Asml Netherlands B.v.

Ellard Alexander Meijer

Johannes Hubertus Josephina Moors

Hendricus Johannes Maria Meijer

Gert-Jan Heerens

Robert Gabriël Maria Lansbergen

Bastiaan Matthias Mertens

Hans Meiling

Erik Leonardus Ham

According to an embodiment, a box for transporting a lithographic patterning device is arranged to cooperate with a lithographic apparatus. The transport box may be provided with a container part having an inner space with a storing position for storing the patterning device and an opening for the transfer of the patterning device. Prior to transfer of the patterning device from the inner space to the apparatus, the inner space is pressurized. The box may also comprise a closure part for closing the opening, and/or a channel system for evacuating and/or feeding gasses from/to the inner space of the box. Other embodiments include a lithographic apparatus comprising and/or configured to cooperate with such a box.

Lithographic apparatus and patterning device transport

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Haarlem, Netherlands

Ellard Alexander Meijer