Patent ID: 8389407

Claim:
A method of patterning a material, comprising: forming a plurality of spaced-apart structures over the material, individual structures of said plurality having shapes containing a first linear segment laterally offset from a second linear segment, and containing a jog connecting the first and second linear segments to one another; forming rings around the structures over the material; the rings having interior regions with the shapes of the individual structures, and thus having first and second linear segments laterally offset from one another, and connected to one another through a jog; forming a patterned mask over the rings; the patterned mask having first and second trenches extending through patterned masking material; the patterned mask and the rings together defining a plurality of openings over the material; the openings being arranged in two rows, with one row comprising openings defined within the first trench, and with the other row comprising openings defined within the second trench; and extending said openings into the material to form openings in the material.