Don't you think they'll also be using a retro encabulator, with the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive directance being used to generate the EUV light?
(I've also just realized at least 10 companies have probably re-shot this internally with their own equipment. Argh.)
Wish I could upvote tenfold to further increase your customer focus on operator excellence.
You can use a big accelerator as a EUV light source. The SLAC beamline was once used to test the concept. Medium sized (160m circumference) synchrotrons have been suggested.[2] One appears to be under construction in China.
A plasma wakefield accelerator is a proposed way to shrink a powerful accelerator down to a more manageable size. Maybe. There's a project underway to use about a third of the 2-mile long SLAC beamline in this mode.
ASML made zapping a droplet of molten tin with lasers work as an EUV source. That's a nightmare. This approach may or may not be better. It involves zapping a high-pressure gas with lasers.
All the known ways to do this are insanely expensive and look more like physics experiments than production equipment.
A clean light source, where you put electricity in and get EUV out, would be easier to work with. There was talk of "table top synchrotrons" a few years back. One startup built one, although it was more like garage-sized.
[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/high-power-laser-sci...
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35228673/
[3] https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2020-10-12-slac-starts-n...
Can recommend [1] as the title say about the light source. Very interesting even for a non professional (and [2] as on high level overview of the machine and [3] as longer documentation inside ASML).
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ge2RcvDlgw "The Extreme Engineering of ASML’s EUV Light Source"
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gMdGrVteI "The Extreme Physics Pushing Moore’s Law to the Next Level"
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQu_TMgHO98 "ASML's Secret: An exclusive view from inside the global semiconductor giant"
Is this named after the town, a person, or just 'wake' and 'field'?
Please be the town. If Wakefield can get in on the plasma accelerator sexyness, there's hope for all boring northern towns.
Dewsbury fusion here we come.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_acceleration#Wakefield_...
Specifically my guess (and I'm no expert) is a plasma wakefield accelerator feeding a free electron laser to get tunable wavelength EUV light far cheaper and simpler than what they've got now. Tons of work to do to get there, but that's always been the case in thier business. Also, if they don't do it someone else might and then they'd be dead.
There are other R&D areas to be handled too. One might ask why not spend more on the R&D, but they are probably at some kind of practical limit there too.