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    • Optical Lithography
    • Materials Science

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    • Advanced lithography techniques are crucial for creating nanoscale features.
    • Existing methods face challenges with scalability, feature size, and surface roughness.

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    • To present a novel single-exposure deep-ultraviolet (DUV) projection lithography system.
    • To achieve nanopatterning with feature sizes as small as 80 nm.
    • To demonstrate a scalable method with enhanced patterning accuracy.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilizing a macroscopic lens to project a pixelated mask onto a monolayer of hexagonally arranged microspheres.
    • Employing microspheres to generate photonic nanojets for sub-diffraction limit focusing.
    • Implementing ray-optics and wave-optics simulations for system design and analysis.

    Main Results:

    • Successful fabrication of nanopatterns with 80 nm feature size in a scalable area.
    • Demonstrated enhanced exposure power and patterning accuracy using microsphere-based photonic nanojets.
    • Characterized lithography performance, including proximity effect, lens aberration, and interference effects.

    Conclusions:

    • The presented DUV projection lithography system offers a promising approach for high-accuracy, large-area nanopatterning.
    • Microsphere-based focusing effectively mitigates issues related to surface roughness.
    • The method provides a scalable and efficient route for fabricating nanoscale features.