Patent 11294274 was granted and assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on April, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for a semiconductor lithography process in accordance with some embodiments. The apparatus includes a pellicle membrane, a porous pellicle frame, a mask with a patterned surface, a first thermal conductive adhesive layer that secures the pellicle membrane to the porous pellicle frame, and a second thermal conductive adhesive layer that secures the porous pellicle frame to the mask.