Abstract：A laser-produced plasma (LPP) source with liquid aerosol spray target and nanosecond laser was developed, based on both soft X-ray radiation metrology and extreme ultraviolet projection lithography (EUVL). The LPP source is composed of a stainless steel solenoid valve whose temperature can be continuously controlled, a Nd∶YAG laser with pulse width, working wavelength and pulse energy being 7 ns, 1.064 μm and 1J respectively, and a pulse generator which can synchronously control the valve and the laser. A standard General Valve Corporation series 99 stainless steel solenoid valve with copper gasket seals and a Kel-F poppet are used in order to minimize leakage and poppet deformation during high-pressure cryogenic operation. A close fitting copper cooling jacket surrounds the valve body. The jacket clamps a copper coolant carrying tube 3 mm in diameter, which is fed by an automatically pressurized liquid nitrogen-filled dewar. The valve temperature can be controlled between 77 and 473 K. For sufficiently high backing pressure and low temperature, the valve reservoir gas can undergo a gas-to-liquid phase transition. Upon valve pulsing, the liquid is ejected into a vacuum and breaks up into droplets, which is called liquid aerosol spray target. For the above-mentioned LPP source, firstly, by the use of Cowan program on the basis of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, the authors computed the radiative transition wavelengths and probabilities in soft X-ray region for O4+, O5+, O6+, O7+, F5+, F6+ and F7+ ions which were correspondingly produced from the interaction of the 1011-1012 W·cm-2 power laser with liquid O2,CO2 and CF4 aerosol spray targets. Secondly, the authors measured the spectra of liquid O2,CO2 and CF4 aerosol spray target LPP sources in the 6-20 nm band for the 8×1011 W·cm-2 laser irradiance. The measured results were compared with the Cowan calculated results ones, and the radiative transition wavelength and probability for the measured spectral lines were obtained.
尼启良,陈波. CO2,O2,CF4液体微滴喷射靶激光等离子体光源光谱 [J]. 光谱学与光谱分析, 2008, 28(11): 2465-2468.
NI Qi-liang, CHEN Bo. The Spectra of a Laser-Produced Plasma Source with CO2,O2 and CF4 Liquid Aerosol Spray Target. SPECTROSCOPY AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS, 2008, 28(11): 2465-2468.
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