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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. 25, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2023
Applicant:

Asml Netherlands B.v., Veldhoven, NL;

Inventors:

Xuerang Hu, San Jose, CA (US);

Weiming Ren, San Jose, CA (US);

Xuedong Liu, San Jose, CA (US);

Zhong-wei Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

ASML Netherlands B.V., Veldhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/147 (2006.01); H01J 37/12 (2006.01); H01J 37/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/1477 (2013.01); H01J 37/12 (2013.01); H01J 37/26 (2013.01); H01J 2237/0213 (2013.01); H01J 2237/0262 (2013.01); H01J 2237/038 (2013.01); H01J 2237/0435 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising: a first electrically conductive layer, a second electrically conductive layer; a plurality of optics element s between the first electrically conductive layer and the second electrically conductive layer, wherein the plurality of optics elements are configured to influence a plurality of beams of charged particles; a third electrically conductive layer between the first electrically conductive layer and the second electrically conductive layer; and an electrically insulating layer physically connected to the optics elements, wherein the eclectically insulating layer is configured to electrically insulate the optics elements from the first electrically conductive layer, and the second electrically conductive layer.


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