Past Event Overview

Thank you for attending SPIE Photomask Technology 2016, the premier worldwide technical meeting for mask making, emerging mask technologies, and mask business.

Download the 2016 materials
Final Program (2 MB PDF)
Technical Abstracts (3 MB PDF)
Exhibition Guide (2 MB PDF)
2016 Topics
Mask Making:
Mask data preparation • Substrates, materials, pellicles • Patterning tools and processes • Resist and resist processing • Etch techniques • Metrology • Inspection • Repair • Cleaning, contamination, and haze • Simulation of mask making
Anamorphic Masks for High-NA EUV:
Lithograph, OPC, and SMO models • Magnification interactions • Impact of half-field reticles • Stitching for mask making/design
Emerging & Alternate Mask Technologies:
EUV mask making • EUV mask inspection and repair • EUV mask infrastructure • EUV mask application • Nanoimprint mask making • Nanoimprint mask application • Pixelated masks • Alternative mask technologies • Grey-scale masks • Direct-write, ML²
EUV pellicles:
Nanoimprint mask making • Nanoimprint mask applications • Pixelated masks • Alternative mask technologies • Grey-scale masks • Direct-write, ML² • Masks for flat panel displays • Masks for MEMs
Mask Business:
Mask manufacturing control • Reticle management in the fab and mask shop • Mask management in wafer fabs • Business aspects of masks • Infrastructure challenges
2016 Keynote Presentation

Making Lithography Great

Christopher Progler
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Strategic Planning
Photronics, Inc. 

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Final Technical Program (5 MB PDF)
2015 Exhibition Guide (3 MB PDF)
Technical Abstracts (1 MB PDF)

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