The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology
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This account of an EUV source follows a tin droplet through shaping pulses and conversion to plasma. Increasing useful light depends partly on the target presented to the next pulse, not simply on the power rating of the source.
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It hits one tiny tin droplet three times in a rowwhere you evaporate the pancake and turn it into a plasma.