Bimetallic thermal activated films for microfabrication, photomasks, and data storage
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Bimetallic thermal resist Bi/In has shown many applications in the areas of microfabrication, photomasks and data storage. Optical modeling shows that this class of thermal resist is wavelength invariant, and Bi/In can perform even better at 13.4 nm than at 248 nm due to the increase of absorption and the reduction of reflection. Images were successfully made on Bi/In films with both proximity and projection exposures with Nd:YAG laser running at 2nd harmonic wavelength. A new kind of developing solution used at room temperature was found to be more effective in descumming than nitric acetic acid solution. Both have the etching selectively of unexposed area to exposed areas > 60:1. Developed Bi/In resists shows good conductivity, which can be used as both a metal plating masking and seeding layer, 2 to 10 micrometers wide CU and Ni lines and squares were successfully plated on the developed Bi/In patterns on glass slides and silicon wafers. Shelf test shows that the properties of Bi/In film do not change after being kept in a humid temperature-lifted environment for 10 days. Large optical transmission changes indicate Bi/In can be used for direct-write photomasks and data storage media. Heat- treatment enhances the OD exposed/unexposed OD change.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
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".