A new objective for EUV lithography, EUV microscopy, and 2D x-ray imaging

Manfred L. Bitter, Kenneth W. Hill, Philip C. Efthimion, Jian Lu, Brooklyn Frances Kraus, Lan Gao, Luis F. Delgado-Aparicio, Novimir A. Pablant

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Abstract

This paper describes a new objective for EUV lithography, EUV-microscopy, and 2D x-ray imaging, which similar to the well-known Schwarzschild objective and which consists of two concentric, convex and concave, spherical reflectors. Its essentially new feature is that it satisfies the Bragg condition for the wavelength of interest at every point on the surfaces of both reflectors. The reflectors would be spherical multi-layer structures with a uniform 2d-spacing, in the case of EUV radiation, and spherically bent crystals, in the case of x-rays. Thanks to this new feature, it is possible to obtain two-dimensional EUV or x-ray images from a large area, at once. The advantage for EUV lithography would be that an entire mask could be imaged onto a wafer, at once, and that a scanning of the mask by a narrow beam of EUV radiation - which is being used with present systems because the Bragg condition can only locally be satisfied - would no longer be necessary.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography 2017
EditorsToshiro Itani, Kurt G. Ronse, Paolo A. Gargini, Patrick P. Naulleau
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510613744
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
EventInternational Conference on Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography 2017 - Monterey, United States
Duration: Sep 11 2017Sep 14 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume10450
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMonterey
Period9/11/179/14/17

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • EUV-Lithography
  • EUV-microscopy
  • X-ray imaging

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