinate conversion unit for supplying coordinate conversion data to the pattern generation unit in accordance with a comparison result from the coordinate comparison unit.
The DMD controller may include a pattern generator configured to generate a pattern design for compensating for deformation of the mother substrate by using coordinate transformation data from the coordinate converter; And
And a storage unit storing a pattern design generated from the pattern generator.
The mother substrate is divided into a plurality of display regions and a non-display region positioned around the plurality of display regions, and includes a positioning pattern formed at each edge of the plurality of display regions.
And performing a maskless exposure process based on a pattern design measuring the deformation of the mother substrate to compensate for the deformation of the mother substrate.
The maskless exposure step,
Generating an exposure beam;
Converting the exposure beam to have image information to be exposed by a digital micromirror element;
Expanding an irradiation area of an exposure beam from said digital micromirror element;
Separating and condensing the extended exposure beam into a plurality;
Adjusting the resolution of the focused exposure beams; And
And controlling a pattern design of an exposure beam from the digital micromirror element by a digital micro-mirror device control.
And a positioning pattern formed at an edge of the mother substrate, wherein the measuring step includes positioning of the mother substrate whose position information of the positioning pattern of the mother substrate before the previous exposure process is measured after the exposure process. Comparing location information of a pattern; And
And a coordinate conversion unit for supplying coordinate conversion data to the DMD control unit according to a comparison result.
Generating, by the DMD controller, a pattern design that compensates for deformation of the mother substrate using the coordinate transformation data; And
And a storage unit in which the pattern design is stored.
And the mother substrate is divided into a plurality of display areas and a non-display area positioned around the plurality of display areas, and includes a positioning pattern formed at each edge of the plurality of display areas.
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