Patents by Inventor Maria Peter
Maria Peter 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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Patent number: 10228615Abstract: A membrane transmissive to EUV radiation, which may be used as a pellicle or spectral filter in a lithographic apparatus. The membrane includes one or more high doped regions wherein the membrane is doped with a dopant concentration greater than 1017 cm?3, and one or more regions with low (or no) doping. The membrane may have a main substrate having low doping and one or more additional layers, wherein the high doped regions are comprised within some or all of the additional layers.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Andrey Alexandrovich Nikipelov, Vadim Yevgenyevich Banine, Jozef Petrus Henricus Benschop, Arjen Boogaard, Florian Didier Albin Dhalluin, Alexey Sergeevich Kuznetsov, Mária Péter, Luigi Scaccabarozzi, Willem Joan Van Der Zande, Pieter-Jan Van Zwol, Andrei Mikhailovich Yakunin
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Publication number: 20190056654Abstract: Methods of manufacturing a pellicle for a lithographic apparatus including a method involving depositing at least one graphene layer on a planar surface of a substrate. The substrate has a first substrate portion and a second substrate portion. The method further includes removing the first substrate portion to form a freestanding membrane from the at least one graphene layer. The freestanding membrane is supported by the second substrate portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2016Publication date: February 21, 2019Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Mária PÉTER, Erik Achilles ABEGG, Adrianus Johannes Maria GIESBERS, Johan Hendrik KLOOTWIJK, Maxim Aleksandrovich NASALEVICH, Wilhelmus Theodorus Anthonius Johannes VAN DEN EINDEN, Willem Joan VAN DER ZANDE, Pieter-Jan VAN ZWOL, Johannes Petrus Martinus Bernardus VERMEULEN, David Ferdinand VLES, Willem-Pieter VOORTHUIJZEN
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Publication number: 20190011828Abstract: A membrane for EUV lithography, the membrane having a thickness of no more than 200 nm and including a stack having: at least one silicon layer; and at least one silicon compound layer made of a compound of silicon and an element selected from the group consisting of boron, phosphorous, bromine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Pieter-Jan VAN ZWOL, Dennis DE GRAAF, Paul JANSSEN, Mária PÉTER, Marcus Adrianus VAN DE KERKHOF, Willem Joan VAN DER ZANDE, David Ferdinand VLES, Willem-Pieter VOORTHUIJZEN
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Publication number: 20180373141Abstract: A membrane assembly for EUV lithography, the membrane assembly including: a planar membrane; a border configured to hold the membrane; and a frame assembly connected to the border and configured to attach to a patterning device for EUV lithography, wherein the frame assembly is connected to the border in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the membrane such that in use the frame assembly is between the border and the patterning device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: December 27, 2018Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Derk Servatius Gertruda BROUNS, Paul JANSSEN, Mohammad Reza KAMALI, Maria PETER, Willem Joan VAN DER ZANDE, Pieter-Jan VAN ZWOL, David Ferdinand VLES, Willem-Pieter VOORTHUIJZEN
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Publication number: 20180364561Abstract: A pellicle suitable for use with a patterning device for a lithographic apparatus. The pellicle includes at least one breakage region which is configured to preferentially break, during normal use in a lithographic apparatus, prior to breakage of remaining regions of the pellicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicants: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V., ASML HOLDING N.V.Inventors: David Ferdinand VLES, Erik Achilles ABEGG, Aage BENDIKSEN, Derk Servatius Gertruda BROUNS, Pradeep K. GOVIL, Paul JANSSEN, Maxim Aleksandrovich NASALEVICH, Arnoud Willem NOTENBOOM, Mária PÉTER, Marcus Adrianus VAN DE KERKHOF, Willem Joan VAN DER ZANDE, Pieter-Jan VAN ZWOL, Johannes Petrus Martinus Bernardus VERMEULEN, Willem-Pieter VOORTHUIJZEN, James Norman WILEY
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Publication number: 20180239240Abstract: A method for manufacturing a membrane assembly for EUV lithography, the method comprising: providing a stack comprising a planar substrate and at least one membrane layer, wherein the planar substrate comprises an inner region and a border region around the inner region; positioning the stack on a support such that the inner region of the planar substrate is exposed; and selectively removing the inner region of the planar substrate using a non-liquid etchant, such that the membrane assembly comprises: a membrane formed from the at least one membrane layer; and a border holding the membrane, the border formed from the border region of the planar substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventors: Zomer Silvester HOUWELING, Eric Willem Felix CASIMIRI, Tamara DRUZHININA, JANSSEN Paul, Michael Alfred Josephus KUIJKEN, Martinus Hendrikus Antonius LEENDERS, Sicco OOSTERHOFF, Mária PÉTER, Willem Joan VAN DER ZANDE, Pieter-Jan VAN ZWOL, Beatrijs Louise Marie-Joseph Katrie VERBRUGGE, Johannes Petrus Martinus Bernardus VERMEULEN, David Ferdinand VLES, Willem-Pieter VOORTHUIJZEN
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Publication number: 20170205704Abstract: A membrane transmissive to EUV radiation, which may be used as a pellicle or spectral filter in a lithographic apparatus. The membrane includes one or more high doped regions wherein the membrane is doped with a dopant concentration greater than 1017 cm?3, and one or more regions with low (or no) doping. The membrane may have a main substrate having low doping and one or more additional layers, wherein the high doped regions are comprised within some or all of the additional layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2015Publication date: July 20, 2017Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Andrey Alexandrovich NIKIPELOV, Vadim Yevgenyevich BANINE, Jozef Petrus Henricus BENSCHOP, Arjen BOOGAARD, Florian Didier Albin DHALLUIN, Alexey Sergeevich KUZNETSOV, Mária PÉTER, Luigi SCACCABAROZZI, Willem Joan VAN DER ZANDE, Pieter-Jan VAN ZWOL, Andrei Mikhailovich YAKUNIN
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Patent number: 9383195Abstract: A method of obtaining information indicative of the topography of a surface of a flexible substrate, the method including directing a beam of radiation at the surface of the flexible substrate; and detecting changes in intensity distribution, or angle of reflection, of the beam of radiation after the beam of radiation has been reflected from the surface of the substrate to obtain information indicative of the topography of the surface of the flexible substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2008Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Wilhelmus Johannes Maria De Laat, Cheng-Qun Gui, Peter Theodorus Maria Giesen, Marcus Theodoor Wilhelmus Van Der Heijden, Erwin Rinaldo Meinders, Mária Péter
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Publication number: 20160141357Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of making the same. The device includes a semiconductor substrate including a body region having a first conductivity type. The device also includes an array of interconnected trenches extending into the body region from a surface of the substrate. The device further includes a plurality of channel stoppers. Each channel stopper includes a doped region of the first conductivity type located at a side of one or more of the trenches at a position intermediate a top of the trench and a bottom of the trench.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2015Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Petrus Hubertus Cornelis Magnee, Wilhelmus Cornelis Maria Peters
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Patent number: 9065016Abstract: A method for manufacturing a thermoelectric generator includes the steps of replicating a structure into a flexible substrate for providing a set of cavities; providing an initiator in the cavities for growing respective piles of thermoelectric materials; growing the respective piles of thermoelectric materials from said initiator; and providing electrical connection between the respective piles of thermoelectric materials for forming thermocouples of the thermoelectric generator.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2009Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNOInventors: Maria Peter, Erwin Rinaldo Meinders, Ruud Vullers
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Patent number: 9000303Abstract: The invention provides a method for preparing a pattern for an electric circuit comprising the steps of: (a) providing a substrate; (b) providing a pattern of an inhibiting material for an electrical circuit onto said substrate by i) applying a layer of the inhibiting material onto said substrate and mechanically removing locally the layer of the inhibiting material to obtain said pattern; or ii) applying a layer of the inhibiting material onto said substrate, wherein said layer has pre-determined pattern which incompletely covers said substrate; (c) establishing a distribution of particles of a first metal or alloy thereof on the layer of the inhibiting material and the pattern as obtained in step.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2008Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Roland Anthony Tacken, Renatus Marius De Zwart, Erwin Rinaldo Meinders, Maria Peter
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Patent number: 8895438Abstract: The invention relates to a method 10 for forming a multi-level surface on a substrate 2, wherein said surface comprises areas of different wettability, the method comprising the step (A, B) of applying a multi-level stamp to the substrate for forming the multi-level surface, said multi-level stamp having different structural regions 1a arranged along the multi-level surface for locally altering wettability properties of at least a portion of a level of the multi-level surface 2a, 2b. The invention further relates to a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2009Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast—natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Maria Peter, Erwin Rinaldo Meinders
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Patent number: 8729652Abstract: The invention provides a semiconductor device (11) for radiation detection, which comprises a substrate region (1) of a substrate semiconductor material, such as silicon, and a detection region (3) at a surface of the semiconductor device (11), in which detection region (3) charge carriers of a first conductivity type, such as electrons, are generated and detected upon incidence of electromagnetic radiation (L) on the semiconductor device (11). The semiconductor device (11) further comprises a barrier region (2,5,14) of a barrier semiconductor material or an isolation material, which barrier region (2,5,14) is an obstacle between the substrate region (1) and the detection region (3) for charge carriers that are generated in the substrate region (1) by penetration of ionizing radiation (X), such as X-rays, into the substrate region (1).Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2007Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: TrixellInventors: Anco Heringa, Erik Jan Lous, Wibo Daniel Van Noort, Wilhelmus Cornelis Maria Peters, Joost Willem Christiaan Veltkamp
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Publication number: 20140012114Abstract: This application describes methods and apparatus for monitoring of fluid content that are suitable for in-situ, real time and/or continuous monitoring, especially of bodily fluids and in particular the content of sweat. The application also describes fabrication of such an apparatus. The apparatus comprises a multilayer structure comprising at least two electrode layers for detection of fluid content separated by at least one insulating layer. The multilayer structure defines at least one flow channel which provides a flow path for continuous flow of fluid in use, and the electrode layers form part of the sidewall of the flow channel(s). The flow channel(s) may run in a direction substantially perpendicular to the layers. The electrode layers may employ electrochemical detection and may comprise a reference electrode and an ion-sensitive electrode. The apparatus may be fabricated using various printing or deposition techniques.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Inventors: Marcel Zevenbergen, Lindsay Brown, Maria Peter, Mercedes Crego Calama
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Patent number: 8570491Abstract: According to one aspect, the invention provides a table for compensating deformation in flexible foils (1) The table comprises a supportive base (2) and a deformation compensation system (3). This system comprises a plurality of movable elements (4), supported by the base (2), wherein the movable elements form a surface for supporting the flexible foil. The movable elements comprise clamps (6) for clamping the foil (5). The movable elements (4) are individually movable parallel to the surface for supporting the foil, so as to stretch the clamped foil into a predefined shape. The table for compensating deformation in flexible foils may be used in a manufacturing process of flexible functional foils to compensate deformation of the foils during sequential patterning.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Erwin Rinaldo Meinders, Maria Peter, Peter Theodorus Maria Giesen, Wilhelmus Johannes Maria de Laat
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Patent number: 8364935Abstract: A data processing apparatus has an instruction memory system arranged to output an instruction word addressed by an instruction address. An instruction execution unit, processes a plurality of instructions from the instruction word in parallel. A detection unit, detects in which of a plurality of ranges the instruction address lies. The detection unit is coupled to the instruction execution unit and/or the instruction memory system, to control a way in which the instruction execution unit parallelizes processing of the instructions from the instruction word, dependent on a detected range. In an embodiment the instruction execution unit and/or the instruction memory system adjusts a width of the instruction word that determines a number of instructions from the instruction word that is processed in parallel, dependent on the detected range.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2003Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Nytell Software LLCInventors: Ramanathan Sethuraman, Balakrishnan Srinivasan, Carlos Antonio Alba Pinto, Harm Johannes Antonius Maria Peters, Rafael Peset Llopis
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Patent number: 8360568Abstract: In a method for printing on a substrate, in particular a textile substrate, with the aid of an inkjet printing device, a print image to be printed is constructed by drop-by-drop deposition of one or more ink fluids in picture elements which together form the print image, an ink fluid comprising at least one predetermined concentration of at least one dye in a main solvent. The method includes for this purpose the following steps: (a) the determination of the color value of a picture element from the print image, (b) the determination of one or more dye-comprising ink fluids, in dependence on the determined color value, (c) the determination of colorless transport fluid to be applied to the picture element, in dependence on the determined color value, (d) the determination of a colorless auxiliary fluid, comprising rheology-modifying agents, in dependence on the determined color value, and (e) the application of the ink fluids, the transport fluid and the auxiliary fluid to the picture element.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2007Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Stork Digital Imaging B.V.Inventors: Jacobus Henricus Diederen, Theodorus Henricus Gerardus Maria Peters
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Publication number: 20120281192Abstract: A method of obtaining information indicative of the topography of a surface of a flexible substrate, the method including directing a beam of radiation at the surface of the flexible substrate; and detecting changes in intensity distribution, or angle of reflection, of the beam of radiation after the beam of radiation has been reflected from the surface of the substrate to obtain information indicative of the topography of the surface of the flexible substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2008Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicants: TNO, ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Wilhelmus Johannes Maria De Laat, Cheng-Qun Gui, Peter Theodorus Maria Giesen, Marcus Theodoor Wilhelmus Van Der Heijden, Erwin Rinaldo Meinders, Mária Péter
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Patent number: 8234931Abstract: An assembly comprising a fluid channel and a flowmeter, the flowmeter (1) comprising at least one vortex shedder (2) extending in the channel (C), each vortex shedder (2) being configured to generate Karman vortices (V) in fluid flowing through the channel (C) during operation, wherein each vortex shedder (2) is provided with a first fiber Bragg grating (FBG) of a fiber Bragg grating sensor (3, 7, FBG), wherein a Karman vortex frequency (fe) of the vortices (V) generated by the vortex shedder (2) is detectable utilizing a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor signal relating to the respective first fiber Bragg grating (FBG) of that vortex shedder (2).Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2007Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Lun Kai Cheng, Marinus Carolus Adrianus Maria Peters, Wouter Schiferli
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Publication number: 20110266563Abstract: The invention relates to a method 10 for forming a multi-level surface on a substrate 2, wherein said surface comprises areas of different wettability, the method comprising the step (A, B) of applying a multi-level stamp to the substrate for forming the multi-level surface, said multi-level stamp having different structural regions 1a arranged along the multi-level surface for locally altering wettability properties of at least a portion of a level of the multi-level surface 2a, 2b. The invention further relates to a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing a semi-conductor device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2009Publication date: November 3, 2011Inventors: Maria Peter, Erwin Rinaldo Meinders