Patent 10545323 was granted and assigned to Carl Zeiss SMT on January, 2020 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A projection optical unit for EUV projection lithography has a plurality of mirrors for imaging an object field into an image field with illumination light. At least one of the mirrors is an NI mirror and at least one of the mirrors is a GI mirror. A mirror dimension Dx of the at least one NI mirror in a plane of extent (xz) perpendicular to a plane of incidence (yz) satisfies the following relationship:4 LLWx/IWPVmax<Dx.