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Cleaning device, a lithographic apparatus and a lithographic apparatus cleaning method

US9013672B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 29, 2007
Grant dateApr 21, 2015
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Expiry dateMay 27, 2028

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03F7/70341
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An immersion lithographic projection apparatus having a megasonic transducer configured to clean a surface and a method of using megasonic waves through a liquid to clean a surface of an immersion lithographic projection apparatus are disclosed. A flow, desirably a radial flow, is induced in the liquid.

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