Physics of laser-driven tin plasma sources of EUV radiation for nanolithography

OO Versolato - Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-produced transient tin plasmas are the sources of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light at
13.5 nm wavelength for next-generation nanolithography, enabling the continued …

Prominent radiative contributions from multiply-excited states in laser-produced tin plasma for nanolithography

F Torretti, J Sheil, R Schupp, MM Basko… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is currently entering high-volume manufacturing to
enable the continued miniaturization of semiconductor devices. The required EUV light, at …

Spectroscopy of highly charged ions and its relevance to EUV and soft x-ray source development

G O'Sullivan, B Li, R D'Arcy, P Dunne… - Journal of Physics B …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The primary requirement for the development of tools for extreme ultraviolet lithography
(EUVL) has been the identification and optimization of suitable sources. These sources must …

Review of the 1st EUV Light Sources Code Comparison Workshop

J Sheil, O Versolato, V Bakshi, H Scott - Atoms, 2023 - mdpi.com
We review the results of the 1 st Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Light Sources Code Comparison
Workshop. The goal of this workshop was to provide a platform for specialists in EUV light …

Efficient Generation of Extreme Ultraviolet Light From :YAG-Driven Microdroplet-Tin Plasma

R Schupp, F Torretti, RA Meijer, M Bayraktar… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
We experimentally investigate the emission of EUV light from a mass-limited laser-produced
plasma over a wide parameter range by varying the diameter of the targeted tin …

Tungsten spectra recorded at the LHD and comparison with calculations

CS Harte, C Suzuki, T Kato, HA Sakaue… - Journal of Physics B …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We have measured extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectra from highly charged tungsten ions in
low-density and high-temperature plasmas produced in the Large Helical Device at the …

Characterization of angularly resolved EUV emission from 2-µm-wavelength laser-driven Sn plasmas using preformed liquid disk targets

R Schupp, L Behnke, Z Bouza, Z Mazzotta… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The emission properties of tin plasmas, produced by the irradiation of preformed liquid tin
targets by several-ns-long 2 µm-wavelength laser pulses, are studied in the extreme …

EUV spectroscopy of highly charged ions in an electron-beam ion trap

J Scheers, C Shah, A Ryabtsev, H Bekker, F Torretti… - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) spectra of Sn 13+− Sn 15+ ions have been measured in an
electron-beam ion trap (EBIT). A matrix inversion method is employed to unravel convoluted …

Characterization of 1- and -wavelength laser-produced microdroplet-tin plasma for generating extreme-ultraviolet light

R Schupp, L Behnke, J Sheil, Z Bouza, M Bayraktar… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Experimental spectroscopic studies are presented, in a 5.5–25.5 nm extreme-ultraviolet
(EUV) wavelength range, of the light emitted from plasma produced by the irradiation of tin …

Analysis of the fine structure of ions by optical spectroscopy in an electron-beam ion trap

A Windberger, F Torretti, A Borschevsky, A Ryabtsev… - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
We experimentally re-evaluate the fine structure of Sn 11+–Sn 14+ ions. These ions are
essential in bright extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) plasma-light sources for next-generation …