Abstract: A gas curtain is provided to separate a component of a lithographic apparatus from contaminated gas. The gas curtain is supplied by an opening. The opening is at a boundary of a protection environment with which a surface of the component comes into contact. The gas curtain may separate the component from a moving part of the apparatus.

Abstract: A coating composition comprising an oxidatively drying coating binder and a chelate comprising at least one group according to the following formula I: 1

Abstract: Coating composition and its use in a one-pot system. The coating composition comprises: an oxidatively drying polyunsaturated condensation product, such as an alkyd, having pendant groups in an amount of more than 20% by weight of the condensation product, the pendant groups comprising unsaturated CC bonds; a polythiol having two or more SH-groups; a siccative. The equivalence ratio of thiol functional groups to unsaturated CC bonds being less than 0.3, preferably between 0.01 and 0.25. The coating composition comprises 1-30 wt-%, preferably 3-20 wt-%, of thiol compounds, related to the total weight of solid resin. The coating composition further comprises a drying accelerating complexing agent, preferably 2,2′-bipyridyl or 1,10-phenantroline.

Abstract: Coating composition and its use in a one-pot system.

Abstract: Method for placing modules on a carrier. Modules, for example cells, are placed on a carrier, for example a chip, with the method. For placement, the modules are arranged such on the placement region of the carrier that the center of gravity of the modules falls onto the center coordinates of the placement region (global placement S1). Subsequently, the placement region is partitioned into sub-regions, modules are allocated to the sub-regions and the area of the sub-regions is defined in the ratio of the area of the modules allocated to these sub-regions (partitioning, S2). In the next step, a global placement is again carried out, i.e. the modules are arranged such in the sub-regions that the modules allocated to the sub-regions have their center of gravity falling onto the center coordinates of these sub-regions. The steps of global placement and of partitioning follow one another until only at most k modules are still present per sub-region.