Patent ID: 8010221

Claim:
A cleaning apparatus for immersion light exposure, for cleaning a substrate before and/or after immersion light exposure to subject a resist film formed on a surface of the substrate to a light exposure process through a liquid, the cleaning apparatus comprising: a cleaning apparatus main body including components configured to perform a cleaning process on the substrate by use of a cleaning liquid; and a control section configured to control the components of the cleaning apparatus main body, wherein the control section is equipped with a non-transitory computer readable storage portion that stores a control program and stores relationships between values of one or more parameters and hardware and/or process conditions, to perform suitable cleaning for the values, the one or more parameters representing a surface state of a film formed on the substrate and including a contact angle of the film, the hardware and/or process conditions including a delivery rate of the cleaning liquid, and the control program causes the control section to fabricate a new process recipe with reference to the relationships in response to input of a specific value of the contact angle of the film formed on a target substrate, one of the relationships prescribing that with a decrease in the specific value of the contact angle of the film the delivery rate of the cleaning liquid is reduced to suppress a film formation of the cleaning liquid, such that the new process recipe contains hardware and/or process conditions corresponding to the specific value, and the control program causes the control section to control the cleaning apparatus main body to perform the cleaning process on the target substrate in accordance with the new process recipe.