Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ex-situ removal of deposition on an optical element
- Patent Title (中): 在光学元件上原位去除沉积
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Application No.: US12821033Application Date: 2010-06-22
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Publication No.: US08134136B2Publication Date: 2012-03-13
- Inventor: Vadim Yevgenyevich Banine , Vladimir Vitalevitch Ivanov , Josephus Jacobus Smits , Lambertus Adrianus Van Den Wildenberg , Vladimir Mihailovitch Krivtsun , Alexander Matthijs Struycken , Johannes Bernardus Ridder , Harm-Jan Voorma , Carolus Ida Maria Antonius Spee , Klaas Timmer
- Applicant: Vadim Yevgenyevich Banine , Vladimir Vitalevitch Ivanov , Josephus Jacobus Smits , Lambertus Adrianus Van Den Wildenberg , Vladimir Mihailovitch Krivtsun , Alexander Matthijs Struycken , Johannes Bernardus Ridder , Harm-Jan Voorma , Carolus Ida Maria Antonius Spee , Klaas Timmer
- Applicant Address: NL Veldhoven
- Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
- Current Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Veldhoven
- Agency: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
- Main IPC: G03B7/20
- IPC: G03B7/20

Abstract:
A collector assembly with a radiation collector, a cover plate and a support member connecting the radiation collector to the cover plate are provided. The cover plate is designed to cover an opening in a collector chamber. The collector chamber opening may be large enough to pass the radiation collector and the support member. The removed radiation collector can be cleaned with different cleaning procedures, which may be performed in a cleaning device. Such cleaning device may for example consist of the following: a circumferential hull designed to provide an enclosure volume for circumferentially enclosing at least the radiation collector; an inlet configured to provide at least one of a cleaning gas and a cleaning liquid to the enclosure volume to clean at least said radiation collector; and an outlet configured to remove said at least one of said cleaning gas and said cleaning liquid from the enclosure volume.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100290015A1 EX-SITU REMOVAL OF DEPOSITION ON AN OPTICAL ELEMENT Public/Granted day:2010-11-18
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