Patent ID: 7218380

Claim:
A system for manufacturing a device, comprising: means for patterning each of a plurality of beams using arrays of individually controllable elements; means for projecting the patterned beams onto a substrate; and means for displacing the substrate relative to the patterned beams, such that the patterned beams are scanned across the substrate in a predetermined scanning direction; and means for directing the patterned beams towards the substrate using an array of lenses arranged such that each lens directs a respective part of a respective patterned beam towards a respective target area on the substrate, means for arranging the projecting means in groups, such that each of the lenses in the arrays of lenses of different ones of the projecting means groups direct parts of different ones of the patterned beams to different areas of the substrate that are aligned in the scanning direction; and means for spacing the projecting means groups apart in the scanning direction, such that each of the projecting means groups scans the patterned beams across the areas of the substrate as the substrate and the projection systems are displaced relative to each other, the respective areas scanned by the patterned beams from the projecting means groups that are adjacent to each other in the scanning direction are contiguous.