Patent ID: 7868308
Filing Date: 2011-01-11
Classification: B82Y,G11B,H01J

Abstract:
1. An electron beam writing method for writing a fine pattern, to be formed on a discrete track medium, on a substrate applied with a resist and placed on a rotation stage by scanning an electron beam on the substrate while rotating the rotation stage, the fine pattern including servo patterns, each constituted by servo elements having a track direction length greater than an irradiation diameter of the electron beam, and groove patterns, each extending in the track direction to separate adjacent data tracks in a groove-like manner, wherein, while rotating the substrate in one direction, portions of the servo patterns and groove patterns corresponding to a plurality of tracks are written during one rotation of the substrate, wherein: the portion of each servo pattern corresponding to the plurality of tracks is written by rapidly vibrating the electron beam back and forth in a radius direction of the rotation stage with an amplitude corresponding to one track width and at the same time deflecting and moving the electron beam in a direction opposite to a rotational direction of the rotation stage faster than a rotation speed of the rotation stage to scan the electron beam so as to completely fill the shape of one of servo elements in the portion as one unit of writing, and sequentially moving the writing start position of the electron beam to each of the other servo elements and sequentially repeating the one unit of writing; and groove patterns corresponding to the plurality of tracks following the writing of the portion of each servo pattern during the same rotation of the substrate are written by setting each of the groove patterns as a line-up of a plurality of groove elements divided at a predetermined angle, writing a first groove element for a first track by deflection scanning the electron beam in the direction opposite to the rotational direction of the rotation stage as the substrate is rotated, deflecting the electron beam in the same direction as the rotational direction and the radius direction to a next track, writing a first groove element of the next track by deflection scanning the electron beam in the direction opposite to the rotational direction, sequentially writing first groove elements for the other of the plurality of tracks, deflecting the electron beam to the direction opposite to the radius direction to return the electron beam to the first track, writing a next groove element for the first track in the same manner as above, and sequentially writing next groove elements for the other of the plurality of tracks in the same manner as above.