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Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2017
Applicants:

Asml Holding N.v., Veldhoven, NL;

Asml Netherlands B.v., Veldhoven, NL;

Inventors:

Earl William Ebert, Oxford, CT (US);

Johannes Onvlee, s-Hertogenbosch, NL;

Samir A. Nayfeh, Shrewsbury, MA (US);

Mark Josef Schuster, Fairfield, CT (US);

Peter A. Delmastro, New Milfort, CT (US);

Christopher Charles Ward, Somerville, MA (US);

Frank Johannes Jacobus Van Boxtel, Eindhoven, NL;

Abdullah Alikhan, Wilton, CT (US);

Daniel Nathan Burbank, Wilton, CT (US);

Daniel Nicholas Galburt, Wilton, CT (US);

Justin Matthew Verdirame, Cambridge, MA (US);

Assignees:

ASML Holding N.V., Veldhoven, NL;

ASML Netherlands B.V., Veldhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 7/70875 (2013.01); G03F 7/70341 (2013.01); G03F 7/70716 (2013.01); G03F 7/70808 (2013.01); G03F 7/70858 (2013.01); G03F 7/70866 (2013.01);
Abstract

A patterning device support for controlling a temperature of a patterning device can include a movable component. The movable component can include a gas inlet for supplying a gas flow across a surface of the patterning device and a gas outlet for extracting the gas flow. The patterning device support can also include a gas flow generator coupled to a duct, for recirculating the gas flow from the gas outlet to the gas inlet.


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