Nanofabrication toward sub-10 nm and its application to novel nanodevices

Abstract

The device feature size in Si ULSIs has been reduced over the years, and sooner or later we will probably enter the so-called nanoelectronics era. Two nanofabrication technologies, electron-beam lithography and atomic-beam holography, which are expected to play an important role in the coming era, are discussed first. In order to get finer patterns with electron-beam lithography, improvements in the characteristics of organic resists are crucially important. Organic negative resists with a fine resolution have been developed, and a high-quality resist line pattern with a width as small as 7 nm has been successfully formed. A new atom manipulation technique called atomic-beam holography has been proposed for nanofabrication. It enables direct pattern formation on a substrate by passing laser-cooled atoms through a computer-generated hologram. It is expected to be a technique with a fine resolution, reaching the atomic scale, and a high throughput.