An analogue delay-locked loop has been developed for spatial-phase locking in a scanning electron-beam lithography system. The loop improves pattern-placement precision to 3σ ≃ 12 nm, by referencing all writing to a 400 nm-period grating. Results compare well with a numerical simulation.
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Goodberlet et al. (1997) studied this question.