Potential of discharge-based lithium plasma as an extreme ultraviolet source

Majid Masnavi, Mitsuo Nakajima, Akira Sasaki, Eiki Hotta, Kazuhiko Horioka
2006 Applied Physics Letters  
Extreme ultraviolet ͑EUV͒ discharge-based lamps for EUV lithography need to generate extremely high power in the spectrum band of 13.5± 0.135 nm. A model was developed to investigate the wavelength-integrated Lyman-␣ lines light outputs in hydrogen-like lithium ion. The analysis reveals that the commonly observed low conversion efficiency is largely due to a transient nature of Z discharge-based plasma and that a magnetically confined lithium plasma is an efficient EUV source even at low
more » ... n temperature. Calculation shows necessary confinement time that raises the conversion efficiency up to half the spectral efficiency.
doi:10.1063/1.2227560 fatcat:oxmog5txprcsblhvet2ogv5kdi