Electron-beam lithography system and method for drawing nanometer-order pattern

摘要

An electron-beam lithography system employing an "electron holography" technique is disclosed. The system at least comprises: a shaping aperture for shaping an electron beam emitted from an electron-beam source so as to have a specific beam shape; at least two single crystal thin films for diffracting the electron beam passed through this shaping aperture; focusing means for respectively focusing the incident electron beam passed through these single crystal thin films and the diffracted electron beams diffracted by these single crystal thin films; and a select aperture for selecting only the desired diffracted electron beams. The transmitted incident electron beam interferes with the diffracted electron beams, whereby a stripe pattern having a desired nanometer-order pitch is formed on a resist surface coated onto a semiconductor substrate or a mask blank.