Patent ID: 8323451

Claim:
A system for carrying out a self-aligned dual patterning process, comprising: a platform for supporting a plurality of process chambers; an etch process chamber coupled to said platform; an ultra-violet radiation photo-resist curing process chamber coupled to said platform; a deposition process chamber coupled to said platform; and a computing device coupled to said platform, to said etch process chamber, to said deposition process chamber, and to said ultra-violet radiation photo-resist curing process chamber, wherein said computing device has a memory with a set of instructions stored thereon, and wherein said set of instructions is executable to carry out a method comprising: trimming, in said etch process chamber, a patterned photo-resist layer above a wafer to provide the wafer comprising a photo-resist template mask on a layered structure; curing, in said ultra-violet radiation photo-resist curing process chamber, said photo-resist template mask to form a hardened photo-resist template mask; depositing, in said deposition process chamber, a spacer-forming material layer over said hardened photo-resist template mask; etching, in said etch process chamber or in a second etch process chamber coupled to said platform, said spacer-forming material layer to form a spacer mask and to expose said hardened photo-resist template mask; removing said hardened photo-resist template mask; and transferring an image of said spacer mask to said layered structure.