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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2015
Applicant:
Plex Llc, Fall River, MA (US);
Inventor:
Malcolm W. McGeoch, Little Compton, RI (US);
Assignee:
PLEX LLC, Fall River, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05G 2/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05G 2/003 (2013.01); H05G 2/008 (2013.01);
Abstract
A laser-produced plasma extreme ultraviolet source has a buffer gas to slow ions down and thermalize them in a low temperature plasma. The plasma is initially trapped in a symmetrical cusp magnetic field configuration with a low magnetic field barrier to radial motion. Plasma overflows in a full range of radial directions and is conducted by radial field lines to a large area annular array of beam dumps.