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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2021
Asml Netherlands B.v., Veldhoven, NL;
Nick Kant, Ultrecht, NL;
Martijn Cornelis Schaafsma, Eindhoven, NL;
ASML Netherlands B.V., Veldhoven, NL;
Abstract
A lithographic apparatus comprising a projection system comprising at least one optical component and configured to project a pattern onto a substrate. The lithographic apparatus further comprises a control system arranged to reduce the effects of heating and/or cooling of an optical component in a lithographic process. The control system is configured at least: to select at least one of a plurality of mode shapes to represent a relationship between at least one input in the lithographic process and an aberration resulting from the input and to generate and apply a correction to the lithographic apparatus based on the mode shape.