Patent ID: 8043657

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 at least the accelerating rotation or the rotation at the first number of rotations; a second step of thereafter deceleratingly rotating the substrate to a second number of rotations, and supplying the resist solution to the substrate during at least the decelerating rotation or 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, wherein the resist solution supplied in said second step is a resist solution lower in viscosity than the resist solution supplied in said first step.