Patent ID: 8587763

Claim:
A substrate processing system for performing a plurality of rounds of patterning on a film to be processed located at a same layer above a surface of a substrate, comprising: a thermal processing plate for mounting and thermally processing the substrate thereon in each of the rounds of patterning; and an aligning mechanism for aligning a position of the substrate with respect to said thermal processing plate when the substrate is mounted on said thermal processing plate in the thermal processing in each of second and subsequent rounds of patterning with a position of the substrate with respect to said thermal processing plate when the substrate is mounted on said thermal processing plate in the thermal processing in a first round of patterning, wherein said aligning mechanism includes a drive mechanism which adjusts the position of said thermal processing plate by rotating said processing plate in each of the second and subsequent rounds of patterning to rotationally align the position of the substrate with the position of the substrate in the first round of patterning.