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X-ray generating apparatus

US4631743A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 24, 1984
Grant dateDec 23, 1986
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Expiry dateSep 24, 2004

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH05H7/00
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An X-ray generating apparatus provided with at least one deflecting means disposed between a freely selected pair of adjacent deflecting electromagnets and adapted to undulate electrons around a design orbit. When the deflecting means if formed of variable horizontally or vertically deflecting electromagnets capable of forming a variable magnetic field for electron on the orbit, the electrons are undulated around the design orbit and synchrotron radiation or powerful wiggler radiation from a wiggler is generated to irradiate a large area of a given substrate. Thus, in the transfer of patterns for the production of LSI devices for example, the X-ray generating apparatus enables highly intensive X-rays abundantly containing soft X-rays to be emitted uniformly to irradiate a wide area.

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