Photocopying – Projection printing and copying cameras – Illumination systems or details
Reexamination Certificate
2008-11-14
2011-10-18
Nguyen, Hung Henry (Department: 2882)
Photocopying
Projection printing and copying cameras
Illumination systems or details
C355S071000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08040492
ABSTRACT:
An illumination system of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus, as well as related systems, methods and components are disclosed. The illumination system can include a polarization manipulator configured to variably adjust a change in the polarization state of light impinging thereon. The illumination system can also include a mirror arrangement having a plurality of mirror elements that are displaceable independently of each other to alter an angle distribution of the light reflected by the mirror arrangement. A change in the intensity distribution caused by the polarization manipulator in a plane of the projection exposure apparatus can be at least partially compensated by the mirror arrangement.
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Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
Fish & Richardson P.C.
Iacoletti Michelle
Nguyen Hung Henry
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