Combined effects of prepulsing and target geometry on efficient extreme ultraviolet production from laser produced plasma experiments and modeling

Ahmed Hassanein; Tatyana Sizyuk; Valeryi A. Sizyuk; Sivanandan S. Harilal

doi:10.1117/1.3609043

1 July 2011 Combined effects of prepulsing and target geometry on efficient extreme ultraviolet production from laser produced plasma experiments and modeling

Ahmed Hassanein, Tatyana Sizyuk, Valeryi A. Sizyuk, Sivanandan S. Harilal

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Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, Vol. 10, Issue 3, 033002 (July 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3609043

Abstract

Laser produced plasmas (LPPs) are currently a promising source of an efficient extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photon source production for advanced lithography. Optimum laser pulse parameters with adjusted wavelength, energy, and duration for a simple planar or spherical tin target can provide 2% to 3% conversion efficiency (CE) in laboratory experiments. Additional effects such as targets with complex geometry and tin-doped targets using prepulsing of laser beams can significantly increase CE. Recent studies showed that such improvements in an LPP system are due to reduction in laser energy losses by decreasing photons transmission (higher harmonic of Nd:yttrium-aluminum-garnet laser) or photons reflection (for CO₂ laser). Optimization of target heating using prepulses or ablating low-density and nanoporous tin oxide can further improve LLP sources by creating more efficient plasma plumes and, as a result, increase CE, the most important parameter for EUV sources. We investigated the combined effects of prepulsing with various parameters and different target geometries on EUV conversion efficiency and on energetic ions production. The much higher reflectivity of CO₂ laser from a tin target leads to two possible ways for system improvement using prepulses with shorter laser wavelengths or using more complex targets geometries with special grooves as developed previously by the authors.

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Ahmed Hassanein, Tatyana Sizyuk, Valeryi A. Sizyuk, and Sivanandan S. Harilal "Combined effects of prepulsing and target geometry on efficient extreme ultraviolet production from laser produced plasma experiments and modeling," Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS 10(3), 033002 (1 July 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3609043

Published: 1 July 2011

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