Effective cleaning of tin contamination on the collecting mirrors in extreme ultraviolet source is one of the key techniques to improve throughput and cost performance of extreme ultraviolet lithography. Hydrogen radicals produced in hydrogen plasma that is induced by wideband extreme ultraviolet radiation are expected to be utilized for in situ tin contamination cleaning in extreme ultraviolet sources. In this Letter, we clarified absolute density and cleaning ability of the hydrogen radicals produced by intense extreme ultraviolet pulse through ground state population density measurement by laser-induced fluorescence technique. The experimentally obtained radical parameters coincided well with simulation results and collisional radiative model. It was found that the extreme ultraviolet induced plasma was in quasi-steady state with abundant amount of hydrogen radicals in ground state. Further, it was found that the in situ tin contamination cleaning in extreme ultraviolet lithography source would become more practical with increase in operational parameters, such as extreme ultraviolet emission intensity, gas pressure, and radical production cross section.
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