EBL_Electron Beam Lithography Equipment_2 LOTS

EBL Instrument (Lot1) and Lithography Data Prep System (Lot2)

LOT1: The electron beam lithography (EBL) instrument requires both high performance and high reliability. Examples of key research goals include:

These applications are scientifically challenging and we require an instrument that writes high fidelity patterns with flexible exposure parameters and excellent resolution and overlay capabilities.

Tender Lot# 2: Lithography data preparation system

Ensuring the maximum throughput of world-leading scientific devices from the lithography tool is very important to us. Therefore it is important that the exposure control of the patterns is calculated correctly. In an ideal world we would hope that the patterns would be exposed correctly first time. This usually means that the resist and substrate need to be modelled in a computer to calculate the proximity correction. This correction might be to the shape of the pattern and/or the exposure of the pattern. As an example consider a ‘bow-tie’ pattern written into a positive electron beam resist on a GaAs substrate consisting of two equilateral triangles of side length 200nm which are separated at one of their vertices by 20nm. To provide an accurate spacing of 20nm and maximum contrast in the resist, the exposure parameters have to be optimised.

We are therefore inviting tenders for software tools which will help us maximise the throughput and fidelity of the patterns.

We welcome tenders from both electron beam lithography tool suppliers and third parties.

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