Patents by Inventor Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus Vermeulen
Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus Vermeulen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230360954Abstract: A substrate holder for use in a lithographic apparatus and configured to support a substrate, the substrate holder having a main body having a main body surface, a plurality of main burls projecting from the main body surface, wherein each main burl has a distal end surface configured to support the substrate, a first seal member projecting from the main body surface and having an upper surface, the first seal member surrounding the plurality of main burls and configured to restrict the passage of liquid between the substrate and the main body surface radially inward past the first seal member, and a plurality of minor burls projecting from the upper surface of the first seal member, wherein each minor burl has a distal end surface configured to support the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Niek Jacobus Johannes ROSET, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus VERMEULEN, Simon Karel RAVENSBERGEN, Mark Constant Johannes BAGGEN, Gijs KRAMER, Roger Anton Marie TIMMERMANS, Frank Pieter Albert VAN DEN BERKMORTEL
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Patent number: 11749556Abstract: A substrate holder for use in a lithographic apparatus and configured to support a substrate, the substrate holder having a main body having a main body surface, a plurality of main burls projecting from the main body surface, wherein each main burl has a distal end surface configured to support the substrate, a first seal member projecting from the main body surface and having an upper surface, the first seal member surrounding the plurality of main burls and configured to restrict the passage of liquid between the substrate and the main body surface radially inward past the first seal member, and a plurality of minor burls projecting from the upper surface of the first seal member, wherein each minor burl has a distal end surface configured to support the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Niek Jacobus Johannes Roset, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus Vermeulen, Simon Karel Ravensbergen, Mark Constant Johannes Baggen, Gijs Kramer, Roger Anton Marie Timmermans, Frank Pieter Albert Van Den Berkmortel
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Patent number: 11385547Abstract: An extraction body for a support apparatus of a lithographic apparatus. The support apparatus is configured to support an object. The extraction body is formed with an opening at a surface thereof. The opening extends within the extraction body forming a first passageway. The first passageway is configured to fluidly communicate an extraction channel in the extraction body to liquid between the surface and the object. A first pressure in the extraction channel is less than ambient pressure. At least a part of the first passageway is sized and dimensioned such that when the liquid enters the first passageway via the opening, a second pressure in the first passageway associated with surface tension of the liquid is lower than the first pressure such that at least a portion of the liquid is retained in the first passageway.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Gijs Kramer, Martijn Houben, Nicholas Peter Waterson, Thibault Simon Mathieu Laurent, Yuri Johannes Gabriël Van De Vijver, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus Vermeulen, Simon Karel Ravensbergen, Vincentius Fransiscus Cloosterman, Siegfried Alexander Tromp, Coen Hubertus Matheus Baltis, Justin Johannes Hermanus Gerritzen, Niek Jacobus Johannes Roset
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Publication number: 20220051927Abstract: A substrate holder for use in a lithographic apparatus and configured to support a substrate, the substrate holder having a main body having a main body surface, a plurality of main burls projecting from the main body surface, wherein each main burl has a distal end surface configured to support the substrate, a first seal member projecting from the main body surface and having an upper surface, the first seal member surrounding the plurality of main burls and configured to restrict the passage of liquid between the substrate and the main body surface radially inward past the first seal member, and a plurality of minor burls projecting from the upper surface of the first seal member, wherein each minor burl has a distal end surface configured to support the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Niek Jacobus Johannes ROSET, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus VERMEULEN, Simon Karel RAVENSBERGEN, Mark Constant Johannes BAGGEN, Gijs KRAMER, Roger Anton Marie TIMMERMANS, Frank Pieter Albert VAN DEN BERKMORTEL
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Patent number: 11139196Abstract: A substrate holder for use in a lithographic apparatus and configured to support a substrate, the substrate holder having a main body having a main body surface, a plurality of main burls projecting from the main body surface, wherein each main burl has a distal end surface configured to support the substrate, a first seal member projecting from the main body surface and having an upper surface, the first seal member surrounding the plurality of main burls and configured to restrict the passage of liquid between the substrate and the main body surface radially inward past the first seal member, and a plurality of minor burls projecting from the upper surface of the first seal member, wherein each minor burl has a distal end surface configured to support the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Niek Jacobus Johannes Roset, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus Vermeulen, Simon Karel Ravensbergen, Mark Constant Johannes Baggen, Gijs Kramer, Roger Anton Marie Timmermans, Frank Pieter Albert Van Den Berkmortel
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Publication number: 20210263418Abstract: A tool for modifying substrate support elements of a substrate holder, the substrate support elements having support surfaces for supporting a substrate, the tool includes a main body having a main body surface, and multiple protrusions from the main body surface, the multiple protrusions having distal ends configured to contact the support surfaces to modify the substrate support elements. Furthermore, a lithographic apparatus and a method comprising such a tool are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Bert Dirk SCHOLTEN, Peter Andreas Maria BILLEKENS, Tiannan GUAN, Tjarco LINDEIJER, Harold Anton MEHAGNOUL, Jimmy Matheus Wilhelmus VAN DE WINKEL, Cas Johannes Petrus Maria VAN NUENEN, Hendrikus Theodorus Jacobus Franciscus VAN VERSEVELD, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus VERMEULEN
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Publication number: 20200294841Abstract: A substrate holder for use in a lithographic apparatus and configured to support a substrate, the substrate holder having a main body having a main body surface, a plurality of main burls projecting from the main body surface, wherein each main burl has a distal end surface configured to support the substrate, a first seal member projecting from the main body surface and having an upper surface, the first seal member surrounding the plurality of main burls and configured to restrict the passage of liquid between the substrate and the main body surface radially inward past the first seal member, and a plurality of minor burls projecting from the upper surface of the first seal member, wherein each minor burl has a distal end surface configured to support the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2018Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Niek Jacobus Johannes ROSET, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus VERMEULEN, Simon Karel RAVENSBERGEN, Mark Constant Johannes BAGGEN, Gijs KRAMER, Roger Anton Marie TIMMERMANS, Frank Pieter Albert VAN DEN BERKMORTEL
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Publication number: 20200285154Abstract: An extraction body for a support apparatus of a lithographic apparatus. The support apparatus is configured to support an object. The extraction body is formed with an opening at a surface thereof. The opening extends within the extraction body forming a first passageway. The first passageway is configured to fluidly communicate an extraction channel in the extraction body to liquid between the surface and the object. A first pressure in the extraction channel is less than ambient pressure. At least a part of the first passageway is sized and dimensioned such that when the liquid enters the first passageway via the opening, a second pressure in the first passageway associated with surface tension of the liquid is lower than the first pressure such that at least a portion of the liquid is retained in the first passageway.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Gijs KRAMER, Martijn HOUBEN, Nicholas Peter WATERSON, Thibault Simon Mathieu LAURENT, Yuri Johannes Gabriël VAN DE VIJVER, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus VERMEULEN, Simon Karel RAVENSBERGEN, Vincentius Fransiscus CLOOSTERMAN, Siegfried Alexander TROMP, Coen Hubertus Matheus Matheus BALTIS, Justin Johannes Hermanus GERRITZEN, Niek Jacobus Johannes ROSET
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Patent number: 10705426Abstract: An extraction body for a support apparatus of a lithographic apparatus. The support apparatus is configured to support an object. The extraction body is formed with an opening at a surface thereof. The opening extends within the extraction body forming a first passageway. The first passageway is configured to fluidly communicate an extraction channel in the extraction body to liquid between the surface and the object. A first pressure in the extraction channel is less than ambient pressure. At least a part of the first passageway is sized and dimensioned such that when the liquid enters the first passageway via the opening, a second pressure in the first passageway associated with surface tension of the liquid is lower than the first pressure such that at least a portion of the liquid is retained in the first passageway.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Gijs Kramer, Martijn Houben, Nicholas Peter Waterson, Thibault Simon Mathieu Laurent, Yuri Johannes Gabriël Van De Vijver, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus Vermeulen, Simon Karel Ravensbergen, Vincentius Fransiscus Cloosterman, Siegfried Alexander Tromp, Coen Hubertus Matheus Baltis, Justin Johannes Hermanus Gerritzen, Niek Jacobus Johannes Roset
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Patent number: 10649349Abstract: A new way of drying and/or wetting a surface, such as a top surface of a substrate, is disclosed which is useful in immersion lithography. The surface is placed under a single phase extractor and a priming liquid is delivered between the single phase extractor and the surface. The single phase extractor is only activated after the priming liquid has been provided between the single phase extractor and the surface. Priming liquid is delivered to the single phase extractor during the whole of the drying and/or wetting process.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignees: ASML HOLDING N.V., ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Martinus Hendrikus Antonius Leenders, Sjoerd Nicolaas Lambertus Donders, Harry Sewell, Louis John Markoya, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus Vermeulen, Diane Elaine Markoya
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Publication number: 20190163066Abstract: An extraction body for a support apparatus of a lithographic apparatus. The support apparatus is configured to support an object. The extraction body is formed with an opening at a surface thereof. The opening extends within the extraction body forming a first passageway. The first passageway is configured to fluidly communicate an extraction channel in the extraction body to liquid between the surface and the object. A first pressure in the extraction channel is less than ambient pressure. At least a part of the first passageway is sized and dimensioned such that when the liquid enters the first passageway via the opening, a second pressure in the first passageway associated with surface tension of the liquid is lower than the first pressure such that at least a portion of the liquid is retained in the first passageway.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2017Publication date: May 30, 2019Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Gijs KRAMER, Martijn HOUBEN, Nicholas Peter WATERSON, Thibault Simon Mathieu LAURENT, Yuri Johannes Gabriël VAN DE VIJVER, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus VERMEULEN, Simon Karel RAVENSBERGEN, Vincentius Fransiscus CLOOSTERMAN, Siegfried Alexander TROMP, Coen Hubertus Matheus BALTIS, Justin Johannes Hermanus GERRITZEN, Niek Jacobus Johannes ROSET
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Publication number: 20190121247Abstract: A new way of drying and/or wetting a surface, such as a top surface of a substrate, is disclosed which is useful in immersion lithography. The surface is placed under a single phase extractor and a priming liquid is delivered between the single phase extractor and the surface. The single phase extractor is only activated after the priming liquid has been provided between the single phase extractor and the surface. Priming liquid is delivered to the single phase extractor during the whole of the drying and/or wetting process.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicants: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V., ASML HOLDING N.V.Inventors: Martinus Hendrikus Antonius LEENDERS, Sjoerd Nicolaas Lambertus DONDERS, Harry SEWELL, Louis John MARKOYA, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus VERMEULEN, Diane Elaine MARIKOYA
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Patent number: 10185231Abstract: A new way of drying and/or wetting a surface, such as a top surface of a substrate, is disclosed which is useful in immersion lithography. The surface is placed under a single phase extractor and a priming liquid is delivered between the single phase extractor and the surface. The single phase extractor is only activated after the priming liquid has been provided between the single phase extractor and the surface. Priming liquid is delivered to the single phase extractor during the whole of the drying and/or wetting process.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignees: ASML HOLDING N.V., ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Martinus Hendrikus Antonius Leenders, Sjoerd Nicolaas Lambertus Donders, Harry Sewell, Louis John Markoya, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus Vermeulen, Diane Elaine Markoya
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Publication number: 20170227856Abstract: A new way of drying and/or wetting a surface, such as a top surface of a substrate, is disclosed which is useful in immersion lithography. The surface is placed under a single phase extractor and a priming liquid is delivered between the single phase extractor and the surface. The single phase extractor is only activated after the priming liquid has been provided between the single phase extractor and the surface. Priming liquid is delivered to the single phase extractor during the whole of the drying and/or wetting process.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicants: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V., ASML HOLDING N.V.Inventors: Martinus Hendrikus Antonius LEENDERS, Sjoerd Nicolaas Lambertus DONDERS, Harry SEWELL, Louis John MARKOYA, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus VERMEULEN, Diane Czop McCAFFERTY
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Patent number: 9632425Abstract: A new way of drying and/or wetting a surface, such as a top surface of a substrate, which is useful in immersion lithography. The surface is placed under a single phase extractor and a priming liquid is delivered between the single phase extractor and the surface. The single phase extractor is only activated after the priming liquid has been provided between the single phase extractor and the surface. Priming liquid is delivered to the single phase extractor during the whole of the drying and/or wetting process.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2007Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignees: ASML HOLDING N.V., ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Martinus Hendrikus Antonius Leenders, Sjoerd Nicolaas Lambertus Donders, Harry Sewell, Louis John Markoya, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus Vermeulen, Diane Czop McCafferty
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Patent number: 9213246Abstract: An immersion lithographic apparatus typically includes a fluid handling system. The fluid handling system generally has a two-phase fluid extraction system configured to remove a mixture of gas and liquid from a given location. Because the extraction fluid comprises two phases, the pressure in the extraction system can vary. This pressure variation can be passed through the immersion liquid and cause inaccuracy in the exposure. To reduce the pressure fluctuation in the extraction system, a buffer chamber may be used. This buffer chamber may be connected to the fluid extraction system in order to provide a volume of gas which reduces pressure fluctuation. Alternatively or additionally, a flexible wall may be provided somewhere in the fluid extraction system. The flexible wall may change shape in response to a pressure change in the fluid extraction system. By changing shape, the flexible wall can help to reduce, or eliminate, the pressure fluctuation.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Nicolaas Rudolf Kemper, Robertus Nicodemus Jacobus Van Ballegoij, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus Vermeulen, Michel Riepen, Martinus Wilhelmus Van Den Heuvel, Paul Petrus Joannes Berkvens, Christophe De Metsenaere, Jimmy Matheus Wilhelmus Van De Winkel, Cornelius Maria Rops
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Patent number: 9052612Abstract: A support structure for supporting an exchangeable object in a lithographic exposure apparatus includes a first support structure part and a second support structure part, the first support structure part being arranged to support the object, and the second support structure part being arranged to, at least in part, support the first support structure part. At least one of the first support structure part and the second support structure part has an open-box structure. The first support structure part and the second support structure part are configured to be attached to one another in such a way that the first support structure part and the second support structure together form a closed-box structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2009Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus Vermeulen, Johannes Henricus Wilhelmus Jacobs, Joost Jeroen Ottens
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Patent number: 9052613Abstract: A displacement device with a first and second part which are displaceable relative to one another, the first part being provided with a system of magnets, the second part being provided with a set of coil block units including: at least three first coil block units having current conductors oriented parallel to a second direction, at least two second coil block units having current conductors oriented parallel to a first direction, wherein the displacement device includes a controller configured to control the position of the second part relative to the first part, and wherein when the second part mainly moves in the second direction the controller is configured to levitate the second part from the first part in the third direction by using first coil block units only.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2011Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Johannes Hubertus Antonius Van de Rijdt, Joost Jeroen Ottens, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus Vermeulen, Erik Johannes Antonius Manders
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Publication number: 20140300879Abstract: An immersion lithographic apparatus typically includes a fluid handling system. The fluid handling system generally has a two-phase fluid extraction system configured to remove a mixture of gas and liquid from a given location. Because the extraction fluid comprises two phases, the pressure in the extraction system can vary. This pressure variation can be passed through the immersion liquid and cause inaccuracy in the exposure. To reduce the pressure fluctuation in the extraction system, a buffer chamber may be used. This buffer chamber may be connected to the fluid extraction system in order to provide a volume of gas which reduces pressure fluctuation. Alternatively or additionally, a flexible wall may be provided somewhere in the fluid extraction system. The flexible wall may change shape in response to a pressure change in the fluid extraction system. By changing shape, the flexible wall can help to reduce, or eliminate, the pressure fluctuation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Nicolaas Rudolf KEMPER, Robertus Nicodemus Jacobus Van Ballegoij, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus Vermeulen, Michel Riepen, Martinus Wilhelmus Van Den Heuvel, Paul Petrus Joannes Berkvens, Christophe De Metsenaere, Jimmy Matheus Wilhelmus Van De Winkel, Cornelius Maria Rops
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Patent number: 8781775Abstract: A lithographic apparatus includes a stage to hold an object, the stage being moveable relative to a reference structure in a motion range; a magnet structure to provide a spatially varying magnetic field in at least a part of the motion range, the magnet structure being moveable relative to the reference structure and the stage; a first position measurement system to provide a first measurement signal corresponding to a position of the stage and/or the object in a measurement direction relative to the reference structure; a second position measurement system to provide a second measurement signal corresponding to a position of the stage relative to the magnet structure; and a data processor to correct the first measurement signal with a value dependent on the second measurement signal to provide a corrected first measurement signal representative of the position of the stage and/or the object relative to the reference structure in the measurement direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Hans Butler, Emiel Jozef Melanie Eussen, Willem Herman Gertruda Anna Koenen, Engelbertus Antonius Fransiscus Van Der Pasch, Harmen Klaas Van Der Schoot, Marc Wilhelmus Maria Van Der Wijst, Marcus Martinus Petrus Adrianus Vermeulen, Cornelius Adrianus Lambertus De Hoon