Patent Number: 053717740
Section: abstract

An X-ray lithography beamline imaging system has a single condenser mirror with an aspherical reflecting surface, with symmetry only about a plane, without axial symmetry. For an X-ray beam emitted along a y axis and diverging along x and z axes, the reflecting surface is asymmetrical about the y axis and has different focusing power in directions along the x and z axes in an imaging plane orthogonal to the y axis and spaced from the mirror along the y axis such that the mirror reflects and focuses the X-ray beam to a point along the y axis in the imaging plane and to a line along the x axis in the imaging plane.. This invention was made with United States Government support awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Grant No. ECS-8921165, and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Grant No. N00014-91-J-1876. The United States Government has certain rights in this invention.