摘要:
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally provide improved photolithography systems and methods using a digital micromirror device (DMD). The DMD comprises columns and rows of micromirrors disposed opposite a substrate. Light beams reflect off the micromirrors onto the substrate, resulting in a patterned substrate. Certain subsets of the columns and rows of micromirrors may be positioned to the “off” position, such that they dump light, in order to correct for uniformity errors, i.e., features larger than desired, in the patterned substrate. Similarly, certain subsets of the columns and rows of micromirrors may be defaulted to the “off” position and selectively allowed to return to their programmed position in order to correct for uniformity errors, i.e., features smaller than desired, in the patterned substrate.
摘要:
An imaging optical unit for imaging an object field in an image field is disclosed. The imaging optical unit has an obscured pupil. This pupil has a center, through which a chief ray of a central field point passes. The imaging optical unit furthermore has a plurality of imaging optical components. A gravity center of a contiguous pupil obscuration region of the imaging optical unit lies decentrally in the pupil of the imaging optical unit.
摘要:
An EUV mirror with a substrate and a multilayer arrangement including: a periodic first layer group having N1>1 first layer pairs of period thickness P1 and arranged on a radiation entrance side of the multilayer arrangement; a periodic second layer group having N2>1 second layer pairs of period thickness P2 and arranged between the first layer group and the substrate; and a third layer group having N3 third layer pairs arranged between the first and second layer groups. N1>N2. The third layer group has a third period thickness P3 which deviates from an average period thickness PM=(P1+P2)/2 by a period thickness difference ΔP. ΔP corresponds to the quotient of the optical layer thickness (λ/4) of a quarter-wave layer and the product of N3 and cos(AOIM), AOIM being the mean incidence angle for which the multilayer arrangement is designed.
摘要:
An optical apparatus has a moveable reflective element and associated actuator. The actuator includes a first magnet which is connected to the moveable reflective element such that movement of the first magnet will cause the moveable reflective element to move, and a second magnet which is connected to a motor such that operation of the motor will cause the second magnet to move. The second magnet is positioned relative to the first magnet such that moving the second magnet will cause the first magnet to move.
摘要:
A system and method are provided for writing patterns onto substrates. First and second beams of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation are produced. An exposure unit is used to project the first and second beams of EUV radiation onto a substrate. The first and second beams of radiation interfere with each other to expose a first set of parallel lines at an exposure field of the substrate.
摘要:
An imaging optical system has a plurality of mirrors, which via a beam path for imaging light, image an object field in an object plane into an image field in an image plane. The imaging optical system has an exit pupil obscuration. At least one of the mirrors has no opening for passage of the imaging light. The fourth to last mirror in the beam path is concave, resulting in an imaging optical system having improved imaging properties without compromise in throughput.
摘要:
For the use in illumination systems and projection exposure apparatuses for UV or EUV lithography, a reflective optical element is provided for a operating wavelength in the ultraviolet to extreme ultraviolet wavelength ranges. The reflective optical element includes a substrate and a reflective surface on the substrate. The multilayer system has layers of at least two alternating materials having different real parts of the refractive index at the operating wavelength. Radiation in the operating wavelength of a certain incident angle bandwidth distribution can impinge on the reflective optical element. The reflective surface includes one or more first portions, in which the layers have alternating materials of a first period thickness. The reflective surface includes one or more additional portions, in which the layers of alternating materials have a first period thickness and at least one additional period thickness. The arrangement of the first and additional portions across the reflective surface is adapted to the incident angle bandwidth distribution. Furthermore, a projection system and a projection exposure apparatus including such a reflective optical element are suggested.
摘要:
An imaging optical system includes a plurality of mirrors that image an object field in an object plane into an image field in an image plane. At least one of the mirrors is obscured, and thus has a opening for imaging light to pass through. The fourth-last mirror in the light path before the image field is not obscured and provides, with an outer edge of the optically effective reflection surface thereof, a central shadowing in a pupil plane of the imaging optical system. The distance between the fourth-last mirror and the last mirror along the optical axis is at least 10% of the distance between the object field and the image field. An intermediate image, which is closest to the image plane, is arranged between the last mirror and the image plane. The imaging optical system can have a numerical aperture of 0.9. These measures, not all of which must be effected simultaneously, lead to an imaging optical system with improved imaging properties and/or reduced production costs.
摘要:
An optical imaging system serving for imaging a pattern arranged in an object plane of the imaging system into an image plane of the imaging system with the aid of electromagnetic radiation from a wavelength range around a main wavelength λ0 has a multiplicity of mirrors. Each mirror has a mirror surface having a reflective layer arrangement having a sequence of individual layers.