Patent ID: 6967067

Claim:
A method for patterning a layer on a substrate with a desired projection image, the method comprising the steps of: providing a reflector surface that has been patterned to include variation in a property thereof providing information that corresponds to the desired projection image; projecting a coherent beam of electrons toward the reflector surface so that a portion of the coherent beam of electrons is reflected off the reflector surface; projecting a portion of the coherent beam of electrons to the layer without reflecting off the reflector surface; and maintaining the substrate including the layer in the path of the reflected radiation and in the path of the portion of the coherent beam of electrons projected without reflecting off the reflector surface so that the reflected portions of the coherent beam of electrons and portions of the coherent beam of electrons projected without reflecting off the reflector surface interfere to provide a holographic projection of the desired projection image and so that the holographic projection of the desired projection image is projected onto the layer to thereby pattern the layer with the desired projection image.