Patents by Inventor Peter Deufel
Peter Deufel 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: 11003088Abstract: The disclosure relates to a microlithography projection exposure system having optical corrective elements configured to modify the imaging characteristics, as well as related systems and component.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbHInventors: Franz Sorg, Peter Deufel, Toralf Gruner
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Publication number: 20200233314Abstract: The disclosure relates to a microlithography projection exposure system having optical corrective elements configured to modify the imaging characteristics, as well as related systems and component.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Franz Sorg, Peter Deufel, Toralf Gruner
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Patent number: 10620543Abstract: The disclosure relates to a microlithography projection exposure system having optical corrective elements configured to modify the imaging characteristics, as well as related systems and component.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbHInventors: Franz Sorg, Peter Deufel, Toralf Gruner
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Patent number: 10571813Abstract: A connection arrangement is provided for a force-fit connecting ceramic components for a lithography apparatus. The connection arrangement includes first and a second ceramic components and a clamping device. The clamping device directly clamps the first and the second ceramic component against one another in a force-fit manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbHInventors: Karsten Siegmanski, Peter Deufel, Viktor Kulitzki, Stefan Xalter, Bernhard Gellrich
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Publication number: 20190302627Abstract: The disclosure relates to a microlithography projection exposure system having optical corrective elements configured to modify the imaging characteristics, as well as related systems and component.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: Franz Sorg, Peter Deufel, Toralf Gruner
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Patent number: 10108094Abstract: A semiconductor lithography projection exposure apparatus includes a projection lens which includes a manipulator. The manipulator includes an optical element; a base frame; a sensor frame arranged on the base frame; and a sensor arranged on the sensor frame. The manipulator is configured to correct wavefront aberrations of used optical radiation that pass through the optical element during the operation of the projection lens. The manipulator is arranged directly after an object plane of the apparatus along a path of the used optical radiation. The sensor is configured to measure a deformation or a deflection of the optical element. A coefficient of thermal expansion of the sensor frame is within 16 ppm/K of a coefficient of thermal expansion of the base frame.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbHInventors: Peter Deufel, Johannes Lippert, Pascal Marsollek, Jasper Wesselingh, Yim-Bun Patrick Kwan
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Publication number: 20170184982Abstract: A connection arrangement is provided for a force-fit connecting ceramic components for a lithography apparatus. The connection arrangement includes first and a second ceramic components and a clamping device. The clamping device directly clamps the first and the second ceramic component against one another in a force-fit manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2017Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Karsten Siegmanski, Peter Deufel, Viktor Kulitzki, Stefan Xalter, Bernhard Gellrich
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Publication number: 20170052453Abstract: A semiconductor lithography projection exposure apparatus includes a projection lens which includes a manipulator. The manipulator includes an optical element; a base frame; a sensor frame arranged on the base frame; and a sensor arranged on the sensor frame. The manipulator is configured to correct wavefront aberrations of used optical radiation that pass through the optical element during the operation of the projection lens. The manipulator is arranged directly after an object plane of the apparatus along a path of the used optical radiation. The sensor is configured to measure a deformation or a deflection of the optical element. A coefficient of thermal expansion of the sensor frame is within 16 ppm/K of a coefficient of thermal expansion of the base frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2016Publication date: February 23, 2017Inventors: Peter Deufel, Johannes Lippert, Pascal Marsollek, Jasper Wesselingh, Yim-Bun Patrick Kwan
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Patent number: 9551944Abstract: A method and a device for replacing objective parts, especially of a projection or illumination objective for microlithography in which an objective having an objective interior and objective parts provided therein is provided. At least one objective part is replaceably accommodated in the objective. Immediately prior to installation in the objective, the replaceable objective part is cleaned outside the objective interior in at least one cleaning room sealed off from the ambient atmosphere. Immediately after cleaning, the replaceable objective is installed in the objective without contact with the normal ambient atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2014Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbHInventors: Bernhard Geuppert, Guido Limbach, Harald Woelfle, Peter Deufel
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Patent number: 9298111Abstract: An optical arrangement includes a multiplicity of optical elements and a carrier structure which carries the optical elements. The carrier structure is composed of at least two releasably interconnected modules. Each module is composed of at least one carrier structure subelement. A subhousing is produced by a multiplicity of carrier structure subelements and/or modules. The subhousing has a geometry that varies, at least in regions, in correspondence to a usable beam path in the projection exposure apparatus, the usable beam path being defined as an envelope of all light bundles which can propagate from all field points in a field plane to an image plane of the projection exposure apparatus. A projection exposure apparatus for EUV lithography includes such an optical arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbHInventors: Viktor Kulitzki, Bernhard Gellrich, Stefan Xalter, Yim-Bun Patrick Kwan, Peter Deufel, Andreas Wurmbrand
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Publication number: 20160026094Abstract: The disclosure relates to a microlithography projection exposure system having optical corrective elements configured to modify the imaging characteristics, as well as related systems and component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: Franz Sorg, Peter Deufel, Toralf Gruner
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Publication number: 20140359990Abstract: A method and a device for replacing objective parts, especially of a projection or illumination objective for microlithography in which an objective having an objective interior and objective parts provided therein is provided. At least one objective part is replaceably accommodated in the objective. Immediately prior to installation in the objective, the replaceable objective part is cleaned outside the objective interior in at least one cleaning room sealed off from the ambient atmosphere. Immediately after cleaning, the replaceable objective is installed in the objective without contact with the normal ambient atmosphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Bernhard Geuppert, Guido Limbach, Harald Woelfle, Peter Deufel
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Publication number: 20120188523Abstract: An optical arrangement includes a multiplicity of optical elements and a carrier structure which carries the optical elements. The carrier structure is composed of at least two releasably interconnected modules. Each module is composed of at least one carrier structure subelement. A subhousing is produced by a multiplicity of carrier structure subelements and/or modules. The subhousing has a geometry that varies, at least in regions, in correspondence to a usable beam path in the projection exposure apparatus, the usable beam path being defined as an envelope of all light bundles which can propagate from all field points in a field plane to an image plane of the projection exposure apparatus. A projection exposure apparatus for EUV lithography includes such an optical arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: CARL ZEISS SMT GMBHInventors: Viktor Kulitsky, Bernhard Gellrich, Stefan Xalter, Yim-Bun Patrick Kwan, Peter Deufel, Andreas Wurmbrand
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Publication number: 20120176591Abstract: The disclosure relates to a microlithography projection exposure system having optical corrective elements configured to modify the imaging characteristics, as well as related systems and component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2012Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbHInventors: Franz Sorg, Peter Deufel, Toralf Gruner
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Patent number: 8159648Abstract: The disclosure relates to a microlithography projection exposure system having optical corrective elements configured to modify the imaging characteristics, as well as related systems and components.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2008Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbHInventors: Franz Sorg, Peter Deufel, Toralf Gruner
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Patent number: 8018664Abstract: A housing structure has a frame structure 1 on which there are arranged via connecting elements 7 several optical elements 5 which are held in mounts 6 or structural modules 6?. The optical elements 5 are detachably connected to the frame structure 1 with their mounts 6 or structural modules 6? and connecting elements 7 in such a way that in the installed state they are integrated as bearing units in the frame structure 1.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2004Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbHInventors: Stefan Xalter, Peter Deufel, Yim Bun Patrick Kwan, Bernard Stommen, Herman Soemers, Franz Van Deuren, Paul Peter Anne Brom
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Publication number: 20110216428Abstract: A housing structure has a frame structure 1 on which there are arranged via connecting elements 7 several optical elements 5 which are held in mounts 6 or structural modules 6?. The optical elements 5 are detachably connected to the frame structure 1 with their mounts 6 or structural modules 6? and connecting elements 7 in such a way that in the installed state they are integrated as bearing units in the frame structure 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: CARL ZEISS SMT GMBHInventors: Stefan Xalter, Peter Deufel, Yim Bun Patrick Kwan, Bernard Stommen, Herman Soemers, Franz Van Deuren, Paul Peter Anne Brom
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Patent number: 7986472Abstract: There is provided an optical element module comprising a first optical element and an optical element holder. The first optical element has a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The optical element holder holds the first optical element and has a second coefficient of thermal expansion, the second coefficient of thermal expansion being adapted to the first coefficient of thermal expansion. The optical element is directly contacting the optical element holder in a wide contact area. The contact area is defined by a first contact surface of the first optical element and a second contact surface of the optical element holder, wherein the second contact surface matches the first contact surface. Thus, favorable rigidity and deformation behavior is provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT, AG.Inventors: Jens Kugler, Ulrich Weber, Bernhard Gellrich, Yim-Bun Patrick Kwan, Peter Deufel
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Patent number: 7724351Abstract: A lithographic apparatus has an assembly to exchange optical elements in a pupil plane of its projection system. The optical elements may be pupil filters and may conform to the physical dimensions specified for a reticle standard, e.g. having sides substantially equal to 5, 6 or 9 inches.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2006Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignees: ASML Netherlands B.V., Carl Zeiss SMT AGInventors: Erik Roelof Loopstra, Adrianus Franciscus Petrus Engelen, Bernardus Antonius Johannes Luttikhuis, Maria Johanna Agnes Rubingh, Johannes Martinus Andreas Hazenberg, Laurentius Catrinus Jorritsma, Johannes Wilhelmus De Klerk, Bernhard Geuppert, Aart Adrianus Van Beuzekom, Petrus Franciscus Wilhelmus Maria Mandigers, Franz Sorg, Peter Deufel, Peter Schaap
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Publication number: 20090303626Abstract: A housing structure has a frame structure 1 on which there are arranged via connecting elements 7 several optical elements 5 which are held in mounts 6 or structural modules 6?. The optical elements 5 are detachably connected to the frame structure 1 with their mounts 6 or structural modules 6? and connecting elements 7 in such a way that in the installed state they are integrated as bearing units in the frame structure 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2004Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: CARL ZEISS SMT AGInventors: Stefan Xalter, Peter Deufel, Yim-Bun Patrick Kwan, Bernard Stommen, Herman Soemers, Franz van Deuren, Paul Peter Anne Brom