Patent 11187989 was granted and assigned to Carl Zeiss SMT on November, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The disclosure provides a method for determining at least one property of an EUV source in a projection exposure apparatus for semiconductor lithography, wherein the property is determined on the basis of the electromagnetic radiation emanating from the EUV source, and wherein a thermal load for a component of the projection exposure apparatus is determined and the property is deduced on the basis of the thermal load determined.