Patent ID: 9122149
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: B29C,B82Y,G03F

Abstract:
1. An imprint apparatus which cures a resin dispensed on a substrate while the resin and a pattern surface of a mold are in contact with each other, the mold having a lower surface, an upper surface, and a side surface connecting an outer edge of the lower surface and an outer edge of the upper surface, and the mold including a porous portion exposed to the side surface of the mold, the apparatus comprising: a supply portion configured to communicate only with the side surface of the mold to which the porous portion is exposed, to supply a gas only to the porous portion such that the gas passes through the porous portion and is exhausted to a space which the pattern surface of the mold faces; and a controller configured to control the supply portion to supply the gas to the space before the resin and the pattern surface of the mold are brought into contact with each other.