Projection exposure apparatus

Details Projection exposure apparatus Projection exposure apparatus

1993-03-08

1994-06-21

Hayes, Monroe H.

Photocopying

Projection printing and copying cameras

Step and repeat

355 71, G03B 2742

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053232089

ABSTRACT:
In a reduction-type projection exposure apparatus provided by the present invention, a spatial filter having a predetermined complex amplitude-transmission distribution is fixed approximately at the pupil position of a projection lens thereof or at such a position that the spatial filter conjugates with the pupil. The complex amplitude transmittance of the spatial filter is controlled by a multiple-interference effect of the multi-layer coating forming the spatial filter or by the surface reflection occurring on the surface of the film which constitutes the spatial filter and has an index of refraction different from the air. The filter can thus be prevented from absorbing light, incurring neither thermal damage nor damage due to dissipated heat. As a result, the reduction-type projection exposure apparatus offers excellent resolution and an outstanding depth of focus.

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patent: 5144362 (1992-09-01), Kamon et al.
patent: 5251067 (1993-10-01), Kamon
patent: 5253040 (1993-10-01), Kamon et al.
patent: 5264898 (1993-11-01), Kamon et al.
Japanese Society of Applied Physics and Related Societies, No. 2, 1991, p. 534.

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