Patent ID: 8717537

Claim:
An exposure apparatus that exposes a substrate with an energy beam via a projection optical system, the apparatus comprising: first and second tables, each of which is configured to mount a substrate thereon; a mark detection system that is arranged in a second area, which is different from a first area in which the projection optical system is arranged, and that is configured to detect a mark on the substrate held by either of the first and second tables; a drive system that has a first movable member that moves in the first area, and a second movable member that moves in the second area, and that moves a substrate mounted on one table of the first and second tables in the first area while the one table is held by the first movable member, and that moves a substrate mounted on another table of the first and second tables in the second area while the another table is held by the second movable member; and a controller configured to control the drive system to drive the one table held by the first movable member and to drive the another table held by the second movable member so that the another table is moved from the second movable member to the first movable member so that the another table is held by the first movable member in place of the one table.