IP Library Granted Patent US 7,005,246
Granted Patent B2
US 7,005,246 · App. 10/096,844 · Granted Feb 28, 2006

Manufacturing method of microstructure, manufacturing method and manufacturing device of electronic device

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Patent No.
US 7,005,246
App. No.
10/096,844
Granted
Feb 28, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

Minute structures are obtained by exposing a process target material and changing the shape thereof by relatively shifting a laser beam or electron beam against the process target material and simultaneously repeating irradiation in an intermittent manner. A plurality of minute convex or concave shapes are formed on the process target material by employing a branching element for branching a single beam into a plurality of beams; a parallel element for converting said plurality of beams into beams which respectively advance in parallel; and a condensing element for condensing the plurality of beams to the process target material and generating a plurality of minute spots thereon.

Claims (18)

1. A manufacturing method of a microstructure, comprising:

a spot set forming step for obtaining a spot set formed of a plurality of minute spots from a laser beam or an electron beam, said laser beam or said electron beam generated by a phase-type diffraction grating branching device including a plurality of types of phase shift areas having different phase shift quantities against said laser beam or said electron beam; and

an exposure step for forming an irradiation trace by irradiating said spot set a plurality of times while changing the irradiation position of said spot set against a process target material,

said exposure step performing multilayer exposure by overlapping a part of a plurality of irradiation traces pursuant to a single spot set and a part of a plurality of irradiation traces pursuant to another spot set.

2. A manufacturing method of a microstructure according to claim 1 , said spot set forming step including:

a branching step for branching a single beam into a plurality of beams; and

a condensing step for condensing said plurality of beams to said process target material.

3. A manufacturing method of a microstructure according to claim 1 , said spot set forming step including:

a branching step for branching a single beam into a plurality of beams;

a parallel step for making said plurality of beams mutually advance in parallel; and

a condensing step for condensing said plurality of beams to said process target material.

4. A manufacturing method of a microstructure according to claim 1 , said single spot set and said another spot set being spot sets adjacent in the shifting distance of said irradiation position.

5. A manufacturing method of a microstructure according to claim 1 , said single spot set and said another spot set being spot sets adjacent in the perpendicular direction against the shifting distance of said irradiation position.

6. A manufacturing method of a microstructure according to claim 1 , a spiral-shaped irradiation trace pursuant to a plurality of minute spots being formed by relatively shifting said spot set radially while rotating said process target material.

7. A manufacturing method of a micro structure according to claim 1 , said plurality of minute spots being formed by employing a phase-type diffraction grating having at least one of a striped pattern, quadrangular, equilateral triangular or hexagonal phase shift area.

8. A manufacturing method of a microstructure according to claim 1 , said process target material being a photosensitive material, and said irradiation trace being a latent image formed on said photosensitive material.

9. A manufacturing method of a microstructure according to claim 1 , said irradiation trace being a laser ablation.

10. The method of claim 1 , the beam being light beams, and the diffraction grating producing interference of the beams.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 15, 2018
From: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
To: 138 EAST LCD ADVANCEMENTS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 046153/0397 →