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UTA versus line emission for EUVL: studies on xenon emission at the NIST EBIT

K Fahy1, P Dunne1, L McKinney1, G O'Sullivan1, E Sokell1, J White1, A Aguilar2, J M Pomeroy2, J N Tan2, B Blagojević2, E-O LeBigot3 and J D Gillaspy2

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Spectra from xenon ions have been recorded at the NIST electron beam ion trap (EBIT) and the emission into a 2% bandwidth at 13.5 nm arising from 4d → 5p transitions compared with those from 4d → 4f and 4p → 4d transitions in Xe XI and also with that obtained from the unresolved transition array (UTA) observed to peak just below 11 nm. It was found that an improvement of a factor of 5 could be gained in photon yield using the UTA rather than the 4d → 5p emission. The results are compared with atomic structure calculations and imply that a significant gain in efficiency should be obtained using tin, in which the emission at 13.5 nm comes from a similar UTA, rather than xenon, as an EUVL source material.


PACS

32.30.Jc Visible and ultraviolet spectra

37.20.+j Atomic and molecular beam sources and techniques

32.70.Cs Oscillator strengths, lifetimes, transition moments

32.70.Jz Line shapes, widths, and shifts

Subjects

Atomic and molecular physics

Dates

Issue 23 (7 December 2004)

Received 3 July 2004, in final form 8 September 2004

Published 19 November 2004



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