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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2015
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ralf Hofmann, Soquel, CA (US);
Vinayak Vishwanath Hassan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cara Beasley, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Majeed A. Foad, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method of manufacture of an extreme ultraviolet reflective element includes: a substrate; a multilayer stack on the substrate, the multilayer stack includes a plurality of reflective layer pairs having a first reflective layer formed from silicon and a second reflective layer formed from niobium or niobium carbide for forming a Bragg reflector; and a capping layer on and over the multilayer stack for protecting the multilayer stack by reducing oxidation and mechanical erosion.