A novel all-inverter CMOS based dose control circuit for using vertically aligned carbon NanoFibers in maskless lithography

S. K. Islam, C. Durisety, R. Vijayaraghavan, H. Nguyen, B. Blalock, L. R. Baylor, W. L. Gardner

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Abstract

This paper presents a prototype implementation of a circuit that can control charge emission from the Vertically Aligned Carbon NanoFibers (VACNF), for use in the implementation of Digital Electrostatic e-beam Array Lithography (DEAL). This lithography technique can be used to fabricate ultra-small feature size devices, while cutting down the manufacturing costs of photo-masks[1]. These VACNF's are found to be quite robust for use as micro-fabricated field emission devices [2]. The all inverter based dose control circuit (DCC) presented in this paper was fabricated using a standard 0.5μm CMOS process to improve the dose-rate accuracy, when using these VACNF's for etching in maskless lithography. Simulation and measurement results are compared and analyzed, and future work for improving the design is discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTechnical Digest of the 18th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, IVNC 2005
Pages348-349
Number of pages2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
EventTechnical Digest of the 18th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, IVNC 2005 - Oxford, United Kingdom
Duration: Jul 10 2005Jul 14 2005

Publication series

NameTechnical Digest of the 18th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, IVNC 2005
Volume2005

Conference

ConferenceTechnical Digest of the 18th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, IVNC 2005
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityOxford
Period07/10/0507/14/05

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