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Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 09, 2012
Applicant:

Kla-tencor Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);

Inventor:

Karl R. Umstadter, Livermore, CA (US);

Assignee:

KLA-Tencor Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05H 1/00 (2006.01); H01J 27/08 (2006.01); G03F 7/20 (2006.01); H01J 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05H 1/00 (2013.01); G03F 7/70916 (2013.01); H01J 17/30 (2013.01); H01J 27/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure is directed to a system and method of fueling and mitigating debris for an illumination source. An illumination system may include a plasma-based illumination source. The illumination system may provide illumination along an illumination path emanating from an illumination origin of the illumination source. A gas jet nozzle may be disposed at a selected distance from the illumination origin or proximate to the illumination origin. The gas jet nozzle may be configured to provide fuel gas to fuel the plasma-based illumination source. The gas jet nozzle may be further configured to provide fuel gas in a selected direction substantially opposite to a direction of illumination emanating from the illumination origin to remove at least a portion of debris from the illumination path.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Umstadter, Karl. (2015). System and method of simultaneously fueling and mitigating debris for a plasma-based illumination source (U.S. Patent No. 9155180). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9155180

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