Bimetallic grayscale photomasks written using optical density feedback control
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Abstract
When bimetallic thin films of Bi/In and Sn/In are laser exposed, they oxidize and become variably transparent. By controlling the writing laser power, binary and grayscale photomasks can be produced with the mask's transparency (optical density, OD), ranging between ~3.0 (unexposed) to <0.22 OD (fully exposed). Targeting the production of grayscale masks with 256 levels, the mask-writing system when combined with photodiode sensors obtains real-time OD and laser power measurements and uses them to adjust the laser's writing power during the patterning process. For a single-line stepped pattern, laser writing without OD feedback control demonstrates an average absolute error of 4.2 gray levels, while with OD feedback control and the appropriate parameters, the same pattern is produced with an average absolute error of 0.3 gray levels. The control parameters are shown to influence the characteristics of the resulting mask pattern, particularly the overshoot and rise-time of the pixel transitions. With multi-line mask patterns being rasterscanned written, the overlap of the lines combined with the laser's Gaussian profile creates variations in the mask, and measurement problems for the OD feedback control. An interlaced raster-scan approach is proposed where a first pass patterns non-overlapping lines using an ideal set of control parameters. A second and third pass then patterns the lines inbetween and at the pixel boundaries using another set parameters designed to account for the overlap. The technique allows feedback to be used for the entire mask writing process.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".