• DocumentCode
    412441
  • Title

    Laser heating of noble gas droplet sprays: EUV source efficiency considerations

  • Author

    Parra, E. ; Fan, J. ; McNaught, S.J. ; Milchberg, H.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Phys. Sci. & Technol., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    6-6 June 2003
  • Abstract
    We show that optimizing EUV yield from laser-heated droplet targets requires matching the pulsewidth to the droplet size if the emission feature is from collisional excitation; it can be longer if the feature is from recombination.
  • Keywords
    drops; inert gases; plasma production by laser; spraying; ultraviolet lithography; EUV source efficiency; collisional excitation; emission feature; laser heating; noble gas droplet sprays; pulsewidth matching; Argon; Delay; Gas lasers; Heating; Optical pulses; Probes; Pump lasers; Spraying; Ultraviolet sources; X-ray lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-748-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1298592