Photocopying – Projection printing and copying cameras – Illumination systems or details
Reexamination Certificate
2005-04-08
2008-03-18
Nguyen, Henry Hung (Department: 2851)
Photocopying
Projection printing and copying cameras
Illumination systems or details
C355S069000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07345740
ABSTRACT:
A lithographic apparatus uses polarized light to improve the imaging properties such as exposure latitude, while maintaining and extending the lifetime of an illumination system in a lithographic apparatus.
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De Boeij Wilhelmus Petrus
De Jonge Roel
Fiolka Damian
Heil Tilmann
Wagner Christian
ASML Netherlands B.V.
Nguyen Henry Hung
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw & Pittman LLP
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