US 7,524,593 B2
Exposure mask
Hideto Ohnuma, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa-ken (Japan)
Filed on Aug. 07, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/462,824.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-234906 (JP), filed on Aug. 12, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0037069 A1, Feb. 15, 2007
Int. Cl. G03F 1/00 (2006.01); G03C 5/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 430—5  [430/311] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An exposure mask wherein a phase difference Δθ of i-line (365 nm) which transmits through a transparent region and a semi-transparent region and a transmittance n of the semi-transparent region with respect to the exposure light satisfy Formula 1
Δθ≤arccos(−√n/2).  [Formula 1]