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• This disclosure is directed to a silica-titania glass doped with halogens and metal oxides having a very low CTE slope and a method for making such glass.
• EUVL Extreme Ultra- Violet Lithography
• MPU/DRAMs MPU - Micro Processing Unit , and DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory
• the EUVL scanners which are used to produce these Integrated Chips are presently being produced in small numbers to demonstrate this new technology.
• Optics, particularly reflective optics, are an important part of these scanners.
• Low thermal expansion glass for example ULE ® glass (Corning Incorporated) is currently being used for making the projection optics systems.
• ULE ® Glass is currently being used for making the projection optics systems.
• the major advantages of a low thermal expansion glass such as ULE ® Glass are polishability to the required finish, its CTE (coefficient of thermal expansion or expansivity) control, and its dimensional stability.
• the specifications are becoming more stringent for the newer optics systems.
• the specifications for the materials used in the optics systems are required to meet tighter and tighter requirements.
• the present disclosure is directed to a material that can meet these tighter requirements.
• the material disclosed herein has an expansivity slope, that is significantly improved over that of the materials presently available. Summary
• the present disclosure is directed to a doped silica-titania glass D-Si0 2 -Ti0 2 , herein also called DST glass, having an expansivity (or CTE) slope that is significantly improved over the expansivity slope of the presently available binary silica-titania glass Si0 2 -Ti0 2 with the dopants being halogens and one or more oxides of Al, Nb and Ta.
• DST glass the improvement in the glass' expansivity slope exceeds the improvements that are possible by adjustment of the annealing cycle alone and/or allows for the same improvement in expansivity slope to be obtained via faster annealing cycles which greatly reduces costs. This is accomplished via a combination of both structural and compositional changes.
• the DST glass has a halogen, for example fluorine, F, and one or more of the oxides of Al, Ta and Nb, added to a titania doped silica glass system.
• the DST glass contains 0.1 wt.% to 5 wt.% fluorine, 50 ppm-wt. to 6 wt.%) of oxides of Al, Ta and Nb, 3 wt.%> to 10 wt.%> Ti0 2 and the remainder Si0 2 .
• the DST glass contains 0.2 wt.%> to 3 wt.%> F, 50 ppm-wt.
• the DST glass contains 1 wt.% to 2 wt.% F, 50 ppm-wt. to 6 wt.%) of oxides of Al, Ta and Nb, 5 wt.%> to 8 wt.%> Ti0 2 and the remainder Si0 2 .
• the OH concentration in the DST glass is less than
• the OH concentration is less than 50 ppm. In a further embodiment the OH concentration is less than 30 ppm. In an additional embodiment the OH concentration is less than 20 ppm.
• the annealing cycle is controlled to yield the desired glass structure(s). It has been found that while annealing alone can provide a structural improvement leading to an expansivity slope reduction of up to 40% for a silica-titania glass that does not contain fluorine, the addition of dopants, in an amount in the range disclosed herein, provides for structural improvements that can lead to a CTE slope reduction in excess of 70%>.
• the DST glass of this disclosure has an expansivity slope at 20°C of less than 1 ppb/K 2 . In an embodiment the DST glass' expansivity slope at 20°C is less than 0.8 ppb/K 2 . In another embodiment the DST glass' expansivity slope at 20°C is less than 0.6 ppb/K 2 .
• the annealing cycle is controlled in such a manner that it would yield the desired homogeneity of the fictive temperature of the DST glass.
• This aspect is particularly important due to the presence of the dopants whose concentration distribution could be non-uniform.
• the halogens especially, affect the fictive temperature significantly and any non-uniformity in their distribution could cause large variations in properties and render the glass useless.
• the DST glass has a fictive temperature, T f , of less than 875°C. In an embodiment the DST glass has a fictive temperature of less than 825°C. In another embodiment the DST glass has a fictive temperature of less than 775°C.
• This DST glass disclosed herein is not process limited. That is, the DST glass can be made by different manufacturing processes, for example, sol-gel, soot blank, soot pressing, overhead vapor deposition, the direct process, the indirect process, plasma process and other processes known in the art.
• the DST glass has two crossover temperatures, Tzc (temperature at which the CTE of the glass is zero, also called herein a Tzc point) within the normal operational range for the glass when used in lithographic processes, including processes using the 13.5 nm wavelength radiation.
• Tzc temperature at which the CTE of the glass is zero
• Tzc point within the normal operational range for the glass when used in lithographic processes, including processes using the 13.5 nm wavelength radiation.
• the two Tzcs are in the range of 0°C to 150°C.
• the two T ZC 'S are in the range of 20°C to 100°C.
• the two Tzc values are in the range of 20°C to 80°C.
• the two Tzcs are in the range of 10°C to 60°C or even 10 to 40°C.
• the DST glass has a crossover temperature (Tzc) in the range of 0°C to 100°C in combination with an expansivity slope which substantially equals zero within this temperature range.
• Tzc crossover temperature
• the DST glass has a strain point of less than 900°C. In another embodiment the strain point is less than 850°C. In a further embodiment the strain point is less than 810°C.
• the DST glass has a viscosity that is significantly reduced over that of the ordinary binary silica-titania glass Si0 2 -Ti0 2 .
• the ordinary binary silica-titania glass has a Anneal Point of 1001 °C and Strain Point of 892°C, whereas the DST glass has Anneal Point and Strain Point of 885°C and 770°C.
• T f varies less than ⁇ 10°C within an entire part. In another embodiment the T f variation is less than ⁇ 5°C within an entire part. In a further embodiment the T f variation is less than ⁇ 2°C within an entire part. In one embodiment the Tzc variation is less than ⁇ 5°C within an entire part. In another embodiment the Tzc variation is less than ⁇ 3°C within an entire part. In an additional embodiment the Tzc variation is less than ⁇ 2°C within an entire part. The variation in these average values in the entire part satisfy the above limits. It should be noted that this requires both good control of composition as well as tight control of the annealing process. Both will be needed to be within the scope of this invention.
• the an article or part made of the DST glass has an MSFR (Mid Spatial Frequency Roughness) of less than 0.2nm. In another embodiment the MSFR is less than 0.15 nm. Ina further embodiment the MSFR is than 0.12nm rms.
• MSFR Mobile Spatial Frequency Roughness
• the peak CTE within the two crossover temperatures does not exceed 30 ppb/K and has a slope of zero ppb/K 2 within the two cross over temperatures. In another embodiment peak CTE within the two crossover temperatures do not exceed 20 ppb/K. In a further embodiment the peak CTE within two crossover temperatures is less than 15 ppb/K. In an additional embodiment the peak CTE within the two crossover temperatures is less than 10 ppb/K.
• the DST glass of this disclosure can be used to make photo mask blanks or as projection optics mirror substrates.
• the DST glass can also be used to make smaller blanks which can then be used to form the critical zone of a mirror blank of a projection optics system in a EUVL stepper.
• Halogen doping can be achieved during
• Figure 1 is a graph of CTE vs. T f illustrating the effect of F-dopant addition (in this example the halogen is fluorine, wt.%), represented by diamonds 10, on the CTE slope of a silica-titania glass. Silica-titania glass without the added dopant is represented by the square 20.
• Figure 2 is a graph of the Anneal and Strain Points (left vertical axis) and the Log of the Viscosity (right vertical axis) versus dopant addition (in this example the halogen is fluorine, wt.%) for silica-titania glasses containing 0 wt.% up to 1.6 wt.%) dopants.
• Figure 3 is a graph of expansivity versus temperature for (a) a silica-titania glass without dopants and (b) a doped silica-titania glass after a fast annealing cycle and a slow annealing cycle as described herein.
• Figure 4 is a graph of expansivity versus temperature illustrating the expansivity behavior between 20 °C and 100 °C for different doped Si0 2 -Ti0 2 glasses which differ only in Ti0 2 concentration in order to yield different values of Tzcl .
• Figure 5 is a graph of expansivity versus temperature for doped silica-titania glasses that differ only in titania content, each glass having been annealed to have the same Active temperature T f of 730°C.
• the base glass is a silica- titania glass.
• a dopant is added to the base glass to make a low expansion glass according to this disclosure the composition of the resulting glass is given as wt.% or ppm-wt. of the added dopant, wt.% Ti0 2 and the remainder being wt.% Si0 2 .
• the expansivity of a material over a given temperature range, ACTE is the difference between the maximum CTE, (CTE max ) and the minimum CTE (CTE m i n ) over the temperature range and can be determined using the equation:
• FIG. 6 is Curve 52 of Figure 5 with CTE max and CTE m i n indicated.
• CTE max is 3.8 ppb/K and CTEmin is -2 ppb/K.
• Silica-titania glass with reduced expansivity is an important requirement for the projection optics mirror blanks as well as photomask blanks for EUVL steppers.
• the DST glass described herein has a reduced CTE slope (the slope is a measurement of the instantaneous change in CTE (ppb/K) versus temperature (in K)) which will allow EUVL stepper makers to use higher source power because of the materials described herein offering improved thermal/dimensional stability.
• the DST glass described herein will also enable EUVL users to achieve much higher resolution.
• the DST glass described herein can be used in small quantities for the critical zone of projection optics mirror which will help lower the cost of large projection optics mirrors which can have a diameter in the range of 10 cm to 60 cm.
• the use of inserts in the critical zone of EUVL systems elements is disclosed in commonly owned U.S. Patent Application No. 13/563,882 and 13/564,215.
• Tzcl can be adjusted by manipulation of Ti0 2 concentration alone.
• Slow annealing can be used to lower the expansivity slope and bring Tzc2 lower.
• an extremely low expansivity of +/- 3 ppb/K over a range of tens of degrees Celsius (°C) can only be obtained at temperatures in the neighborhood of the expansivity maximum, and thus such desirable regime can only be obtained in the undoped- standard annealed glass at temperatures starting at ⁇ 150 °C.
• This disclosure describes a doped titania-silica glass containing up to 5 wt.% halogens and 50 ppm-wt. to 6 wt.% one or more oxides of Al, Ta and Nb.
• the halogen doping was done during the consolidation step of the glass process. Halogen doping during the consolidation enables the making of an initial oxide doped soot blank by different methods, for example:
• a sol-gel process in which silica-titania soot is made and formed into a shape using the sol-gel process and dried to form porous silica-titania articles that are then treated with a halogen containing gas during consolidation.
• additional oxide dopants precursors are added to the sol-gel before it is formed into a shape, dried and treated with halogen during consolidation. Consolidation may be carried out in air or an air-inert gas mixture.
• the soot used in the sol-gel process is one in which the additional oxide precursors were added during the formation of the silica-titania soot as described above in Item (2).
• the fluorine containing gas can be F 2 , CF 4 , SF 4 , SiF 4 or other volatile fluorine compounds mixed with a carrier gas, for example air.
• a carrier gas for example air.
• compounds such as CF 4 and SF 4 are used as the fluorinating agent oxygen is present in the carrier gas in order to convert the non- fluorine portion of the fluorinating agent ( C, Si or S) to a volatile species, for example C0 2 , SiO or S0 2 , which is swept out of the system by the carrier gas.
• the carrier gas can also be an inert gas, for example nitrogen, helium or argon, However, when these are used as the carrier gas for CF 4 , SiF 4 and SF 4 oxygen should be present as indicated above.
• Halogens in addition to doping the glass, can dehydrate the glass. That is, the halogen will reduce the number of hydroxyl groups, OH, that may be present in the glass. Dehydration can also be done using a mixture of chlorine and fluorine, or sequentially by first dehydrating using chlorine and then using a fluorine containing species such as those described above to fluorine dope the glass.
• the consolidation temperature will depend on the method of soot blank preparation and can vary from 1300°C for a OVD process to 1670°C for other processes such as soot pressing and sol-gel.
• the DST glass was annealed by heating to a temperature in the range of 1000°C to 1100°C for a time in the range of 0.5 hour to 2 hours. In one embodiment the annealing temperature was 1050°C and the holding time at the annealing temperature was 1 hour.
• the glass was cooled from the annealing temperature, for example 1050°C, to 700°C at the rate of 3°C per hour, and then cooled from 700°C to room temperature naturally; natural cooling being to turn off the heat source and allowing the glass to cool to room temperature at the cooling rate of the furnace.
• Example 1 the target halogen content of the glass is 1.5 wt.% F and Example 2, 0.8 wt.% F. Annealing cycles and there effect of Active temperature have been described and discussed U.S. Patent Application Publication Nos. 2011/0048075, 2011/0207593 and 2011/0207592/
• Titania doped silica soot particles were made by flame hydrolysis using TiCl 4 and SiCLt, and the soot was deposited on a bait rod in a lathe using the OVD process for more than 10 hours. The resulting soot blank was then consolidated in a muffle furnace as follows:
• the resulting blank was bluish gray in color due to the presence of Ti0 2 crystallites.
• Discs of 15 mm diameter were cut from the consolidated blank and were heated to a temperature of 1670°C for 1 hour to dissolve the crystallites and obtain a clear glass. These discs were then annealed by heating them to 1050°C for 1 hour followed by cooling to 700°C at a rate of either (a) 3°C/h or (b) 30°C/h to achieve two different Active temperatures.
• the Active temperature of samples (a) and (b) were 772°C and 785°C, respectively.
• the samples with a T f of 772°C has a CTE slope of less than 0.7 ppb/K 2 and the samples with a T f of 785°C had an average CTE slope of less than 0.8 ppb/K 2 at 20°C.
• Code 7973 glass has a CTE slope of 1.60ppb/K 2 .
• Titania doped silica soot particles were made by flame hydrolysis of TiCl 4 and SiCl 4 and the soot was deposited on a bait rod in a lathe using the OVD process for about 16.5 hours.
• the soot blank thus made was 5992 g in mass with a density of 0.42 g/cc and a diameter of 135.7 mm.
• the soot blank was then consolidated in a muffle furnace as follows:
• the resulting blank was bluish gray in color due to the presence of Ti0 2 crystallites.
• Discs 15 mm in diameter were cut from the consolidated blank and were heated to 1670°C for 1 hour to dissolve the crystallites and obtain a clear glass. These discs were then annealed by heating them to 1050°C for 1 hour followed by cooling to 700°C at either (a) 3°C/hour (slow anneal cycle) or (b) 30°C/hour (fast anneal cycle) rate to achieve two different Active temperatures which were 870°C and 918°C, respectively. These samples were then polished and assembled in to sandwich seals with a regular ULE® glass (7973) as the central piece between two experimental samples of the same composition and T f .
• the sandwich seal samples are approximately of the size 1.5" X 1" X 1/8" (38mm x 25.4 mm x 3.2mm). Stress on the center piece (the meat of the sandwich) exerted by the two experimental pieces (the bread pieces of the sandwich) was measured as the sandwich is heated from -100°C to +125°C from which the difference in the CTE slope between the experimental material and the Code 7973 ULE glass, whose CTE slope is known, is extracted.
• the samples with a T f of 870°C has a CTE slope of less than 1.2 ppb/K 2 at 20°C and the samples with a T f of 918°C had an average CTE slope of less than 1.5 ppb/K 2 at 20°C.
• Figure 1 illustrates the effect of fluorine addition to a silica-titania glass on the CTE slope of the resulting DST glass as compared to the CTE slope of a binary silica-titania glass without added fluorine.
• the DST glass is represented by
• diamonds 10 and the binary silica-titania glass without fluorine is represented by square 20.
• the fluorine addition decreases the viscosity of the glass and thereby decreases the Active temperature of the glass.
• Fictive temperature reduction is the prime driver for CTE slope reduction in silica-titania glass. However, while it has been found that fluorine addition does reduce the CTE slope, that reduction is greater than that which would be expected from the fictive temperature reduction alone.
• Figure 2 is a graph illustrating the effect of fluorine addition on the Anneal and Strain Points (left vertical axis) and the Viscosity (right vertical axis) of silica-titania glasses containing from 0 wt.% F up to 1.6 wt.% F.
• the graph shows the anneal and strains points decreasing at substantially the same rate as the fluorine content increases, and that the viscosity of the glass is also reduced with increasing fluorine content..
• Figure 3 is a graph of expansivity versus temperature for (1) silica-titania glass without fluorine and (2) a fluorine doped silica-titania glass after a fast annealing cycle and a slow annealing cycle as described herein. All the glasses in Figure 3 have the same first crossover temperature Tzcl of 20°C which is accomplished by adjusting the wt.,% Ti0 2 in the glass. The F content in the DST glasses is 1.5 wt.% as indicated in Table 1. The Figure 3 shows the behavior of each glass after undergoing two different annealing cycles a fast annealing cycle in which the cooling rate is 30°C/hour and a slow annealing cycle in which the cooling rate is 3°C/hour. Ti0 2 and F values are in wt.%
• ACTE is in ppb/K over the temperature range 0°C to 150°C
• the numeral 30 curve which represents ULE glass after the fast anneal, has a maximum expansivity (black dot ⁇ ) of ⁇ 70 ppb/K, a first crossover temperature Tzcl at 20°C and a second zero crossover temperature Tzc2 at T > 300 °C.
• the numeral 32 curve which represents a ULE glass after the slow anneal, has a maximum expansivity (black dot ⁇ ) of -50 ppb/K, a first crossover temperature Tzcl of 20°C and second crossover temperature Tzc2 of approximately 230 °C.
• the second crossover temperature Tzc2 for the glasses of curves 30 and 32 is off the scale to the right in Figure 3.
• the numeral 34 curve which represents the DST glass after annealing at 30°C/hour, has maximum expansivity (black dot ⁇ ) of approximately 12 ppb/K and a first crossover temperature Tzcl of 20°C and a second crossover temperature Tzc2 of approximately 100°C.
• the numeral 36 curve which represents the DST glass after the slow anneal, has a maximum expansivity (black dot ⁇ ) of approximately 6 ppb/K, a first crossover temperature Tzcl of 20°C and second crossover temperature of approximately 65°C.
• Figure 4 is a graph of expansivity versus temperature illustrating the expansivity behavior between 20 °C and 100 °C of four different doped Si0 2 -Ti0 2 glasses which differ only in Ti0 2 concentration in order to yield different values of Tzcl .
• the titania value for each curve is given in Table 2 A.
• the halogen content in each sample is 1.5 wt.% and all four samples have been annealed to the same T f of approximately 780°C using the fast anneal cycle.
• Table 2B gives the ACTE value for all for curves over two temperature ranges.
• the glass 44 with Tzcl of 30 °C has a ACTE of 11 and provides a Tzc2 of - 87°C.
• Figure 5 is a graph of expansivity versus temperature in the range of 20°C to 60°C for four different doped silica-titania glass that differ only in titania content.
• the halogen content of each glass is 1.5 wt.% and each glass has been annealed using the slow anneal cycle to have the same Active temperature T f of 730°C.
• Tzc2 within the temperature range of interest, that is a Tzc2 of less than or substantially equal to 60°C.
• optimum properties would be obtained with a glass having a Ti0 2 concentration such as to bring Tzcl to ⁇ 26 °C and Tzc2 to ⁇ 58 °C. Based on the data that has been obtained, the Ti0 2 concentration would be 8.9 to 9.0 wt.%.
• Table 3B gives the ACTE value for all for curves over two temperature ranges.
• the glass made according to the present disclosure can be used to make photo mask blanks or as projection optics mirror substrates; and it can also be used to make smaller blanks which can then be used to form the critical zone of a mirror blank of a projection optics system in a EUVL stepper.
• Halogen doping can be achieved during consolidation of a regular titania-silica OVD blank.
• doped silica-titania glass and glass shapes can be made using either soot-pressing or sol-gel methods in which halogen doping us carried out during a drying, heating or consolidation step.

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