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公开(公告)号:US20230040812A1
公开(公告)日:2023-02-09
申请号:US17971103
申请日:2022-10-21
申请人: Cymer, LLC
摘要: A method includes driving, while producing a burst of pulses at a pulse repetition rate, a spectral feature adjuster among a set of discrete states at a frequency correlated with the pulse repetition rate; and in between the production of the bursts of pulses (while no pulses are being produced), driving the spectral feature adjuster according to a driving signal defined by a set of parameters. Each discrete state corresponds to a discrete value of a spectral feature. The method includes ensuring that the spectral feature adjuster is in one of the discrete states that corresponds to a discrete value of the spectral feature of the amplified light beam when a pulse in the next burst is produced by adjusting one or more of: an instruction to the lithography exposure apparatus, the driving signal to the spectral feature adjuster, and/or the instruction to the optical source.
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公开(公告)号:US10852227B2
公开(公告)日:2020-12-01
申请号:US16266501
申请日:2019-02-04
申请人: Cymer, LLC
摘要: Disclosed is an apparatus for and method of measuring the concentration of F2 in the laser gas used in an excimer laser. Quartz Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy is used to obtain a direct measurement of F2 concentration quickly and using only a small sample volume.
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公开(公告)号:US11526083B2
公开(公告)日:2022-12-13
申请号:US16980467
申请日:2019-03-01
申请人: Cymer, LLC
摘要: A method includes driving, while producing a burst of pulses at a pulse repetition rate, a spectral feature adjuster among a set of discrete states at a frequency correlated with the pulse repetition rate; and in between the production of the bursts of pulses (while no pulses are being produced), driving the spectral feature adjuster according to a driving signal defined by a set of parameters. Each discrete state corresponds to a discrete value of a spectral feature. The method includes ensuring that the spectral feature adjuster is in one of the discrete states that corresponds to a discrete value of the spectral feature of the amplified light beam when a pulse in the next burst is produced by adjusting one or more of: an instruction to the lithography exposure apparatus, the driving signal to the spectral feature adjuster, and/or the instruction to the optical source.
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公开(公告)号:US20220255288A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-11
申请号:US17612035
申请日:2020-05-15
申请人: Cymer, LLC
发明人: Walter Dale Gillespie , Joshua Jon Thornes , Thomas Patrick Duffey , Eric Anders Mason , Rabin Paudel
摘要: Apparatus for and method of generating multiple laser beams using multiple laser chambers. The relative timing of the beams is controllable so they may, for example, be interleaved, may overlap, or be prevented from overlapping, or may occur in rapid sequence. The beams may have different spectral and power characteristics such as different wavelengths. Also disclosed is a system in which at least one of the multiple laser chambers is configured to generate radiation of two different wavelengths.
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公开(公告)号:US20180066995A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-08
申请号:US15256196
申请日:2016-09-02
申请人: Cymer, LLC
CPC分类号: G01J9/00 , G01J1/4257 , G01J2009/006 , G02B5/005 , G02B26/0825 , G02B27/0988 , G03F7/70058 , G03F7/70583
摘要: Techniques for controlling an optical system include accessing a measured value of a property of a particular pulse of a pulsed light beam emitted from the optical system, the property being related to an amount of coherence of the light beam; comparing the measured value of the property of the light beam to a target value of the property; determining whether to generate a control signal based on the comparison; and if a control signal is generated based on the comparison, adjusting the amount of coherence in the light beam by modifying an aspect of the optical system based on the control signal to reduce an amount of coherence of a pulse that is subsequent to the particular pulse.
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公开(公告)号:US11686951B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-27
申请号:US17240050
申请日:2021-04-26
申请人: Cymer, LLC , ASML Netherlands B.V.
发明人: Wilhelmus Patrick Elisabeth Maria op 't Root , Thomas Patrick Duffey , Herman Philip Godfried , Frank Everts , Joshua Jon Thornes , Brian Edward King
IPC分类号: G02B27/48 , G01J3/26 , G01J9/02 , G01J3/02 , G03F7/00 , H01S3/225 , H01S3/00 , G01J11/00 , G02F1/01 , H01S4/00 , G02B19/00
CPC分类号: G02B27/48 , G01J3/027 , G01J3/26 , G01J9/02 , G01J11/00 , G02F1/0121 , G03F7/70008 , G03F7/70041 , G03F7/7055 , H01S3/0085 , H01S3/225 , H01S4/00 , G01J2009/0211 , G02B19/0095 , G02F2203/18 , G03F7/70025 , G03F7/70583 , H01S3/0057
摘要: A method includes: producing a light beam made up of pulses having a wavelength in the deep ultraviolet range, each pulse having a first temporal coherence defined by a first temporal coherence length and each pulse being defined by a pulse duration; for one or more pulses, modulating the optical phase over the pulse duration of the pulse to produce a modified pulse having a second temporal coherence defined by a second temporal coherence length that is less than the first temporal coherence length of the pulse; forming a light beam of pulses at least from the modified pulses; and directing the formed light beam of pulses toward a substrate within a lithography exposure apparatus.
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公开(公告)号:US20230017337A1
公开(公告)日:2023-01-19
申请号:US17788370
申请日:2020-12-11
申请人: Cymer, LLC
摘要: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are provided for controlling a laser source that includes two laser discharge chambers. An example laser control system can include a first pulsed powertrain including a first independent circuit configured to generate a first resonant charging supply (RCS) output voltage. The first RCS output voltage can be configured to drive a first laser discharge chamber. The example laser control system can further include a second pulsed powertrain including a second independent circuit configured to generate a second RCS output voltage independent from the first RCS output voltage. The second RCS output voltage can be configured to drive a second laser discharge chamber independent from the first laser discharge chamber.
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公开(公告)号:US20220404717A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-22
申请号:US17772207
申请日:2020-10-16
申请人: Cymer, LLC
IPC分类号: G03F7/20
摘要: A method of generating a test for a radiation source for a lithographic apparatus comprises a step of receiving data corresponding to a plurality of firing patterns of the radiation source. The method further comprises the step of analyzing the data to determine parameters for configuring one or more further firing patterns for testing the radiation source. The parameters are determined such that a stability of the radiation source when executing the one or more further firing patterns configured using the parameters is substantially the same as, or within predefined bounds relative to, a stability of the radiation source when executing the plurality of firing patterns. Furthermore, parameters are determined such that a total duration of the one or more further firing patterns when executed by the radiation source will be less than a duration of the plurality of firing patterns when executed by the radiation source.
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公开(公告)号:US20220255286A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-11
申请号:US17612113
申请日:2020-05-15
申请人: Cymer, LLC
发明人: Yingbo Zhao , Walter Dale Gillespie , Joshua Jon Thornes , Thomas Patrick Duffey , Eric Anders Mason
摘要: A deep ultraviolet (DUV) optical system includes: an optical source system including: a plurality of optical oscillators; a beam combiner; and a beam control apparatus between the optical oscillators and the beam combiner. The beam combiner is configured to receive and direct light emitted from any of the optical oscillators toward a scanner apparatus as an exposure light beam, and the beam control apparatus is configured to determine whether the beam combiner receives light from a particular one of the optical oscillators. The DUV optical lithography system also includes a control system coupled to the optical source system, the control system configured to: determine whether a condition exists in the DUV optical system, and based on a determination that the condition exists, perform a calibration action in a subset of the optical oscillators.
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公开(公告)号:US10288484B2
公开(公告)日:2019-05-14
申请号:US16004942
申请日:2018-06-11
申请人: Cymer, LLC
IPC分类号: G01J1/42 , G01J3/50 , G01J3/02 , G01J3/26 , G01J11/00 , G03F7/20 , H01S4/00 , H01S3/23 , G01J1/04 , H01S3/08 , H01S3/225 , H01S3/00
摘要: A metrology system is used for measuring a spectral feature of a pulsed light beam. The metrology system includes: a beam homogenizer in the path of the pulsed light beam, the beam homogenizer having an array of wavefront modification cells, with each cell having a surface area that matches a size of at least one of the spatial modes of the light beam; an optical frequency separation apparatus in the path of the pulsed light beam exiting the beam homogenizer, wherein the optical frequency separation apparatus is configured to interact with the pulsed light beam and to output a plurality of spatial components that correspond to the spectral components of the pulsed light beam; and at least one sensor that receives and senses the output spatial components.
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