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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021

Filed:

Jul. 15, 2019
Applicant:

Carl Zeiss Smt Gmbh, Oberkochen, DE;

Inventors:

Dmitry Kuznetsov, Enschede, NL;

Andrey E. Yakshin, Niewegein, NL;

Hartmut Enkisch, Aalen, DE;

Viacheslav Medvedev, Moscow, RU;

Frederik Bijkerk, Bosch en Duin, NL;

Assignee:

Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH, Oberkochen, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21K 1/06 (2006.01); G03F 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21K 1/062 (2013.01); G03F 7/7015 (2013.01); G03F 7/70958 (2013.01);
Abstract

For a working wavelength in the range from 1 nm to 12 nm, a reflective optical element has, on a substrate, a multilayer system that includes at least two alternating materials having a different real part of the refractive index at the working wavelength. The multilayer system includes a first alternating material from the group formed from thorium, uranium, barium, nitrides thereof, carbides thereof, borides thereof, lanthanum carbide, lanthanum nitride, lanthanum boride, and a second alternating material from the group formed from carbon, boron, boron carbide, or lanthanum as first alternating material and carbon or boron as second alternating material. It has, on the side of the multilayer system remote from the substrate, a protective layer system including a nitride, an oxide and/or a platinum metal.


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