Patent ID: 8496991

Claim:
A method of supplying a solvent for a resist solution to a substrate to wet a front surface of the substrate with the solvent and then coating the substrate with the resist solution, said method comprising: a first step of acceleratingly rotating the substrate to a first number of rotations after supplying the solvent thereto, and supplying the resist solution to a central portion of the substrate during the accelerating rotation to the first number of rotations; immediately upon reaching the first number of rotations, initiating a second step of thereafter deceleratingly rotating the substrate to a second number of rotations while not supplying the solvent for the resist solution during the decelerating rotation from the first number of rotations to the second number of rotations, and after the number of rotations of the substrate reaches the second number of rotations, supplying the solvent for the resist solution to the substrate in the form of a liquid solvent during the rotation at the second number of rotations; and a third step of thereafter acceleratingly rotating the substrate to a third number of rotations higher than the second number of rotations, and rotating the substrate at the third number of rotations.