Patent ID: 9576817
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: B81C,C08L,G03F,H01L

Claim:
1. A method of directed self-assembly of a block copolymer material comprising: forming spacers on sidewalls of a plurality of mandrels located on a hard mask layer; removing the plurality of mandrels, leaving the spacers protruding from a top surface of the hard mask layer; forming a neutral material layer on exposed portions of the hard mask layer that are not covered by the spacers, wherein the neutral material layer only surrounds a bottom portion of each of the spacers and directly contacts opposite sidewalls of each of the spacers; depositing the block copolymer material onto the neutral material layer and between the spacers; annealing the block copolymer material to form alternating first domains including a first polymer block of the block copolymer material and second domains including a second polymer block of the block copolymer material; and selectively removing the first domains or the second domains, wherein the neutral material layer remains contacting the opposite sidewalls of each of the spacers after the selectively removing the first domains or the second domains.