title: Sub-70 nm resolution tabletop microscopy at 13.8 nm using a compact laser-plasma EUV source.
abstract: We report the first (to our knowledge) demonstration of a tabletop, extreme UV (EUV) transmission microscope at 13.8 nm wavelength with a spatial (half-pitch) resolution of 69 nm. In the experiment, a compact laser-plasma EUV source based on a gas puff target is applied to illuminate an object. A multilayer ellipsoidal mirror is used to focus quasi-monochromatic EUV radiation onto the object, while a Fresnel zone plate objective forms the image. The experiment and the spatial resolution measurements, based on a knife-edge test, are described. The results might be useful for the realization of a compact high-resolution tabletop imaging systems for actinic defect characterization.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Optoelectronics, Military University of Technology, 2 Kaliskiego Street, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland. wachulak@gmail.com
authors.forename: Przemyslaw W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Wachulak
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bartnik
authors.forename: Henryk
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fiedorowicz