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 …

Microdroplet-tin plasma sources of EUV radiation driven by solid-state-lasers (Topical Review)

OO Versolato, J Sheil, S Witte, W Ubachs… - Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasma produced from molten-tin microdroplets generates extreme ultraviolet light for state-
of-the-art nanolithography. Currently, CO 2 lasers are used to drive the plasma. In the future …

Extreme ultraviolet light from a tin plasma driven by a 2-µm-wavelength laser

L Behnke, R Schupp, Z Bouza, M Bayraktar… - Optics express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
An experimental study of laser-produced plasmas is performed by irradiating a planar tin
target by laser pulses, of 4.8 ns duration, produced from a KTP-based 2-µm-wavelength …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Production of 13.5 nm light with 5% conversion efficiency from 2 μm laser-driven tin microdroplet plasma

Y Mostafa, L Behnke, DJ Engels, Z Bouza… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate the efficient generation of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light from laser-
produced plasma (LPP) driven by 2 μm wavelength laser light as an alternative for 10 μm …

[HTML][HTML] Radiation transport and scaling of optical depth in Nd: YAG laser-produced microdroplet-tin plasma

R Schupp, F Torretti, RA Meijer, M Bayraktar… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Experimental scaling relations of the optical depth are presented for the emission spectra of
a tin-droplet-based, 1-μm-laser-produced plasma source of extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) light …

Spectral characterization of an industrial EUV light source for nanolithography

F Torretti, F Liu, M Bayraktar, J Scheers… - Journal of physics D …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The emission spectra from an industrial, droplet-based, laser-produced plasma, extreme
ultraviolet light source for nanolithography are here presented and analyzed. The …