Coherent light generators – Particular active media – Gas
Patent
1995-08-08
1997-08-26
Bovernick, Rodney B.
Coherent light generators
Particular active media
Gas
372 38, H01S 322, H01S 3223
Patent
active
056617445
ABSTRACT:
An excimer laser beam irradiation apparatus capable of processing a workpiece optimally with an excimer irradiation beam even when intensity distribution of the excimer laser beam undergone multiple reflections is non-uniform. A patterning mask has light-transmissive portions for allowing the excimer laser beam to pass through and a reflecting layer for reflecting it. A high reflectivity mirror disposed in opposition to the reflecting layer reflects the excimer laser beam reflected from the reflecting layer toward the patterning mask. An imaging lens images a pattern of the excimer laser beam transmitted through the patterning mask onto a workpiece for irradiation thereof. A workpiece moving mechanism and a mask moving mechanism move the workpiece and the mask moving mechanism, respectively. A control unit controls the workpiece moving mechanism and the mask moving mechanism such that the patterning mask and the workpiece are displaced along a same axis synchronously with each other in a scan moving direction which coincides with a direction in which the excimer laser beam shifts positionally while being reflected between the patterning mask and the reflecting means, for thereby allowing the workpiece to be scanned with the excimer laser beam. The workpiece can be processed uniformly and stably in accordance with a pattern of the patterning mask with high accuracy and reliability.
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Ito Keiko
Minagawa Tadao
Murakami Kazuyuki
Nakatani Hajime
Sugitatsu Atsushi
Bovernick Rodney B.
Mitsubishi Denki & Kabushiki Kaisha
Wise Robert E.
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