Patent ID: 11953825
Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An imprint apparatus that presses a pattern of an original plate against a photo-curable resin dropped onto a substrate, and transfers the pattern to the photo-curable resin by applying light, the apparatus comprising:
a dropping unit that drops the photo-curable resin onto a plurality of shot regions obtained by dividing the substrate into a plurality of sections;
an original plate supporting unit that contacts the pattern of the original plate to the photo-curable resin on the substrate;
a substrate supporting unit that supports the substrate and moves the substrate, a predetermined shot region of the substrate being moved to a dropping position of the dropping unit or a contacting position of the original plate; and
a processor including a counting unit that counts an order in which the photo-curable resin is dropwise for each of the plurality of shot regions,
wherein the dropping unit is controlled to drop the photo-curable resin onto the plurality of shot regions of the substrate sequentially before contacting the original plate to the photo-curable resin on any of the plurality of shot regions, and
the original plate supporting unit is controlled to contact the original plate to the photo-curable resin dropped onto the plurality of shot regions sequentially based on the order of a dropwise of the photo-curable resin to transfer the pattern to the resin, while operating the substrate supporting unit.