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Illumination device for a projection microlithography tool

Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
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Filing: 1996-04-30
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2016-04-30
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Abstract

Abstract The illumination source uses a laser (1) and an objective (2), with respective diffractive optical rasters (8,9), with a 2-dimensional raster structure, positioned in the exit pupil and object plane of the objective. Pref. the first raster (9) is used to convert the rectangular divergence distribution of the lase beam into a circular, annular or quadrupole output divergence distribution, the second raster (8) providing a direction-dependent divergence.

Inventors

  • 👤 Johannes Wangler
  • 👤 Gerhard Ittner

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction EP
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Last Synchronized 2026-11-08 11:18
CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03F; G03F7/00; G03F7/70; G03F7/70058; G03F7/70066; G02; G02B; G02B27/00; G03F7/70075; G03F7/70483; G03F7/7055; G03F7/70583

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