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Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 09, 2020
Applicant:

Gigaphoton Inc., Tochigi, JP;

Inventors:

Masaki Nakano, Oyama, JP;

Yutaka Shiraishi, Oyama, JP;

Assignee:

Gigaphoton Inc., Tochigi, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 7/20 (2006.01); H05G 2/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 7/70891 (2013.01); G03F 7/70033 (2013.01); G03F 7/70491 (2013.01); H05G 2/006 (2013.01);
Abstract

An extreme ultraviolet light generation device includes: a target supply unit including a nozzle through which a target substance in a liquid form is output into a chamber; a piezoelectric element configured to vibrate the nozzle under a droplet connection condition to regularly generate a droplet of the target substance; and a control unit configured to perform search processing of changing a drive condition of the piezoelectric element to search for a drive condition of the piezoelectric element corresponding to the droplet connection condition and configured to set a drive condition of the piezoelectric element used for generation of extreme ultraviolet light based on a result of the search processing. The control unit preliminarily drives the piezoelectric element before performing the search processing and starts the search processing after performing the preliminary drive.


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