Hi Tao,
A period of 1.5um should be fairly easy to achieve with that laser, even
with the crossed exposure (are you after a 2-D array of holes or
pillars?). Many things could cause your problem, but my best two guesses
are:
1) Reduce your intensity by spreading out your beam. If your features
are gone after 3s develop, you are way over-exposed for a positive resist
like 1805. Since your time is already short, you have to reduce
intensity.
2) There is probably non-uniformity in your optical field. Issues like
spatial filtering, uniform power in both beams, minimizing stray laser
scatter (coherent), and having a minimum number of optical elements in the
beam path can help here.
Good Luck!!
---Chris Striemer [email protected]
>Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 15:10:03 -0700
>From: tao liu
>Reply-To: General MEMS discussion
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [mems-talk] About laser holography
>
>Hi,
>
>I use HeCd laser to do holography with two-beam interference. The
>wavelength is 446nm. My sample is PR1805/SiO2/GaAs. The period is
>1.5um. The sample is exposed twice to form a crossed grating. After
>exposure and development, I can always see the non-uniformity on the
>sample surface: some area has good exposure, some area has
>under-exposure, and some area has over-exposure. Because the time for
>a single exposure is only ~ 3s and the development is also only ~ 3s,
>I suspect that this is caused by the very short development time. (I
>cannot use long development time for my present conditions. Otherwise
>all the patterns will be lost.) Can anybody give me some hints for
>that? Thanks.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Tao