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Patent US8107055 - Substrate conveyance device and substrate conveyance method, exposure ... - Google Patents
A method of pattern forming includes forming a resist film on a substrate, transferring a pattern onto the resist film by an immersion lithography method using a liquid immersion fluid to form a latent image on the resist film, conducting a first inspection to inspect whether or not the liquid immersion...http://www.google.com/patents/US8107055?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8107055 - Substrate conveyance device and substrate conveyance method, exposure apparatus and exposure method, device manufacturing method
Publication number US8107055 B2
Application number US 11/889,288
Also published as EP1672681A1, EP1672681A4, EP1672681B1, EP1672681B8, US7995186, US8345216, US9097986, US9110381, US20060257553, US20070110916, US20070296940, US20110261330, US20130094006, WO2005036621A1
Publication number 11889288, 889288, US 8107055 B2, US 8107055B2, US-B2-8107055, US8107055 B2, US8107055B2
Inventors Atsushi Ohta, Takashi Horiuchi
Original Assignee Zao Nikon Co., Ltd., Nikon Corporation
Patent Citations (226), Non-Patent Citations (47), Classifications (14), Legal Events (1)
US 8107055 B2
13. The method according to claim 12, wherein an image of a surface of the substrate is obtained to detect the liquid immersion fluid during the first inspection.
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International Classification G03B27/32, H01L21/027, G03F7/20
Cooperative Classification G03B27/42, G03F7/7075, G03F7/2041, G03D3/00, G03F7/70341
European Classification G03B27/42, G03D3/00, G03F7/70F24, G03F7/70N6D