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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2014
Applicant:
Cymer, Llc, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventor:
Vladimir B. Fleurov, Escondido, CA (US);
Assignee:
ASML Netherlands B.V., Veldhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 5/02 (2006.01); H05G 2/00 (2006.01); G03F 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05G 2/008 (2013.01); G03F 7/70033 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for producing EUV light using a drive laser beam to irradiate a stream of material droplets. There is included a monitoring system for monitoring at least one of drive laser beam reflection from the drive laser beam and EUV radiation pulses and producing a detector signal, the detector signal being a pulse train. There is also included an arrangement for analyzing the detector signal to ascertain whether there exists at least one satellite droplet in the stream of material droplets.