Abstract:
A target supply device may include a first container configured to contain a target substance, a second container configured to contain the target substance supplied from the first container, a first valve disposed between the first container and the second container, a first pipe connected to the second container and configured to supply pressurized gas to the second container, a third container configured to contain the target substance supplied from the second container, a second valve disposed between the second container and the third container, a second pipe connected to the third container and configured to supply pressurized gas to the third container, and a nozzle configured to output the target substance supplied from the third container.
Abstract:
A target storage device may include a tank configured to store a target that generates extreme ultraviolet light when being irradiated with laser light, a heater connected with the tank and configured to heat the tank, and a radiation member disposed to cover at least a part of the tank connected with the heater and configured to reflect heat radiation from the tank and the heater toward the tank.
Abstract:
An EUV chamber apparatus includes: a chamber; a target generation unit configured to output a target toward a predetermined region inside the chamber; a gas nozzle through which gas is supplied into the chamber; and a shroud including a first flow path through which a first cooling medium circulates and surrounding at least part of the trajectory of the target inside the chamber.
Abstract:
A target generation device replacement trolley includes: A. a linear movement mechanism configured to hold a target generation device configured to output a target material and linearly move the target generation device in a direction in which the target material is output; and B. a positioning portion configured to position the linear movement mechanism relative to a mounting part of a chamber on which the target generation device is mounted. The target generation device replacement trolley further includes C. a drive unit configured to drive the linear movement mechanism. The target generation device replacement trolley further includes D. a mount configured to hold the linear movement mechanism. The positioning portion is provided to the mount.
Abstract:
A tank may include: a tank main body having a space and an opening; a lid body covering the opening and a peripheral portion of the opening; a bolt for fixing the tank main body and the lid body in the peripheral portion; a first support portion arranged to surround the opening in a region on a side of the opening with respect to the bolt to support the lid body; a second support portion arranged to surround the opening in a region on the opening side with respect to the first support portion and having a height lower than a height of the first support portion; and a sealing member arranged to surround the opening in the region on the opening side with respect to the first support portion.
Abstract:
An extreme ultraviolet light generation device may include a chamber in which extreme ultraviolet light is generated from plasma, the plasma generated by irradiation of a target supplied in a plasma generation region inside of the chamber with laser light; a condenser mirror collecting the extreme ultraviolet light and guiding it to outside of the chamber; a first etching gas supply unit blowing an etching gas to a reflective surface of the condenser mirror and the plasma generation region; a magnet forming a magnetic field in the chamber; a port that intersects a central axis of the magnetic field and that takes in suspended substances generated in the chamber; and an ejection path that is in communication with the port and that ejects the suspended substances taken from the port to the outside of the chamber.
Abstract:
An EUV light source apparatus by which detachment of a chamber or a part of the chamber, movement to a maintenance area, and highly accurate placement relative to projection optics can be performed easily for maintenance of the EUV light source apparatus. The EUV light source apparatus is an apparatus for generating plasma by applying a laser beam to a target material within a chamber and entering EUV light radiated from the plasma into projection optics of exposure equipment, and includes a positioning mechanism for positioning the chamber or a maintenance unit of the chamber in a predetermined location where an optical axis of the collected extreme ultraviolet light and an optical axis of the projection optics of the exposure equipment are aligned, and a movement mechanism for moving the chamber or the maintenance unit of the chamber between the predetermined location and a maintenance area.
Abstract:
A chamber apparatus used with an external apparatus having an obscuration region may include: a chamber in which extreme ultraviolet light is generated; a collector mirror provided in the chamber for collecting the extreme ultraviolet light; a support for securing the collector mirror to the chamber; and an output port provided to the chamber for allowing the extreme ultraviolet light collected by the collector mirror to be introduced therethrough into the external apparatus.
Abstract:
An extreme ultraviolet light generation apparatus includes: a chamber; a target supply unit that supplies a droplet of a target substance to a plasma generation region in the chamber; a first pipe at least partly covering a trajectory of the droplet and having a first opened end part as an upstream end part and a second opened end part as a downstream end part in a trajectory direction; a second pipe at least partly covering the first pipe with a gap between the second pipe and the first pipe, and having a third end part, opened and extending downstream of the second end part of the first pipe in the trajectory direction, as a downstream end part in the trajectory direction; and a gas supply unit that supplies gas flowing through the gap and causes the gas to flow in the trajectory direction out of a gas exit.
Abstract:
A target generation device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a tank for containing a target substance, a heater provided at the tank, a nozzle communicating with the inside of the tank, a lid having a gas inlet port communicating with the inside of the tank, and a plurality of shielding plates that are disposed inside the tank and suppress entry of the target substance to the gas inlet port. Each of the shielding plates includes at least one non-shielding region for allowing the gas to pass through. The non-shielding regions of at least two of the shielding plates are arranged at positions in which one of the non-shielding regions of the at least two of the shielding plates is not seen into the other of the non-shielding regions of the at least two of the shielding plates.