Method for repairing reflective optical elements for EUV lithography

    公开(公告)号:US11099484B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-24

    申请号:US16433572

    申请日:2019-06-06

    IPC分类号: G03F7/20 G21K1/06

    摘要: A cost-effective method for repairing reflective optical elements for EUV lithography. These optical elements (60) have a substrate (61) and a coating (62) that reflects at a working wavelength in the range between 5 nm and 20 nm and is damaged as a result of formation of hydrogen bubbles. The method includes: localizing a damaged area (63, 64, 65, 66) in the coating (62) and covering the damaged area (63, 64, 65, 66) with one or more materials having low hydrogen permeability by applying a cover element to the damaged area. The cover element is formed of a surface structure, a convex or concave surface, or a coating corresponding to the coating of the reflective optical element, or a combination thereof. The method is particularly suitable for collector mirrors (70) for EUV lithography. After the repair, the optical elements have cover elements (71, 72, 73).

    Optical assembly having a thermally conductive component

    公开(公告)号:US11194119B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-07

    申请号:US16701480

    申请日:2019-12-03

    IPC分类号: G02B7/02 G03F7/20 G02B7/18

    摘要: An optical assembly includes: an optical element, which is transmissive or reflective to radiation at a used wavelength and has an optically used region; and a thermally conductive component, which is arranged outside the optically used region of the optical element. The thermally conductive component can include a material having a thermal conductivity of more than 500 W m−1 K−1. Additionally or alternatively, the product of the thickness of the thermally conductive component in millimeters and the thermal conductivity of the material of the thermally conductive component is at least 1 W mm m−1 K−1.

    Optical assembly having a thermally conductive component

    公开(公告)号:US10509336B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-17

    申请号:US15604837

    申请日:2017-05-25

    IPC分类号: G03F7/20 G02B7/02 G02B7/18

    摘要: An optical assembly includes: an optical element, which is transmissive or reflective to radiation at a used wavelength and has an optically used region; and a thermally conductive component, which is arranged outside the optically used region of the optical element. The thermally conductive component can include a material having a thermal conductivity of more than 500 W m−1 K−1. Additionally or alternatively, the product of the thickness of the thermally conductive component in millimeters and the thermal conductivity of the material of the thermally conductive component is at least 1 W mm m−1 K−1.

    EUV mirror and optical system comprising EUV mirror

    公开(公告)号:US10203435B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-12

    申请号:US15215123

    申请日:2016-07-20

    IPC分类号: G02B5/08 G21K1/06

    摘要: An EUV mirror has a multilayer arrangement applied on a substrate. The multilayer arrangement includes a first layer group having ten or more first layer pairs. Each first layer pair has a first layer composed of a high refractive index first layer material having a first layer thickness, has a second layer composed of a low refractive index second layer material having a second layer thickness and has a period thickness corresponding to the sum of the layer thicknesses of all the layers of a first layer pair. The layer thicknesses of one of the layer materials are defined, depending on the period number, by a simply monotonic first layer thickness profile function, e.g. by a linear, quadratic or exponential layer thickness profile function. The layer thicknesses of the other of the layer materials vary, depending on the period number, in accordance with a second layer thickness profile function.