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Hollow laser self-confined plasma for extreme ultraviolet lithography and other applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

V. SIZYUK ,
A. HASSANEIN  and
T. SIZYUK
V. SIZYUK
Affiliation:
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois
A. HASSANEIN
Affiliation:
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois
T. SIZYUK
Affiliation:
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois
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Abstract

Laser-produced plasma (LPP) devices are being developed as a light source for the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography applications. One concern of such devices is to increase the conversion efficiency of laser energy to EUV light. A new idea based on the initiation and confinement of cumulative plasma jet inside a hollow laser beam is developed and simulated. The integrated computer model (HEIGHTS) was used to simulate the plasma behavior and the EUV radiation output in the LPP devices. The model takes into account plasma heat conduction and magnetohydrodynamic processes in a two-temperature approximation, as well as detailed photon radiation transport in 3D Monte Carlo model. The model employs cylindrical 2D version of a total variation-diminishing scheme (for the plasma hydrodynamics) and an implicit scheme with the sparse matrix linear solver (to describe heat conduction). Numerical simulations showed that the EUV efficiency of the proposed hollow-beam LPP device to be higher than the current standard devices.

Keywords

Extreme ultravioletHollow laserLaser plasmasPlasma device modeling
Type
Research Article
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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 143 - 154
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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