To enable cost-effective scaling of technology nodes and extend Moore’s law for at least another decade, ASML has been developing the High NA EUV platform. With an increase of the numerical aperture (NA) from 0.33NA to 0.55NA, High NA EUV will bring multiple benefits to the semiconductor market, such as reduction of process complexity, yield improvement and higher resolution. This will be done while maximizing 0.33NA(NXE) and 0.55 NA (EXE) platforms commonality, making this an evolutionary step on EUV technology.
This paper gives an overview of the progress and status of the first High NA EUV platform, the EXE:5000, through its different development and build phases.
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