Patent ID: 9694535
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: B29C,B82Y,G03F

Claim:
1. An imprint apparatus for forming a pattern of an imprint material on a plurality of areas of a substrate using a mold, the imprint apparatus comprising: a gas supply and recover mechanism configured to supply gas from a side of the mold toward the substrate and to recover the supplied gas at the mold side; a substrate holding unit configured to hold the substrate, the substrate holding unit having a chuck and a plate disposed surrounding the chuck with a gap region provided between an outer circumferential side of the chuck and an inner circumferential side of the plate, with a surface height of the plate leveled with a surface of the held substrate; and a gas recovery mechanism, including a plurality of suction ports each facing the gap region, configured to recover the gas entrapped in the gap region through at least one of the plurality of suction ports; and a control unit configured to control the gas recovery mechanism, wherein the control unit changes a suction port, among the plurality of suction ports, for recovering the gas, in accordance with a position of an area, among the plurality of areas of the substrate, to be imprint processed.