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Electron Beam Lithography Throughput And Resolution Enhancement With Innovative Blanker Design, Junru Ruan Jan 2010

Electron Beam Lithography Throughput And Resolution Enhancement With Innovative Blanker Design, Junru Ruan

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Electron Beam Lithography (EBL) is one of the most important and most widely used methods for nano-fabrication. The primary advantage of electron beam lithography is its high resolution, and its ability to expose nanometer features without a mask. On the other hand, one of the key limitations of electron beam lithography is throughput. Slow blanking speed is one of the major bottlenecks for the system speed. In this dissertation, I will first review the prior literature of high speed blanking. Thorough theoretical and experimental studies are done on the existing designs. Physical models are built and analytical ray tracing is …