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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2003
Bastiaan Lambertus Wilhelmus Marinus Van DE Ven, Den Bosch, NL;
Erik Leonardus Ham, Rotterdam, NL;
Bastiaan Lambertus Wilhelmus Marinus Van De Ven, Den Bosch, NL;
Erik Leonardus Ham, Rotterdam, NL;
ASML Netherlands B.V., Veldhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to a lithographic apparatus including an illumination system for providing a projection beam of radiation, a support structure for supporting patterning means, the patterning means serving to impart the projection beam with a pattern in its cross-section, a dust-right storage container defining a storage space for storing patterning structures, wherein the storage container is arranged to be coupled with a transfer container such that the transfer container for exchanging patterning structures between the transfer container and the lithographic apparatus through a closeable passage between the transfer container and the storage container, a substrate table for holding a substrate and a projection system for projecting the patterned beam onto a target portion of the substrate. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method of using such an apparatus.