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Patent US8064037 - Immersion exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method with no liquid ... - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inPatentsAn exposure apparatus that by irradiating an exposure light, via a projection optical system and a liquid, on a substrate placed on the image plane side of the projection optical system, exposes the substrate, the exposure apparatus includes: a liquid supply system that supplies the liquid onto the substrate...http://www.google.com/patents/US8064037?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8064037 - Immersion exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method with no liquid recovery during exposureAdvanced Patent SearchTry the new Google Patents, with machine-classified Google Scholar results, and Japanese and South Korean patents.Publication numberUS8064037 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 11/355,965Publication dateNov 22, 2011Filing dateFeb 17, 2006Priority dateAug 21, 2003Fee statusPaidAlso published asEP1662554A1, EP1662554A4, US20060139593, US20110211186, US20130128244, WO2005020299A1Publication number11355965, 355965, US 8064037 B2, US 8064037B2, US-B2-8064037, US8064037 B2, US8064037B2InventorsHiroyuki Nagasaka, Yuuki Ishii, Susumu MakinouchiOriginal AssigneeNikon CorporationExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (71), Non-Patent Citations (14), Referenced by (3), Classifications (9), Legal Events (3) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetImmersion exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method with no liquid recovery during exposure
US 8064037 B2Abstract
An exposure apparatus that by irradiating an exposure light, via a projection optical system and a liquid, on a substrate placed on the image plane side of the projection optical system, exposes the substrate, the exposure apparatus includes: a liquid supply system that supplies the liquid onto the substrate and a liquid recovery system that recovers the liquid having been supplied on the substrate. When the exposure light is being irradiated on the image plane side of the projection optical system, the liquid recovery system does not perform recovery of the liquid.
In the following, referring to the drawing, preferable embodiments of the present invention will be described. It should be noted, however, that the present invention is not limited only to the following embodiments, but the constituent elements of those embodiments may be appropriately combined.
The present embodiment will be described assuming, as an example, the case where as exposure apparatus EX, a scan type exposure apparatus (the so-called scanning stepper) in which while synchronously moving mask M and substrate P in mutually different directions (opposite directions) along the directions, the pattern formed on mask M is exposed onto substrate P is used. It is to be noted that there may be, depending on the structure of projection optical system PL, a case where mask M and substrate P are moved in the same direction. In the following description, it is assumed that the direction that coincides with optical axis AX of projection optical system PL is referred to as the Z-axis direction, that the synchronous movement direction (the scanning direction), in a plane perpendicular to the Z-axis direction, of mask M and substrate P is referred to as the X-axis direction, and that the direction perpendicular to the Z-direction and to the X-direction is referred to as the Y-direction (the non-scanning direction). It should be noted that a “substrate” referred to herein comprehends a semiconductor wafer over which a photoresist, a photosensitive material, is applied and that a “mask” comprehends a reticle on which a device patterns to be reduction projected onto a substrate is formed.
Here, controller CONT performs the recovery of liquid 1 by liquid recovery mechanism 20 after each completion of exposure of a predetermined number of shot areas. For example, controller CONT performs the recovery of liquid 1 in the periods after each completion of exposure of four shot areas among the plurality of shot areas S1-S20. In this case, the recovery of liquid 1 is performed after each completion of exposure of the shot areas S4, S8, S12, S16, and S20. Specifically, the recovery of liquid 1 is performed in a period between the end of exposure of shot area S4 (S8, S12, S16, S20) and the beginning of exposure of the next shot area S5 (S9, S13, S17). Of course, the predetermined number is not limited to “4,” but may be “1,” i.e., the recovery of liquid 1 may be performed for each one shot area. Alternatively, controller CONT may perform the recovery after completion of exposure of a predetermined shot area. For example, by prescribing that the recovery of liquid 1 is performed in a period after completion of exposure of the tenth shot area S10, controller CONT performs the recovery of liquid 1 in at least a partial period between the end of exposure of shot area S10 and the beginning of exposure of the next shot area S11. By doing so, the disadvantage that liquid 1 flows out to the outside of substrate P can prevented.
It is to be noted that while, in the above-described embodiment, flow path forming member 30 is formed by using three members, the number of members is not limited to “three.” Further, while, in the above-described embodiment, members 31-33 that form flow path forming member 30 are each a quadrangular, plate-shaped member, they may be circular, plate-shaped members or may be elliptical, plate-shaped members, elongated in the X-direction. Still further, the flow paths communicating with supply ports 13 and 14 and the flow paths communicating recovery ports 23A, 23B, 23C, and 23D may be formed in separate members, and the flow path for each port may be formed in each of separate members.
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